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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Keith Roach, M.D. No Harm in Taking Nitro for Angina DEAR DR. ROACH: Could you write about the effect that angina, stopped quickly by nitro, has on one’s system? My husband takes Imdur (30 mg) twice a day to control angina, although he still experiences it several times a week, necessitating a nitroglycerin pill. Sometimes angina comes from exertion, such as climbing stairs a few times or doing home-maintenance chores. He is 89 and in relatively good health. He has had bypass surgery and several catheterizations, with eight stents. He doesn’t need a cane or use oxygen. His cardiologist suggested EECP, which my KXVEDQG GRHV QRW ZDQW WR HQGXUH EHOLHYLQJ WKH PHGLFLQHV DUH ZRUNLQJ ÂżQH His quality of life is good -- angina does not interfere with going out and enjoying himself. Is he taking angina too lightly because he can stop it by popping a nitro? -- M.W. ANSWER: Angina pectoris literally means “chest pain,â€? but in my experience people with angina due to blockages in the arteries of the heart are more likely to complain of pressure or tightness than actual pain. Angina occurs when the heart’s demand for blood oxygen exceeds the supply. This usually means during exercise. ,I WKH EORRG VXSSO\ LV Âż[HG GXH WR D EORFNDJH LQ WKH KHDUW WKH KHDUW VLPSO\ FDQÂśW JHW enough oxygen above a certain level of exercise. If the person with angina stops exercising, the demand for oxygen goes back down below what can be supplied, and the angina goes away. Stable angina is associated with a low risk for heart attack. Medications like isosorbide (Imdur) and nitroglycerine work by dilating the blood ves-
sels in order to increase supply. These medicines also dilate veins, which reduces the demands on the heart. Stents are designed to keep blockages open. Nonetheless, there are many people who continue to have angina despite what can be done with medicine and stents. EECP (enhanced external counterpulsation) is a new technique. Cuffs wrapped around the legs are synchronized with the EKG and squeeze strongly when the heart is at rest. This forces blood backward through the arteries and into the blood vessels of the heart. It may work by making some blood vessels larger, but the exact mechanism isn’t clear. EECP is used for people with stable angina. It takes 35 hours RI ((&3 RYHU IRXU WR VHYHQ ZHHNV WR JHW EHQH¿WV DQG DERXW SHUFHQW RI SHRSOH had improvement from severe angina to mild or none. EECP is a big investment of time, and is usually reserved for people whose angina is more disabling than your husband’s. $W \RXU KXVEDQG FHUWDLQO\ LV HQWLWOHG WR VD\ KH LV GRLQJ ¿QH WKH ZD\ KH LV DQG QRW wanting further treatments. Coronary artery disease can go unnoticed until you have a heart attack. The booklet on the disease explains its causes, symptoms (such as angina) and treatment. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 101W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, )/ (QFORVH D FKHFN RU PRQH\ RUGHU QR FDVK IRU 8 6 &DQDGD ZLWK the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www. rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved
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• In Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper, the salt container next to Judas is overturned, signifying bad luck. • Salt is colorless, like snow. It only appears to be white because it scatters light. WORD WIZARD • "Wich" was the word indicating a town where salt was produced such as Greenwich, Northwich, and even Sandwich, which was a place before it was a food. •The word "salt" probably comes from the name of the town Es-Salt, which was once a capital city close to the Dead Sea. It is also the origin of words like "salami" and "salad." The words "war" and "peace" originate from the ancient Arabic words for salt and bread, perhaps because the first wars were fought over these two commodities. • Much of human society has been built around salt, which has often served as the cornerstone of economy. The Roman government used to pay its soldiers in salt, and our word ‘salary’ comes from the Roman word for salt. Any worker who didn't work hard was "not worth his salt." WHY IS THE SEA SALTY? • Seas are salty because water dissolves the natural salts in the soils and rocks it flows through on the way to the ocean. Over the eons as water has continually evaporated from the oceans, the salts have been left behind. The concentration builds up year after year. The oceans are 3.5 percent salt. • The Dead Sea, which, at 1,300 feet (396 m) below sea level is the lowest place on the planet, has plenty of fresh water coming in but not a single place where water can go out. Because the rate of evaporation is so high, all the incoming minerals are left behind. In some spots the Dead Sea is 23% salt which is too salty to support any kind of life. By comparison, the Great Salt Lake in Utah is about 20% salt-- so salty that it never completely freezes over.
