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E-I-E-I-O (continued): • A farmer can expect a fully grown pig to weigh between 300 and 700 lbs. (140 and 300 kg.) Even at that size, an adult pig can run at speeds of up to 11 mph (17.7 km/hr). A pig can’t see very well, but its sense of smell is highly developed. • Pigs have gotten a bad rap over the years, with folks who eat too much or who are messy referred to as pigs. In actuality, pigs eat slowly and enjoy their food. They are careful not to soil the space where they eat and sleep. If a pig is covered in mud, it’s because it rolled in it to keep cool, and it only does that if water is unavailable. And although people might “sweat like pigs,” pigs don’t even sweat! They are physically unable to do so! • Goats and sheep are some of the first domesticated animals. They arrived in North America in the 1500s on the ships of Spanish explorers and settlers. Different breeds came over with English settlers in the 1600s. There are now about 200 different breeds of goats, some bred for their fiber (angora, mohair, cashmere), some for the meat, and others as dairy goats. • An average dairy goat produces about a gallon (3.8 liters) of milk daily. Although we generally think of cows as our chief source of milk, more people drink milk from goats around the world than from any other animal. Goat’s milk is easier to digest than cow’s milk, because the fat globules are smaller and remain dispersed longer in the milk. • Like the cow, a goat’s stomach also has four chambers. They enjoy all kinds of plant food – shrubs, woody plants, weeds, briars, and aromatic herbs.
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E-I-E-I-O (continued): • Goats are natural-born climbers, and some are able to jump more than 5 feet (15.2 m). They have great flexibility and often stand on their back legs to reach tree branches. They can crawl under fences and occasionally even run along the top. • Domesticated around 5,000 years ago in Africa, donkeys can live 30 to 50 years in captivity. They are well known for their ability to carry heavy loads for long distances. Donkeys have a reputation for being stubborn animals, but their dogged refusal to move occasionally is because they are overloaded or they sense danger. • Donkeys are members of the horse family and are often interbred with horses. The cross between a male donkey (called a jack) and a female horse (mare) produces a mule. Crossing a male horse (stallion) and a female donkey (jenny) results in a hinny, much less common than mules. Mules and hinnies are generally sterile. A donkey can even be interbred with a zebra, with the result known as a zonkey. • A horse’s eyes and teeth take up a lot of space in its head! The male’s 40 teeth take up more space than its brain. The horse also has the biggest eyes of any land mammal, about nine times larger than a human eye. Because of the eye’s location on the side of the head, a horse is able to see nearly 360 degrees at one time. • A horse’s height is measured in “hands,” a measurement of 4” (10.2 cm). In ancient Egypt, this was considered to be the breadth of a man’s hand, the average width across the knuckles. The horse is measured from the ground to the top of the highest point of its skeleton, known as the withers.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I had surgery late last year on my right wrist for carpal tunnel syndrome. The numbness in my fingers has not changed. Now I’m faced with the same problem in my left hand. I’m going to forget surgery, seeing as it wasn’t successful in my right hand. I decided to go to an acupuncturist for laser treatments. I also had a cortisone shot. Neither of these has helped. Do you know of a solution for my problem? -- P.M. ANSWER: Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by compression on the median nerve, as it runs down the arm through a “tunnel� of bone and connective tissue deep in the wrist. It may cause pain, numbness and weakness of the wrist and hand. The thumb and middle three fingers are most often affected. In advanced cases, the hand muscles may become atrophied. The sooner the pressure on the nerve is relieved, the more likely there will not be permanent nerve damage. It sounds to me like the first surgery was not done soon enough to prevent damage. If that’s the case, then surgery on your left hand, done sooner after the onset of symptoms, might prevent the long-term numbness present in your right hand. However, it’s possible that the diagnosis was wrong or that the surgery might not have been effective, even if done promptly. At least one study of needle acupuncture showed that it is as effective as a cortisone injection. This study excluded people who already had fixed numbness in the fingers, who
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When a study comes out showing that chocolate is good for our health, chocolate lovers rejoice. Now a new study has more good news: Even milk chocolate qualifies.
