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HAND FACTS • No one know for sure why the skin gets all wrinkled when it’s wet for long periods of time. However, researchers have noted that when the nerves that supply feeling to a patch of skin is cut, that patch of skin becomes permanently numb- and it also ceases to become wrinkled when it is wet. It also loses its ability to sweat. Scientists now theorize that wrinkled skin allows for a better grip in wet situations.

Hunter-gatherers operating in wet environments would find this advantageous.

• Oriental people have an extra flap of skin on their eyelids which gives them a slant-eyed appearance. Why? Anthropologists theorize that it protects against cold and glare, helping them cope with bitter, cold winters. Their noses are flat to minimize exposure and reduce risk of frostbite. Their nostrils are narrow, which helps warm up cold air. Their faces have an extra layer of fat to act as insulation, and a layer of fat on the eyelids also acts as a barrier to the cold.

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• There are no muscles in your fingers. Your fingers are controlled by muscles and tendons in your palm, wrist, and forearm.

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• She had many disguises. Once she disguised herself as an Irish peddler woman, claiming she was selling apples and soap to the soldiers. This afforded her access to the Confederate camps, where she chatted with her customers and gathered intelligence about upcoming campaigns.

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• One of her most successful episodes of espionage came when she again disguised herself as a male slave by dying her skin. The Confederates put her to work on the fortifications at Yorktown, Virginia. She worked hard and made many sketches of the fortifications which were then smuggled to Union headquarters. The information she gave greatly assisted General McClellan in capturing the town.

• Her escapades ended when she contracted malaria in 1863 and requested a furlough, which was denied. Not wanting to seek medical attention from the army for fear of discovery, she left her comrades in mid-April, never to return. “Franklin Thompson” was subsequently charged

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• When she recovered from the malaria, she wanted to return to the army, but was afraid to do so after seeing “WANTED” posters listing Franklin Thompson as a deserter. Instead, she dropped her male disguise and went to work as a nurse.

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BACKWARDS THINGS Evangelist Jim Brown maintained the “Mr. Ed” television theme song conveyed a satanic message to unwary listeners. “ ‘A horse is a horse’ when played backwards contains the message, ‘the source is Satan’ and ‘someone sung this song for Satan,’” Brown maintained.

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• In Iowa, hundreds of highway signs warning of deer crossings were distributed. The signs pictured the deer with their antlers backwards.

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• So much mail was being sent to Mount Tabor, South Carolina, when it was intended to go to Mount Tabor, North Carolina, that residents in South Carolina dropped the Mount from their name and spelled Tabor backwards to become the town of Robat.

• At the end of World War I, Marshal Ferdinand Foch dictated the armistice to Henri Deledicq, a military clerk from French headquarters. In the wee hours of early morning, the sleepy clerk put the carbon papers in backwards. As a result, the Armistice agreement signed on November 11, 1918 in the railway car near Rethondes had signatures on the bottom of an agreement that was printed backwards. No one even noticed.

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• A man named Muldoon led a gang of street thugs that kept the entire waterfront area of San Francisco under their tight control in the 1870s. A newspaper wanted to end their tyranny but was so intimidated by the gang that they dared not use Muldoon’s real name. They spelled it backwards and changed the N to an H— and hoodlum entered the language.

• Enola, a town in Arkansas, is ‘alone’ spelled backwards.

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However, if the same child remains inactive, eats fatty foods, and becomes obese, he or she has a significantly greater chance of developing diabetes. We are all born with a set of genes, but we have the ability to influence how those genes are expressed simply by choosing healthy actions.

Weight Control and Obesity Prevention in Children People who maintain a healthy weight throughout life stay healthier and live longer than those who are overweight.

The lifestyle habits that help keep us slim—exercise and a healthy diet—also cut our risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and some cancers.

The prevalence of obesity among our nation’s youth has more than doubled in the past 20 years, with close to five million youths aged 6 to 17 seriously overweight or obese.

The prevalence of obesity in nine-year-old children in a recent study was about 12 percent for boys and 7 percent for girls.1 Even the number of young overweight four-to five-year-old girls nearly doubled between the early 1970s and the early 1990s.2 The problems caused by overweight go way beyond appearances. Childhood obesity leads to all manner of health problems, such as adult-onset diabetes and heart disease.3 A number of risk factors for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, including high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and insulin resistance, are sometimes grouped together and called the metabolic syndrome. In one study, obese seven-year-olds had nearly four and a half times the risk of having metabolic syndrome in adulthood than their non-obese peers.4 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently found that 60 percent of overweight five-to ten-year-olds already have at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as raised blood pressure or insulin levels.5 Many overweight children become overweight adults.