• About 97% of Earth's water is in the form of salty seawater. • When evaporated, 150 gallons (567 l) of seawater will yield 35 lbs. (15.8 kg) of salt. MORE SALTY FACTS • There is enough salt in the seas to cover all the continents to a depth of 500 feet (152 m). • The first patent ever issued in America was for a process to recover salt from sea water. • Where salt seas became land-locked and dried up, large strata of rock salt were left, which are good places for salt mines. One of the largest salt plants in the U.S. is located in Texas City, where there's a salt deposit that's 1.5 miles wide (2.4 km) and over three miles (4.8 km) thick. There's enough salt in this one location to supply the world's needs for some 20,000 years. • The Erie Canal was built with funds raised from a 12% tax placed on American salt and, once built, was used to carry heavy loads of salt from the factories in New York. DON'T DRINK SEA WATER • Your kidneys are responsible for making sure the ratio of salt to water in the bloodstream stays at the optimum level. If you drink salt water while stranded on a raft in the ocean, the level of salt in the bloodstream skyrockets. The kidneys now work overtime to add water to the blood in order to return things to normal. Sea water is three times saltier than urine, so for every cup of sea water that is drunk, the body has to make three cups of urine to flush the salt out of the body. This robs your body tissues of their natural supply of water, and you become dehydrated much faster than if you had not drunk the salt water. FAST FACT • Some species of sea birds have a gland between their eyes that filters salt from seawater that the bird drinks and empties it out of the beak. Some birds, like the albatross, cannot drink fresh water or they suffer from salt deficiency as the salt continues to pour out of the gland. The camel is also adapted for drinking brackish salt water. Pure water may intoxicate the animal.
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were shown to have a higher death rate than those with a normal level of salt in their bodies. • Pound for pound, babies have almost twothirds more sodium and twice as much chloride as adults. In 1980, a brand of soy-based baby formula jumped on the "low-salt" bandwagon and began offering a new low sodium formula. Within a few months, 34 cases of chloride deficiency in babies were reported. The babies were losing weight, sluggish, and stunted because they were not getting enough sodium chloride. They recovered after being switched to a different formula, and the baby food company put salt back in its recipes. IT'S A FACT
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• Joy Morton was born in 1855 in Nebraska City, Nebraska. After falling ill with spinal meningitis at the age of 18, he decided to get a job entailing hard physical labor in an outdoor setting in order to regain his strength. He subsequently went to work for the railroad, working throughout Illinois. He eventually found a job working for E.I. Wheeler's salt manufacturing company in Chicago. • He became a partner in the business in 1886 when he invested $10,000 in order to move salt westward by hauling it on barges across the Great Lakes. When Wheeler died, Morton bought the company. When his brother and son joined the company, it was renamed Morton Salt Company. It was the only salt company in the nation at the time and it is still remains the #1 salt producer in North America. • Morton was responsible for two innovations in salt. Iodine is essential for the thyroid gland to work properly. Without iodine, the thyroid swells, sometimes enormously, and IRUPV D JRLWHU 3HRSOH VXIIHULQJ IURP LRGLQH GH¿FLHQF\ suffer from tremors, fatigue, nausea, and anemia. Iodine is usually present in the soil and the water. But in places where it's not, goiters became common. In 1924, almost 66% of school children in the Lake Superior school districts had goiters. Meantime, goiters were almost unheard of along the Mississippi River, where the water has up to 18,000 times as much natural iodine as Lake Superior. $IWHU EHLQJ DSSURDFKHG E\ KHDOWK RI¿FLDOV 0RUWRQ EHFDPH WKH ¿UVW FRPSDQ\ WR DGG LRGLQH WR LWV VDOW LQ PLQXVFXOH amounts. Health authorities correctly surmised that salt was the single most universally consumed food item, and it’s HDV\ WR DGG LRGLQH WR VDOW 2QH ¿IWK RI D SRXQG RI LRGLQH LV enough to treat an entire ton of salt. • As a result, between 1924 and 1928, the goiters of Michigan - and everywhere else - virtually disappeared. Today, over half of all table salt sold is iodized. Sea salt has no iodine added because it contains iodine naturally. • The other innovation Morton invented was to add an anticaking element to salt. In the 1800s, ground-up salt tended to form clumps in humid weather. Many salt shakers were made that tried to combat this using various means. Some had agitators inside to break up lumps; some had special pockets for moisture-absorbing solutions. Morton began adding magnesium carbonate to salt which prevented it from clumping up even in the rainiest environments. This inspired their slogan (swiped from the Bible, and suggested by Morton's son) "When it rains, it pours" and the famous logo of the little girl with the big umbrella. In a poll, 90% of housewives recognized the slogan. After the clumping problem was solved, the salt shaker became standard issue. • In 1903, the Morton warehouse in South Chicago contained over 200,000 tons of salt - the world's largest stock XQGHU D VLQJOH URRI 1R RQH NQRZV ZKDW VWDUWHG WKH ¿UH but the entire compound was in ruins by the time it was out. Where once there were piles of pure white salt, now there were piles of blackened salt, covered with ashes and carbon. Joy Morton was undaunted. Charcoal makes a good additive in stock food, and soon farmers were buying up the new product: Morton's special "charcoal blend." The entire stock of salt was sold. • In the 1930s the Morton Co. expanded into other chemical products, and in 1982 merged with the Thiokol Corp. to form Morton-Thiokol. Morton now sells around 400 different kinds of salt-based products.
