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• Consider that the average adult travels around 1,000 miles a year on foot, taking about 10,000 steps per day.

A typical 70-year-old human will have walked a distance equivalent to going around the circumference of the earth four times. The feet strike the ground 17,000 times in a 20 mile marathon run, but even a mile of gentle walking subjects the feet to about 80 tons of weight. Feet must be sturdy.

• Although 98% of us are born with healthy feet, 80 out of 100 Americans develop foot problems during their lifetime.

At any given moment, about 30 million Americans suffer from foot problems, ranging from corns and ingrown nails to club feet and fallen arches.

• High heels prevent the ankles from absorbing their normal share of the force of walking, shunting it instead to the toes. A three-inch heel puts more than seven times the pressure on the forefoot than a flat shoe. This promotes many foot ailments such as bunions, hammer toes, and neuroma, which is a painful thickening of the nerve that connects the toes. A study of 3,000 surgeries performed on the forefoot found that 87% of the bunion surgeries, 81% of hammer toe surgeries, and 89% of the neuroma surgeries were done on women’s feet.

• High heels also affect the knees. A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet showed that high heels cause strain and pressure on the joint that joins the kneecap and the underlying thigh bone. The rotational forces on the inner part of the knee joint were 23 percent higher when women participating in the study walked in heels than when they walked barefoot.

• Surprisingly, the big toe has only two bones, while the rest of the toes have three. Although nearly every bone in the body has an official name, one exception is the toe bones. They are known only as “metatarsal digits #1-5.”

A fourth-year medical student at Yale decided to undo the injustice by bestowing names on the toes. He called them porcellus fori, porcellus domi, porcellus carnivorus, porcellus nonvoratus, and porcellus plorans domun. In Latin, these names translate as little pig at market, baby pig at home, meat-eating piglet, small pig that has not eaten, and piggy crying all the way home. Some orthopedic surgeons have picked up his names, but doctors have not yet gone hog wild over the idea.

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• Not surprisingly, the place on the body where the skin is thickest is the heel of the foot, where it’s about 1/16th of an inch thick. Compare that to the thinnest skin on the body— the eyelids— at 2/1000 of an inch. Although the heel is the area on the body that is least sensitive to pain, it’s also the sweatiest area. The 125,000 sweat glands in a single foot can excrete as much as half a pint of sweat per day. Research done at the University of Miami centered on foot odor. How does a research team study foot odor?

First you get a bunch of volunteers to sit with their feet in plastic bags. Then you have the laboratory staff sniff the feet. They discovered that people with foot odor had large numbers of a certain bacteria on their bodies— the same type of bacteria found in Limburger cheese. They also discovered that antibiotics can reduce the number of bacteria, and thus improve the smell of feet. Why some people carry large amounts of this bacteria and others don’t is still unknown, but is under investigation. It could be differences in a person’s sweat or pH balance. Since it’s not a good idea to take antibiotics to reduce odor, this valiant research team is now trying to find ways to keep bacteria from sticking to the skin, to prevent bacteria from getting a “foothold.” Around 80 million Americans suffer from smelly feet.

• One company called Sweet Feet combated foot odor with scented socks. Impregnated with various scents such as powder, citrus, strawberry, and peach, the footsie socks threw off a long-lasting fragrance. The odor remained even through many launderings and the socks cost about $20 per pair.

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JEANA YEAGER • Jeana Yeager was born in 1952 in Texas. She studied drafting in high school, a skill that would later serve her well. At the age of 26 she earned her pilot’s license. She was most interested in becoming a helicopter pilot, but then became interested in high performance aircraft. She moved to California and got a job designing experimental planes.

• In 1980, she met Dick Rutan at an air show in California, where he was a featured aerobatic flyer. Rutan and his brother ran their own aircraft company, designing new planes. Rutan hired Yeager to work with him, and they later fell in love. Over the next several years, she set several speed records as a test pilot for the planes Rutan was designing.

• In 1981, Yeager and Rutan began working to design a plane that could circle the globe without landing or refueling.