This is in part because the number of fat cells a child has is determined by the time he or she reaches adolescence.

Generally, heavier children have more fat cells, which makes it more difficult for them to lose weight as adults.

And, sadly, children who are overweight maintain some added health risk even if they eventually lose the weight.6 Family plays a major role in determining a child’s body size. Genetics give us our eye and hair color, but when it comes to body size and shape, genes are no match for how we live life. Doctors agree that environmental influences are very important to a child’s chances of staying slim and fit. For example, a child with a family history of adult-onset diabetes has double the risk of having diabetes as an adult.

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Food Choices for a Healthy Body Choosing a plant-based eating style is a simple way to achieve or maintain a healthy weight because such dietary patterns require no calorie counting and contain the nutrients a fit body needs. Vegetarians have been shown to be leaner than their meat-eating peers in a number of scientific studies.7,8 Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, medical researcher, and teacher, advised in his book, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, that weight-loss programs for children should be based upon changing the type of food children eat, rather than the amount of food they eat. He encouraged shifting the entire family away from oily fried foods, meats, and dairy products and toward low-fat, plant-based foods­ grains, pasta, vegetables, legumes, and fruit. When this is done, he stated, “Weight loss typically occurs without anyone going hungry.”9 This is the key to life-long weight maintenance. The scientific evidence is clear: the closer a family gets to a pure vegetarian diet, the healthier they’ll be.

Experiment and broaden food options. Try new foods, recipes, and places to eat to keep it interesting and enjoyable. Sometimes, when people change their food intake because of concerns about health, body size, or personal beliefs, they focus too narrowly on just a small number of foods. Exploring the broad range of healthful foods now available makes a menu change fun, nutritious, and sustainable.

Choose low-fat, healthful options whenever possible.

Choosing lower fat recipes and foods and eating a variety of colors are good ways to ensure that your child’s diet is a healthy one. For example, oven-roasted potatoes should be chosen over French fries, pasta with marinara sauce is a better option than spaghetti with meatballs, and fruit sorbet is just as refreshing but much more healthful than ice cream. The net effect is usually a reduction in the number of calories and, of course, fat consumed in any given portion of food that isn’t easily detected. Plus, the introduction of new foods adjusts the taste buds and develops an appreciation for good, wholesome food. It’s best to avoid foods and beverages that have lots of energy but few or no nutrients, such as candy, soda, punch, cookies,

and fried snack foods. Fatty condiments like creamy salad dressings, mayonnaise, butter, and margarine are best left off the plate. Instead of centering meals around fatty meats and cheese, meals should be built from healthy grains, legumes, and vegetables.

Key Steps to Fitness Fitness has four dimensions: cardiovascular, strength, flexibility, and body composition. Activities that get the heart pumping, such as running, swimming, bicycling, aerobics, and playing sports or outdoor neighborhood games, improve cardiovascular fitness. Strength-training activities, such as weightlifting, push-ups, and sit-ups, as well as many daily tasks, such as digging in the garden, lifting boxes, carpentry work, and so forth, improve muscular development and bone strength. Stretching, yoga, gymnastics, dancing, and martial arts all promote flexibility. A healthy body composition balances muscle and other lean tissue with an appropriate amount of fat tissue for a child’s age and sex. Healthy body compositions are achieved through a combination of an active lifestyle and a healthy menu of grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruit.

Staying Clear of the Food Fight Children learn very early that what they eat is important to their parents, and they often use this knowledge to their advantage. Parents may sit for hours at the dinner table with their children until they finish their last asparagus spear. Food can be used as a reward, a way to exert control, or a way to rebel. Rewarding kids for good grades or good behavior with sweets can set up internal conflicts about food. This is especially true if the rewards are in opposition to current goals for health or body image. If not dealt with early, these food fights may extend into adult life as well.

Finding a way to sidestep the food fight is a priority. If a child is having trouble sticking to healthful foods, the following strategies may be helpful.

Stock the kitchen with healthy foods. Having plenty of fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans on hand and keeping unhealthful foods out of the house are simple ways to eliminate conflict over which type of food to prepare or eat.

Focus on food as a fuel for health. Choosing a simple, health-giving way of eating like the one suggested in these pages and explaining to children why it is important to eat this way will help them to appreciate and choose healthful foods.

Reduce the emphasis on food in daily life. When people solve problems by eating or congratulating themselves with food, the importance of food has gotten out of Continued on page 6

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control. Finding other solutions to problems, such as talking about them, writing about them in a journal, or taking a walk or a bike ride to figure out possible steps to take, are much healthier and productive. Families should become accustomed to using non-food treats as rewards, such as a warm conversation, reading, going to a movie or the park, making something, calling Grandma or a friend, or engaging in other physical activities.