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The Skins Game --If you ever need to look up the phrase in a dictionary, there are many available on the Internet. There is Dictionary.com, Merriamwebster.com, the Urban dictionary, even Wikipedia operates as a dictionary in some respects. Either way, I can save you, dear reader, a lot of time by MXVW WHOOLQJ \RX KHUH 7KH WH[WERRN GHÂżQLWLRQ RI ÂłZDVWLQJ your timeâ€? is debating the Washington Redskins’ nickname with a Redskins fan at a chain pizzeria in Alexandria, Virginia. For one thing, the argument is over before it even starts. Here’s a quick multi-question diagnostic test for anyone wanting to play along at home: 1. Are you a Native American? 2. If yes, are you offended by the term “Redskin?â€? 3. If no, are you the owner of the team who has vowed to never change its name? 4. If yes, are you of Jewish heritage and do you sue people for libel, claiming to be outraged over anti-Semitic attacks? 5. If yes, you are Dan Snyder? And really, the excuse that you will have to change a few T-shirts and that it will cost too much is wearing just about as thin as the burgundy DQG JROG QRQ RIÂżFLDO PXFK WRR VQXJ IRU Âł5HGVNLQV Hog Heaven 1995â€? T-shirt the guy defending the Redskins nickname is wearing at the chain pizzeria. Louis C.K. makes the correct observation that late in the 15th century, a bunch of dudes took a boat ride from Europe and thought they landed in India. “You guys are Indians, right?â€? they asked. “No,â€? the natives replied. “We’re like, totally different people.â€? Armed with that knowledge, six centuries later, not only do we continue to persist in calling the indigenous people of this continent names more suited for the peoples who live on a sub-continent bordering THE INDIAN OCEAN, but in our nation’s capital, we use the slur variation of their name as a mascot. And this isn’t about the guy who lives in his parent’s EDVHPHQW ZKR FRPHV XS IRU DLU ORQJ HQRXJK WR Ă€LUW ZLWK the bartendress and defend his beloved team’s honor over a personal deep dish. Nor is this an opportunity for somebody to spout some ridiculous nonsense about political correctness run amok, and that’s why we need to vote for a guy who used to own the New Jersey Generals. For one thing, I agree. Political correctness is kind of anti-productive at times. Why should we be tiptoeing around the tulips of somebody’s idiocy just because we DUH DIUDLG RI D ÂżJKW" Change the name. I don’t care if you grew up with a bunch of John Riggins posters on your walls. The Native Americans don’t like the name. They’re offended. That should supersede your love of Mark Rypien and Joe Theisman jerseys. Change the name. Times are different now. O.J. Simpson is a killer; Bill Cosby is a serial rapist; the guy who used to be on the Wheaties box is now a girl, and he’s against gay marriage; and the guy who lost weight eating subs is a pedophile. We’re talking about a football team, not genocide or bulleWLQ ERDUGV LQ KLJK VFKRRO RU \RXU IDYRULWH Ă€DYRU RI SXGGLQJ pops. We’re talking about a national embarrassment in our nation’s capital (if we were to relocate our capital to Landover, Maryland) that extends well past the team’s SLWLIXO SHUIRUPDQFHV RQ WKH ÂżHOG \HDU LQ DQG \HDU RXW Change the name. It’s time. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey.