Yeager named the plane Voyager. Because it was a private endeavor, the plane was built using volunteer labor and donations. As it was being designed and constructed, Yeager underwent extensive training in ocean navigation and communications, expanded her flying credentials, and became one of the first civilians ever to complete an Air Force water survival training course.

• On December 14, 1986, the Voyager took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California, with Yeager and Rutan stationed in a cockpit about the size of a telephone

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booth. The wings, which were heavily loaded with fuel, scraped the pavement upon take-off and were damaged, but not badly enough to abort the mission. Traveling across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, over Africa, and then across the Atlantic before crossing the U.S., the flight was full of peril. They used much fuel avoiding a hurricane.

• Libya refused to allow access to air space, requiring an unexpected detour. A fuel pump failed mid-flight causing an engine to shut down. Moreover, the craft was extremely difficult to fly. Unstable in the air, it required constant attention to keep it aloft. Constant engine noise left both pilots with hearing damage by the end of the flight, and chronic fatigue dogged their every moment.

• Nine days after it had taken off, Voyager landed at Edwards Air Force, having traveled 26,366 miles at an average elevation of 11,000 feet. Whereas 3,500 people had been on hand to see them take off, about 55,000 people showed up to see them land, along with 23 news cameras. Yeager and Rutan had traveled 28,000 miles at an average speed of 116 mph. When they landed, they had eight gallons of fuel to spare, enough to have taken them only another 100 miles.

• From a record standpoint, Rutan and Yeager became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe nonstop, without landing or refueling in mid-flight. They also endured the longest flight up to that time, doubling the previous flight record for distance. President Ronald Regan awarded them with Presidential Citizen Medals of Honor, which had been bestowed only 16 times previously. They also received the Collier Trophy, aviation’s highest honor, and many other prestigious awards.

• After the flight, Rutan and Yeager went on an extensive speaking tour in an attempt to raise enough money to pay off some of the debts incurred during the mission.

• The Voyager is now displayed in the Smithsonian Institute next to other historic aircraft. Unfortunately, the relationship between Yeager and Rutan ended shortly after Published on the 1st & 3rd Friday of Every Month! their historic flight, and they went their separate ways.

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THE FICTIONAL MAJOR MARTIN

• In World War II, the Allied forces decided to start re-taking Europe by wresting the island of Sicily out of the hands of the Axis. British Naval Intelligence concluded that enemy forces needed to be misled into believing the Allies were planning on storming the nearby island of Sardinia. Axis troops would be massed there, leaving Sicily unprotected.

The question was how to fool the Germans. Thus was born one of the more unusual plots of World War II. The plan was to find a corpse, outfit it with fake ID, plant important documents on it that divulged the “secret” plans to invade Sardinia, then put it where the Germans would find it.

• Allied operatives in charge of the project secured the body of a soldier who had died of pneumonia. They made up fake ID papers which named him as Major William Martin. Two letters from Major Martin’s “girlfriend” named Pam were handwritten and placed in his pocket, along with a snapshot of a woman. In the letter she talked about their upcoming wedding, and they placed a bill from a jewelry store for an engagement ring in the billfold.

A bill for an overnight stay at the Naval and Military Club was included, dated the day before the Major was to meet his unfortunate “death.” His pockets were filled with coins, keys, a pencil, cigarettes, matches, and theater ticket stubs. A watch was placed on one wrist. An ID tag was placed on a chain around his neck. A wallet in his back pocket contained two pictures of “Pam,” a book of stamps with two missing, and some money. Then they attached a briefcase to his body with a chain of the same type bank messengers use when carrying valuables. This would prevent the briefcase from floating away from the body, as well as alerting the Germans to the importance of the corpse.

For Advertising Information Call 954-667-3237 • Fake letters from high ranking officers were placed in the briefcase. The letters discussed how it could be possible to make the Germans believe the next attack would be on Sicily, leaving Sardinia unprotected.

• Next they had to get the body to the Germans, by making it appear as if his plane crash-landed into the sea. They knew that a German secret agent was stationed at Huelva, Spain. So they commissioned a submarine to carry the body to the coast of Huelva and release it. The body was packed in dry ice to prevent decomposition on the submarine.

