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A NEW INVENTION • One of Napoleon’s biggest problems during war was food. No matter how much food his soldiers took with them, it spoiled. Finally, Napoleon offered a prize to anyone who could invent a way to preserve food.

• Nicholas Appert had grown up working in his father’s wine cellars. He was intrigued with the idea that wine would never go bad if it was bottled correctly. He wondered what would happen to other foods if they were bottled. He tried soups and stews, then fruits and vegetables and milk. When the bottles were sterilized, filled, corked, and heated, the results were excellent.

• He took his discovery to Napoleon, and was awarded 12,000 francs. Appert had invented canning, although it was years before cans were used instead of bottles. It was years after that before the can opener was invented. Before that, it took a hammer and chisel to open a can. In fact, some people believe that the bayonet (invented in the French town of Bayonne) was developed not to spear people, but merely to open cans!

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HEALTH PAGE TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Keith Roach, M.D.

BMI Not a Total Picture of Health --DEAR DR. ROACH: About seven years ago, my blood pressure was high, and I was overweight and in a stressful job.

I quit the job, my blood pressure went down, and I lost over 40 pounds. I have kept the weight off all these years. I work part time, standing on my feet about 25 hours a week. My doctor has been happy with me. At my last appointment, I was told my BMI is too high and that I am obese.

Where did this “BMI” come from? I am 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weigh 194 pounds. I am a large-framed woman (I delivered 12-pound babies through NATURAL childbirth!). Now I feel like I should forget it and go back to eating what I want, when I want! -- P.S. ANSWER: BMI, the body mass index, is a way of determining obesity by standardizing weight for people of different heights. It is equal to weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared. BMI predicts the development of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and even overall mortality rates moderately well. It is certainly not a perfect measurement. Someone whose BMI is obese (over 30) might have very little body fat; he or she might be very muscular or have larger bones than another person of the same height.

Some physicians measure waist circumference, since that looks at abdominal fat, and research shows that using both measurements gives a more complete picture of health.

Personally, I congratulate you for getting and keeping off 40 pounds, and think you made a wise investment in your health by finding a less-stressful job. Your BMI is 31, just in the “obese” range. However, women of your BMI but whose waist circumference is less than 31.5 inches (80cm) have a much lower risk of medical complications later.

By the way, having babies that large does indicate an increased risk for Type 2 diabetes later in life. Your doctor hopefully is checking you periodically. Getting regular exercise and eating a good diet reduces your risk for Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, so please don’t get frustrated by this single, incomplete measure of your health. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: Last night I washed my face with soap and water. I toweled dry and saw blood dripping from the side of my nose. I figured I must have scrubbed too hard and opened a pore. This pore bled and bled for over an hour before I used styptic powder. That stopped the bleeding instantly. Now I’m afraid to wash that area, as it may start bleeding again. I’m 61. I don’t take any medication except a baby aspirin every night, and Aleve when my arthritis kicks up. Is this common? -- J.R. ANSWER: No, that isn’t common. It makes me concerned that the pore you think is bleeding actually may be a subtle or early skin condition predisposed to bleeding. The ones I am most concerned about are basal cell and squamous cell cancers. See a dermatologist and get it examined.

Aspirin and naproxen (Aleve) do make bleeding more likely, but I still think you should get it looked at. *** 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) 2016 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

MORE BOTTLE FACTS • Before bottle caps were invented, bottles were sealed with corks. Often bottles would blow their tops if the substance inside was fizzy such as wine or beer. William Painter – a prolific inventor – solved the problem by inventing the ‘crown’ bottle cap, the design still used today. It is called the crown cap because it looks like a tiny crown. A year later, Painter also invented the bottle opener.

• Milk was originally sold by the dipperful from open cans. Henry Thatcher was standing in line one day in 1883 to buy some milk. The little girl ahead of him accidentally dropped her filthy rag doll into the open can of milk. The milk man fished the doll out, then turned to Mr. Thatcher to serve him. Thatcher decided he didn’t need any milk that day after all. The following year he patented the first milk bottle with a sanitary seal. Soon all milk was sold in bottles.