Set clear divisions of responsibility. If a “food fight” develops, parents should define responsibilities around foods. The parent is responsible for providing appropriate food choices. The child is responsible for choosing what to eat amongst the choices offered.

Allow for healthy treats. Occasional treats are a good idea, but they should be healthful items. Fresh-fruit smoothies, a colorful cup of berries in season, or a vegetable dish prepared a favorite way can all be special treats and prevent a family from feeling trapped by their healthy diet.

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ANSWER: It sounds more like peripheral artery disease, PAD, a condition that 5 percent of adults over 40 and 20 percent of those over 70 have. Peripheral artery disease is the same process that occurs in heart arteries, an

obstruction to blood flow due to the buildup of cholesterol and fat on the artery wall. In the heart, it causes the chest pain of angina when a person engages in physical activity.

In the legs, it causes pain in the buttocks, thighs, calves or feet when a person walks farther than usual or faster than usual. The leg muscles are not getting the amount of blood they need to support such exertion.

An easy test, done in the doctor’s office, provides solid evidence for the diagnosis of PAD. That test entails taking blood pressure in the arm and comparing it with blood pressure in the leg. The name of the test is the AnkleBrachial Index, dividing the ankle pressure by the arm pressure. A number less than 0.9 denotes peripheral artery disease. Taking the ankle blood pressure requires a special instrument, one that’s not available to the general public.

Most doctors have it.

PAD is treated much like plugged heart arteries are treated.

Keep up your walking program, and do try to increase the length and pace of your walk. Stop to rest if pain occurs, then resume walking when it leaves. Your doctor will decide if you need a medicine like Pletal (cilostazol). For large obstructions, procedures similar to ones used to open heart arteries (balloon dilation, grafts, stents) are used for PAD. Also important is an examination of your heart’s circulation.

People with PAD often also have coronary artery disease (CAD), plugged heart arteries.

The booklet on peripheral artery disease provides the details of this common condition. To order a copy, write to: Dr. Donohue -- No. 109W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

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Is there a vitamin or medicine that promotes hair growth?

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To her, sex was “being good in the feathers,” death was “pushing around the clouds,” and of herself she said, “I made movies, I made out, and I made a mess of my life.”

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Boca Raton, Florida (August 5, 2013) – The City of Boca Raton is proud to present the 2nd Annual Downtown Boca Brazilian Beat, deemed South Florida’s official Brazilian Independence Day Celebration by the Consulate General of Brazil in Miami, held on Friday, September 6 at 6 p.m. in Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy. (one block north of Palmetto Park Road).

Event-goers will enjoy spectacular live music with Forró in the Dark, and Eta Carinae on the main stage, street entertainment including Zumba showcase, Capoeira dancers, carnival dancers and drummers, and also delicious Brazilian food.

Forró in the Dark is the collective of New York-based Brazilian ex-pats – leader Mauro Refosco (zabumba drum and vocals), who also performs with David Byrne and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guilherme Monteiro (guitar and vocals) and Jorge Continentino (pifano flute, sax and vocals) who are updating the traditional Brazilian sound for the 21st century. For those who don’t already know, forró is the hip-swiveling, dance floor-filling, rural party music of Brazil’s northeastern states. Forró in the Dark have performed in major festivals around the world including Bonnaroo, and the prestigious Monterey and Montreal Jazz Festivals.

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Eta Carinae hails from the musical city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco in the Northeast of Brazil. Named after the brightest star in the galaxy, this band brings together the traditional rhythms baião and maracatu and mixes them with modern pop and electronic sounds. Eta Carinae has toured extensively around the world and has played at several major European festivals.

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oral exam, gum x-rays & Nodisease present. cleaning Codes: 0150, 0274, 1110) With this coupon. One coupon per visit. Not valid with other offers or services.

49

$

kid’s special kid’s oral exam, gum disease. x-rays & NoFluoride extra.

Codes: 0150, 0272, 1120) cleaning $200 value.

With this coupon. One coupon per visit. Not valid with other offers or services.

FREE Implant Consultation

Code: (6010)

With this coupon. One coupon per visit. Not valid with other offers or services.

CROWNS

799

$

Does not include build up or lab fee.

Code: (2750)

With this coupon. One coupon per visit. Not valid with other offers or services.

Requires Exam & X-Rays

150

$

Codes: (0150, 0274)

one-hour Zoom® Whitening With this coupon. One coupon per visit. Not valid with other offers or services.

2219 Hollywood Blvd #104, Downtown Hollywood • 954-589-2176 • www.EliteDentalPractice.com