Major Martin was wrapped in a life jacket before being released to be sure the body would float. The plan kicked into action.

• A Spanish fisherman found the body. Military officers were summoned. A Naval officer took the briefcase and all personal documents. A doctor, finding fluid in the lungs (due to pneumonia) announced that the death had been due to drowning. The body was turned over to British diplomats, and they arranged a military funeral. “Pam” sent flowers for the grave. The British asked that Major Martin’s briefcase be returned, and eventually it was. But examination showed that all the “secret” documents had been removed and then replaced.

• German officials forwarded copies of the documents all the way up to Hitler. German troops went to reinforce Sardinia. Submarines moved out of Sicilian waters.

• On July 10, 1943, the Allies invaded Sicily incurring only slight losses. Even after the invasion started, the Germans were convinced it was not a legitimate attack but merely a diversionary tactic. Allies liberated Sicily in only 39 days and used it as a springboard for the invasion of Italy. Major Martin served his country well.

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Eggs Harmful to Health Eggs increase the risk for heart disease and diabetes, according to a new meta-analysis published in Atherosclerosis. Researchers reviewed 14 studies and found that those who consumed the most eggs had a 19 and 68 percent increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes, respectively, compared with those who ate the fewest eggs. For those who already had diabetes, the risk for developing heart disease from eating the most eggs jumped by 83 percent.

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Pseudogout Is Gout’s Distant Relative DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have pseudogout. It’s hard for me to explain to people, so I either tell them I have gout or I don’t tell them anything.

Will you do me a favor and explain it in the paper? I’ll cut it out, carry it with me and give it to people who ask what I have. Thanks. -- D.K. ANSWER: “Pseudo” is the Greek word for “false.”

Pseudogout is false gout, an illness that looks a lot like gout but really isn’t related to it.

With gout, blood uric-acid level rises. Crystals of uric acid deposit in joints and give rise to gout pain. With pseudogout, the crystals that invade joints and the tissues around joints are calcium pyrophosphate. What causes the rise of these crystals isn’t known. It’s not diet. The first attack of gout usually involves the base of the big toe.

With pseudogout, it’s the knee. The pain of pseudogout is not false; it’s quite real. Both crystals target other joints as time passes.

Supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids does not improve heart health, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers analyzed data from 12,513 men and women from the Risk and Prevention Study in Italy. After an average follow-up of five years, patients taking the omega-3 supplements did not reduce their risk of death or hospitalization from heart disease, compared with those who took placebo.

Even though these two are different processes, treatment Dairy Linked to Acne Development is similar. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used for acute attacks of both, medicines like Indocin and Dairy products and foods with a high glycemic index are the Motrin. Colchicine, another gout medicine, is also used leading causes of acne, according to a review published in for an acute, painful attack of pseudogout. As in gout, the March issue of theJournal of the Academy of Nutrition cortisone injection of an inflamed joint reliably suppresses and Dietetics. Researchers examined the evidence between joint pain. The standard treatment of inflamed joints -- ice acne and diet and found that certain products, particularly packs and immobilization -- are part of treatment for both cow’s milk, produce and stimulate hormones linked with illnesses. acne. The association does not seem to be related to the fat content of milk, as low-fat milk had an even greater Unlike gout, pseudogout doesn’t have as many medicines association with acne, compared with high-fat milk. This for the prevention of attacks. Colchicine can be taken on a study supports the findings in PCRM’s 2009 published daily basis to ward off attacks. However, should this illness review of diet and acne. develop into a chronic illness, medicines like methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine are often prescribed.

Breaking Medical News is a service of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine The booklet on gout and pseudogout provides answers to other questions on these illnesses. Readers can obtain a 5100 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20016 copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 302W, Box 536475, Join PCRM and receive the quarterly magazine “Good Medicine”.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: For about two months, my husband had a red bump on the back of his hand, and he picked at it all the time. It became a sore. I pestered him to see somebody about it, and he finally did. It turned out to be Bowen’s disease. My husband now believes he is at death’s door. Please explain what this is and how it’s treated. -- G.R. ANSWER: Bowen’s disease is squamous cell skin cancer in situ. Squamous cells are the usual outer skin cells. “In situ” is a Latin phrase that means “in place,” the cancer hasn’t gnawed deeply into the skin and hasn’t spread.