• An official in the Coca-Cola company wanted the design of the bottles to be so distinctive that a bottle could be recognized in the dark, or if it was broken.

In 1913 the prototype of the shapely bottle we still use was introduced. It was patterned after a cola nut: bulging at the sides with ridges.

• Early soda pop bottlers had trouble finding bottles that wouldn’t explode. They had to wait for heavy mass produced bottles to be invented.

• A man named Colonel Taylor wanted to raise the popularity of his bourbon, named Old Taylor. He hired men to collect empty bottles of Old Taylor, 14 and shipped three freight car Sheridan loads to New York City. AnothGood Health Emporium Leather er crew set up the empty botOutfitters • tles on mantels and shelves in bars, restaurants, and clubs all across town. Having rows of Werco Ave. empties gave the impression the Old Taylor was the most • popular drink in the town, and Firestone Complete New Yorkers began to order.

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PLASTIC • In the mid-1970s, Portugal overcut their cork oak forests and failed to replant. The result was a worldwide cork shortage, leading to the development of plastic stoppers for wine bottles.

• Plastic bottles were first used commercially in 1947 but did not become widespread in the industry until polyethylene (PET) was invented in the 1960s. Manufacturers flocked to plastic not only because it weighs less than glass thereby saving on shipping costs, but also because it doesn’t shatter during shipping.

• In 1976, the average American consumed 1.5 gallons (2.6 l) of bottled water each year. By 2008, the number had grown to about 30 gallons (113 l) of bottled water per person in the U.S. It takes about 2 quarts (1.9 l) of water to produce a single plastic bottle.

• In the U.S., 24% of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina or Coke’s Dasani. Both brands are bottled, purified municipal tap water.

LEAD CRYSTAL • Lead crystal is valued because of its brilliancy and clarity. However, when beverages are stored in lead crystal bottles, glasses, or decanters, the lead passes into the liquid and then into the bloodstream of the consumer. Many people assume that if you store your beverage in the leaded container only for the duration of the dinner, no harm will be done. Studies have shown that some room-temperature liquids can increase from 1 microgram of lead per liter to 166 micrograms per liter in just 15 minutes. (The EPA guidelines for water are 50 micrograms per liter, with recent recommendations for lowering it to 20.) Wine will double its lead content in only an hour.

ANCIENT BOTTLES • In 1954, 18 liquor bottles were salvaged from a ship that had gone down 250 years earlier off the English coast. The bottles were good as new, but the corks had deteriorated and there was no longer any liquor in the bottles.

OOPS… • In 1982 a Coca-Cola bottler in Tennessee began a new contest, whereby consumers had to spell out “home run” with letters in the bottle tops to win $100,000. The odds were supposed to be a million to one because very few bottle caps with the letter R were supposed to be produced. However, due to an error at the bottling plant, 18,000 extra Rs went out and people started popping up all over wanting their money. The bottler backed out of the contest.

• In 1945, First Lady Bess Truman was asked to christen a new plane, but someone forgot to score the champagne bottle so it would shatter. When she hit the plane with the bottle, it dented the plane but the bottle remained intact. Again and again she swung the bottle, but succeeded only in enlarging the dent. Finally a workman grabbed the bottle, held it against the plane, and smashed it with his wrench, drenching Bess.

• The Heublein food company once came out with an upscale TV dinner that came with a small bottle of wine which was supposed to be poured on the food before cooking. People drank the wine instead of cooking with it and the product flopped.

• Minor league umpire Steamboat Johnson once noted, “I have rendered about one million decisions since I began umpiring. Something like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about 20 ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans’ throwing.”

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PET OF THE WEEK

Tiger is our cat of the week at Second Chance Sheridan Cat Rescue! Tiger is a handsome young male cat. He is very sweet and playful and would love a nice family to adopt him! For more information about Tiger or any other adoptable cat, please call 307-461-9555 or visit http://sheridancatrescue.org.

PAW’S CORNER

By Sam Mazzotta

MESSAGES IN BOTTLES • Around 300 B.C. Greek philosopher Theophrastus used floating bottles to prove that the Mediterranean receives most of its water from the Atlantic.