• On Oct. 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park in California, home of Half Dome and giant sequoia trees. The act paved the way for generations of hikers, campers and nature lovers, along with countless “Don’t Feed the Bearsâ€? signs. • On Oct. 2, 1948, the first American road race since World War II takes place in Watkins Glen, New York. The New York Central railroad agreed to suspend train service for the afternoon so that the drivers could cross the tracks safely. • On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean is killed in California when his Porsche hits a sedan. Rumor has it that Dean’s car was cursed. After the accident, the car rolled off the back of a truck and crushed the legs of a mechanic. When the parts were sold, the engine, transmission and tires were all transplanted into cars that were subsequently involved in deadly crashes. • On Sept. 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park, Red Sox star Ted Williams homers in the final at-bat of his 21-year career. After being booed by Red Sox fans early in his career, Williams swore never to tip his cap to the Boston fans. He never did. • On Oct. 4, 1970, singer Janis Joplin dies of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27. Joplin, who had a No. 1 hit with “Piece of My Heart,â€? was discovered in her Los Angeles hotel room after failing to show for a recording session. • On Sept. 29, 1982, cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in Chicago, leading to a nationwide recall. The culprit was never caught, but the mass murder led to new tamper-proof medicine containers. • On Oct. 3, 1990, less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as “Unity Day.â€? Germany had been divided since 1945. Š 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• According to the legend, Lord Sandys of England spent several years living in India. Around 1835 he returned home to England, bringing with him the recipe for a sauce that he liked which was popular in India. He gave the recipe to two druggists named John Lea and William Perrins. • John Lea and William Perrins were so impressed by Sandys’ ravings about how good it was JRLQJ WR WDVWH WKDW WKH\ PL[HG XS D IHZ EDUUHOV RI LW KRSLQJ WR PDNH D ELJ SURÂżW E\ VHOOLQJ WKH excess to their customers. But when they tasted it, they found it so awful that they stored the barrels in the basement and forgot about them. • A few years later, the barrels were re-discovered while the basement was being cleaned out. Before throwing it out, they tasted it again. After aging for two years, the sauce had fermented, GHYHORSLQJ D QHZ Ă€DYRU WKDW ZDV DQ LQVWDQW KLW 7KH\ ZHQW LQWR EXVLQHVV UHOHDVLQJ WKH QHZ product in 1838. • When salesmen employed by Lea and Perrins convinced British passenger ships to put bottles of the sauce on their dining room tables, its popularity spread worldwide. • Today the recipe includes anchovies, soybeans, vinegar, garlic, shallots, and molasses, which are blended and then aged two years. The sauce was named after the town where the druggists lived, and is still one of the world’s most popular sauces, used in everything from meats to mixed drinks. What is it? Lea & Perrins created Worcestershire Sauce, often called Worcester Sauce. (The town was Worcester and ‘shire’ means ‘county.’)
QUICK QUIZ: SAUCE #2 ‡ 2II WKH FRDVW RI /RXLVLDQD WKHUHœV D SODFH FDOOHG $YHU\ ,VODQG $ IDPLO\ QDPHG 0F,OKHQQ\ RZQHG WKH LVODQG DQG UDQ WKH QDWLRQœV ¿UVW VXFFHVVIXO VDOW PLQH WKHUH • In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Union troops invaded the area. They needed salt to preserve their meat, so they took over the island. Mr. McIlhenny and KLV IDPLO\ ÀHG WR 7H[DV • When they returned after the war, they found the salt factory and the plantation ruined. All that was left was a crop of hot peppers, which the soldiers had no WDVWH IRU 7KH SHSSHUV ZHUH SDUWLFXODUO\ KRW EHFDXVH WKH VRLO ZDV VR VDOW\ 0F,OKHQQ\ ZDV GHWHUPLQHG WR PDNH D SUR¿W IURP WKH SHSSHUV VR KH EHJDQ H[SHULmenting. He devised a new sauce using his peppers combined with the island’s salt, along with vinegar and spices. He named it after a river in Mexico simply because he liked the word. • After pouring it into empty cologne bottles, he sent samples to wholesalers. The typical cuisine of the Southern U.S. tended to be bland, but people found that MXVW D IHZ GURSV RI 0F,OKHQQ\œV VDXFH VSLFHG WKLQJV XS ,Q KH VROG ERWWOHV RI WKH VDXFH ,Q KH VROG RYHU 7ZR \HDUV ODWHU GHPDQG ZDV VR great he had to open a London branch. • Today McIhenny’s factories on Avery Island produce 200,000 to 300,000 bottles of this sauce each day, and it’s sold worldwide. What sauce is it? TABASCO FACTS • Tabasco should be stored in a cool dark place but does not need to be refrigerated. • Tabasco sauce may change color over time, growing darker with exposure to heat and light, but that doesn’t affect the taste. ‡ 7DEDVFR KDV D VKHOI OLIH RI DERXW ¿YH \HDUV ‡ $ WHDVSRRQ IXOO RI 7DEDVFR KDV ]HUR FDORULHV ‡ $ PD[LPXP RI DERXW ERWWOHV RI 7DEDVFR FDQ EH WXUQHG RXW HYHU\ VLQJOH GD\
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