Bowen’s disease is as close to being 100 percent curable as any illness can be.

Freezing it, drying it with an electric current, radiating it, applying F-fluorouracil cream and surgically removing it (including Mohs surgery) are options that your doctor will explain to your husband. The choice depends on the size and depth of the cancer and your husband’s health.

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HOLLYWOOD -- Producers seem to be taking the expression “Everything old is new again” a little too far.

Here’s an original idea ... let’s remake “Hercules”!

It’s so original that two companies are remaking films about the son of Zeus.

Brett Ratner, who produced “Rush Hour 1-3” and “XMen: The Last Stand” is producing “Hercules: The Thracian Wars,” based on a comic book, with Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes and John Hurt for July 25, 2014, release.

But before its release we’ll get “Hercules: 3D,” directed by “Die Hard 2” and “Cliffhanger’s” Renny Harlin and featuring “Twilight Saga” star Kellan Lutz as Hercules. Even before that, we’ll see Lutz in “Java Heat” with Mickey Rourke, “Syrup” with Amber Heard, and this summer he’ll be “Tarzan.” The “Rock” vs. Tarzan and Hercules ... should be an interesting match!

Sorry to have to break the news to you, but Sylvester Stallone has sold the remake rights for “Rambo” and “The

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And speaking of musicals, you won’t believe this. In Australia, they are currently staging a full-scale production of a musical version of ... KING KONG! Among the stars returning to TV in the new season are James Caan (“Back in the Game”), Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar (“The Crazy Ones”), Michael J. Fox (“The Michael J. Fox Show”), Henry Thomas (of “E.T.,” in “Betrayal”), James Spader (“The Blacklist”), Blair Underwood (in a remake of “Ironside”) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (as “Dracula”).

Meanwhile, Neil Patrick Harris has been named to host The Tony Awards for the fourth time. It will, undoubtedly, be a great show because of all the film and TV talent nominated this year for their work in Broadway shows. The hot new musical “Kinky Boots” earned 13 nominations, including one for Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the music and lyrics for the show. Among the drama nominees are Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump,” etc.) for “Lucky Guy”; Nathan Lane (“The Producers,” etc.) for “The Nance”; and David Hyde Pierce (“Frasier”) for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” Best actress nominations went to Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) for “The Other Place”; Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men”) for “Ann”; and Cicely Tyson (“Jane Pittman” and “Sounder”) in “The Trip to Bountiful.”

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• Summer travel season will soon be in full swing. So this week, here’s a collection of tips for airline travel, beginning with one of my own: Make all reservations with the name on your official ID card, be it your driver’s license or state ID. It will streamline every encounter where you need to present your ID and tickets.

• “Get samples of your favorite cosmetics, if you can, from your department store. This way, you’ll be able to leave your full-size cosmetics at home during weekend trips.”

-- B.B. in California • If you travel quite a bit and are in the market for a new suitcase, spring for a color or pattern version -- the brighter, the better. There is an endless parade of black cases on every baggage-claim belt. Ribbons and tags can come off in travel. If your case is black and you aren’t ready to replace it, try decorating it with colorful duct tape on all non-fabric areas.

• “Bring contact information for your airline with you. If you miss a flight, call rather than stand in line. It’s more effective. Make sure you have all your information handy.”

-- A.R. in Ohio • A “nonstop” flight goes directly from one city to the destination city, no stops. A “direct” flight means that you might make stops along the way, some even requiring that you disembark, but you will not change planes before your destination. There can be many hours’ difference in travel times, so know the difference!

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954.254.6636 EZ Auto Rental

Over 20 Years of Experience Diplomate American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Memorial Medical Office Center

1150 North 35th Ave Suite 675 Hollywood, Florida 33021

901 North Dixie Highway Hallandale Beach, FL 33009

954-966-2133

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