• Albert, Prince of Monaco, asked ship captains to drop bottles into the sea at certain spots to research currents. Over 1,700 bottles were dropped between 1885 and 1888, and 227 of them were returned in the next 10 years.

• An ocean survey ship called the Pioneer dropped 22,000 bottles into the ocean in 1964, each containing information on where and when it was tossed overboard. Forms enclosed explained the purpose of the bottle and asked the finder— in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese— to return the form and information about where it was found to the project’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The survey reported an average return rate of 8% and most were found between nine months and two years after they were released.

• Miami’s sewage treatment facilities consisted of a plant that piped the raw sewage into the ocean about 2 miles from shore. Officials felt that winds and tides would disperse the mess harmlessly.

Environmental activists thought differently and set out to prove it. They took a boat to the end of the pipe, and released 700 watertight bottles. Inside each bottle was a note and a mail-in card. The note said, “This card was placed in a drift bottle released directly over the end of the Miami Beach sewer outfall which dumps raw, untreated sewage into the ocean. This drift bottle was found by (name, address). It was found (location). This drift bottle was moved by the same wind and currents that move the raw sewage. This is where Miami’s sewage goes.” 12 days later, 70 of the cards had been received from points along the coast of Florida. (continued on last page)

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Tank Tapping Freaks Out Fish --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My mom said not to tap on the side of the fish tank because it scares them. I’m not tapping very hard, so why would it bother them? -- Tanner in Dallas DEAR TANNER: Imagine this: Your room has a big glass wall, and strange, scary creatures come up to the glass all day long and stare at you. Imagine also that the wall has amplifiers in it so that every time someone knocks on the glass, the sound is so loud it puts a lot of pressure on your ears.

If that happened to you several times a day, every day, you’d be pretty stressed out. Especially if it happens when you’re trying to sleep or rest.

For fish, which tend to react badly when their environment changes, tank tappers can really cause problems. Because they’re constantly being startled and scared, their immune systems weaken and they become vulnerable to diseases they can normally fight off. Some fish have been reported to try and escape from a tank they’re constantly being scared in by jumping out of it. That doesn’t usually work out well for the fish.

The best way to enjoy an aquarium full of fish is to, well ... just watch them. Most fish will shy away if you approach the tank, but if you hold still, they will begin to swim past you and you’ll get a close look at them.

If they’re holding still or not swimming fast, don’t tap the tank -- just let them be.

Send your questions or pet tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Amazing Animals GROUNDHOGS • Groundhogs are among the few animals that are true hibernators. They fatten up during spring, summer, and fall, then retreat to their dens for the coldest months of the year. During hibernation, their normal body temperature falls to just above freezing.

The heart rate drops from 80 beats per minute to five. Breathing slows from 16 breaths per minute to about two. During the 150 days or so that they go without eating, a groundhog will lose about 25% of its body weight.

• In early February the male groundhogs will emerge from their dens in order to find a mate. After mating, the two will go their separate ways, because groundhogs are not social animals aside from the mother raising the young.

• During summer months, a groundhog may eat more than a pound of vegetation per day, which would be equivalent to a typical man eating a 15-pound (7 kg) steak. Because so much of the groundhog’s diet involves crunching vegetation, its teeth grow at the rate of nearly an inch every four months. When aligned correctly, the teeth grind each other down. If the alignment is off, they keep on growing like tusks, making it difficult for the woodchuck to eat. In extreme cases, the upper incisors can even pierce the lower jaw.

• Groundhogs are the largest members of the squirrel family which includes chipmunks, prairie dogs, and marmots. There are 14 separate species of groundhogs, which are also called woodchucks.

• Groundhogs like to live at the margins of the forest, so they are one of the few species that benefited from the spread of civilization in the U.S. As settlers cleared more fields and cut more forests, their population grew.

• Though they are noted for the prodigious underground tunnels they build, they are also adept at swimming and climbing trees, which helps them escape predators. A groundhog can move as much as 700 pounds (317 kg) of dirt to create its burrow which usually has several entrances. Groundhog burrows are beneficial because they offer shelter to other ground-dwelling animals while also keeping the earth from becoming compacted.