The study in the British journal Heart tracked 20,000 participants for nearly 12 years. Its conclusion? A higher intake of chocolate reduced the risk of cardiovascular events: 11 percent lower for cardiovascular disease, and 25 percent lower for associated death. High intake of chocolate resulted in a 23 percent lower risk of stroke. The bonus: Most of the participants ate milk chocolate, not the allegedly healthier dark chocolate. In years past, the chocolate health studies have said: * Dark chocolate (not milk or white) helps to lower blood pressure. Researchers tested this by having participants swap back and forth at 18-week
intervals. * It was the polyphenol antioxidants in cocoa that helped because of the antioxidants -- there are more in chocolate than in red grapes, cranberries or blueberries. The polyphenols cause the blood vessels to open, lowering blood pressure. * A study of men and women who’d had a heart attack showed that chocolate cut the risk of dying from heart problems by nearly 70 percent. Eating chocolate even once a week still cut the risk in half. So while the new research isn’t 100 percent certain in its conclusions, there appears to be something in chocolate that’s good for us. While we wait for scientists to isolate what it is, ask your doctor if adding a bit of chocolate to your diet is a good idea -- just in case. Also ask your doctor to suggest an amount, to err on the side of caution.
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FRY AND SILVER (continued): • Teaming up with Silver, the pair set to work developing a new product. It took nearly two years to iron out the technical difficulties. Fry experimented by using the sticky note to pen notes to his supervisor and co-workers to demonstrate its usefulness. In Fry’s words, “I thought, what we have here isn’t just a bookmark. It’s a whole new way to communicate.” • The invention hit the test market in 1977 under the name of Press ‘n Peel, with disappointing results. But once dealers started handing out free samples, there was an immediate turnaround. The product hit the national market in 1980 with a new name, and the rest, as they say, is history. • How did Post-It’s become their distinctive yellow color? Coincidentally, when Fry first started his experiments, the lab only had yellow scrap paper on hand. • Today, the little sticky-notes are available in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 4,000 different Post-It products available. A recent workplace study indicates that the average office worker receives 11 messages on a Post-In note every day. • On the humorous side, the name of Arthur Fry was mentioned in the 1997 movie Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, after the two ditzy, under-achieving title characters claimed to have invented the Post-it-Note in the years since their high school graduation. A brainy classmate quickly corrected them as to the real inventor.
Air Force Vets and Agent Orange The Department of Veterans Affairs has now agreed to provide disability benefits to certain Vietnam-era Air Force veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange in airplanes. Were you ever on a C-123? Did you work on or around the airplanes? Does the name Operation Ranch Hand ring a bell? That was the operation that sprayed the Vietnam jungle and Korea DMZ area with the Agent Orange defoliant, and the C-123 planes were the ones that did it. Until now, the VA had regularly denied claims from veterans who were ill with any of the 14 AO-related conditions and who said they were
exposed to AO on a plane. The VA said there was no danger, that any AO on the planes would have dried. What they didn’t consider was the multiple uses of those C-123s: They also were used by National Guard, medical evacuations, routine cargo and more -- for the next 10 years. What’s disturbing is that the VA has already identified 2,100 Air Force active-duty and reservists who can get compensation. Twenty-one hundred? That’s all? It’s also pre-identified the locations where those veterans worked, as well as the Tactical and Aeromedical Squadrons. (Note: The lists vary, depending where you look.) Back in 2013, one veteran pushed hard and was finally given compensation for Agent Orange exposure that came from being aboard C-123 aircraft. In 1994, his plane had been sent to a museum, and there it was discovered that the plane was still “heavily contaminated” with Agent Orange. Call 1-800-749-8387 for more information or see www.benefits.va.gov and put C-123 Agent Orange in the search box. Don’t miss Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange through Duty on Contaminated C-123 Aircraft.
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