• Although they are also called woodchucks, they do not usually eat wood, so we’ll never know how much wood a woodchuck can chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

• It was a habit for Europeans to look for signs of spring, and animals such as badgers, bears, and hedgehogs emerging from dens was always noted. When Germans immigrated to Pennsylvania, they continued the practice, watching for the emergence of groundhogs to indicate the coming of spring.

• In 1887, a newspaper editor in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, heard about a group of local hunters who went out every February in search of groundhogs. They held a picnic every year at Gobbler’s Knob. The editor wrote about the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, and Groundhog’s Day was born.

• The folklore holds that if a groundhog sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter will follow. There is a kernel of truth here, for if it’s a clear cloudless day, it’s bound to be cold because there is no insulating cloud cover. However, most of the groundhog’s territory covers colder regions that usually have six more weeks of winter regardless of whether there’s a shadow or not. And statisticians estimate that the groundhog’s predictions are correct only 39% of the time.

Flipping a coin would be more accurate.

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SALOME’S STARS--ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A gracious Lamb can learn more about a problemfilled situation than one who is openly suspicious of what could be happening. A friend might offer some well-directed advice.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Getting adjusted to an unexpected change might be difficult for the Bovine who prefers things to go according to plan. But help could come from a most welcome source.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This could be a good time to get a head start on those career-related plans. The sooner you check out the pluses and minuses, the sooner you can act on your information.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A personal situation you thought would no longer present a problem suddenly could produce some surprises. Try to sort things out with the help of trusted colleagues.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) An upcoming move holds both anticipation and anxiety for Leos and Leonas who have some big decisions to make. Advice is plentiful, but it’s up to you to decide which way you want to go.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Someone from a previous project could provide valuable guidance on how to handle a current problem, especially where it might involve a legal matter.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A business situation presents some unexpected complications. But rather than try to handle them all at once, it would be best to deal with them one at a time.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You just might get what you want, despite the odds against it. In any event, be sure to thank all those people involved who believed in you and went to bat for you.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Before you even hint at an accusation, remember that you’ll have to prove what you say. So be sure you have what you need to back up your comments.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A romantic situation takes an unexpected turn that favors some Sea Goats, but causes others to reassess how they’ve been handling the relationship.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A surprise turn of events could unsettle the Water Bearer. But it also might help open up an entirely different way of working out an important matter.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A smoothly running operation could bump up against an obstacle. This is where your ability to assess situations and make adjustments can restore things to normal.

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MESSAGES IN BOTTLES (cont’d) • In 1875, the crew of the Canadian ship Lennie staged a mutiny, murdering all officers on board except for a steward who was needed to navigate the ship to Spain.

He headed the ship to France, telling them it was Spain, while periodically dropping bottles overboard that told the whole story. The French authorities were waiting when they arrived in France.

• Daisy Alexander inherited the Singer sewing machine fortune. She couldn’t decide what to do with her money when she died, so she wrote out her will, sealed it in a bottle, and tossed it in the River Thames in London. The will gave 50% of her fortune to whoever found the bottle. She died 2 years later. Ten years after her death, an unemployed restaurant worker named Jack Wurm found the bottle on the beach at San Francisco.He received over $6 million. Daisy’s lawyer got the other half of the fortune.

• A British sailor in the 1800s tossed a marriage proposal overboard into waters off of Britain as his ship got underway for India. On the return journey he was walking along the beach in Egypt when he found and retrieved his own bottled proposal of marriage.

• Swedish sailor Åke Viking dropped a bottle overboard in 1958, asking any pretty girl who found it to write to him. Two years later, a Sicilian fisherman found it and gave it to his daughter, Paolina, as a joke. She wrote to Åke. They were married in Sicily.

• The longest it has ever taken a message in a bottle to be discovered is 108 years.

In 1906, the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom dropped more than 1,000 bottles into the North Sea with instructions to return any bottles found to the institute with information about where they had been picked up. In 2015 a tourist found one of the bottles and dutifully returned it to the address listed.

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