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TIDBITS® BEATING HEART

by Janet SpencerOn September 11, 1952, the first artificial aortic valve was installed in a patient in Washington, D.C. Come along with Tidbits as we take a look at the human heart!HEART ATTACK FACTS:• 37% of all deaths in the United States are relat-ed to heart disease, making it the largest single cause of natural death. Heart disease kills twice as many people as all forms of cancer combined. The major causes are smoking, fatty diet, high blood pressure, obesity, stress, heredity, lack of exercise, and diabetes. It is an illness produced of man’s environment. Before 1900, heart at-tacks were very rare. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between 1940 and 1967 that the World Health Organization called it the world’s most serious epidemic.IT’S A FACT• Every single cell in the heart is guided by an electrical impulse which synchronizes the heart-beat so all muscle cells contract in unison to pump the blood. During a heart attack, the cells begin firing out of turn so the efficiency of the heart is lost and the blood does not get pumped. When doctors shock the heart, the shock over-rides each cell’s individual firing mechanism and once again synchronizes every cell, hope-fully getting them all to work together again.

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From the Publisher’s DeskBy : Evelyn Bevacqua

TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #37 Sept. 8th

A “tidbit” is defined as “a tasty morsel to be enjoyed before the meal”. And that’s just what Tidbits® is – a non-controversial, weekly paper dedicated to publishing entertaining morsels for the mind, food for thought as it were: trivia, fun facts, amusing stories and oddities.Tidbits is istributed to over 200 locations through-out the area. Tidbits can be found in restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, offices, banks, li-braries, hair salons, auto repair shops, motels, hospitals, medical & dental waiting rooms, retail stores, etc.Our weekly readership is 14,800. If you would like to add your event, stories, ad info or any comments, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] or call me at 208.755.9120.

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TELL TALE HEART• Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women. About a quarter of a million wom-en will have a serious heart attack this year. It’s true that estrogen gives women a healthy edge in fighting heart disease, but after menopause, the risk increases yearly till women are equal with men. Between the ages of 45 and 65, one out of nine women will show symptoms of heart dis-ease, compared to one in seven men. But after age 65, the ratio jumps to one in three, which is equal to that of men. However, studies have shown that in the first weeks following a heart attack, women are twice as likely to die as men. Furthermore, more women die during bypass surgery than do men. Why? • Some doctors say it’s due to a combination of factors. One is that when men go to a doctor and complain of chest pains, doctors automatically think of heart disease. But when women com-plain of chest pains, doctors may still think of heart trouble as a “man’s disease” and will look for other causes first. Furthermore, some doctors tend to think of women as having more psycho-somatic illnesses than men. Women too are at fault, for a study has shown that they tend to wait longer than men before going to the hospital for help, increasing their chance of complications. • One cardiovascular surgeon theorizes that an-other reason more women die during bypass sur-gery is because they have proportionately small-er arteries, making the surgery more difficult.• Men suffer heart attacks an average of ten years earlier in life than women, but women are twice as likely to die from their first heart attack as men.• It’s estimated that 90% of heart disease could have been prevented.

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HEART OF THE PROBLEM• About 600,000 Americans die of heart attacks each year. 350,000 of them die before they can even reach a hospital. • Cardiovascular problems are responsible for over half the deaths of people over age 65.• A quarter of the people who die of heart attacks show no previous sign of disease. • Stress plays a role in 70% of all illnesses. Peo-ple under stress are six times as likely to have a heart attack as those under little stress.• The heart of a typical alcoholic may be twice the size it should be.• Smoking is responsible for 100,000 deaths from lung cancer and 170,000 deaths from heart attacks each year. CUTTING THE RISKS• People with coronary heart disease are 30% less likely to suffer from blocked arteries if they regularly take naps during the day.• Females who jog an average of 27 miles per week are sick an average of two days per year, compared to eleven sick days for female non-runners. Male runners missed an average of 1.5 days per year compared to 4.4 sick days for male non-runners. • People who work in factories with high noise levels have higher rates of cardiovascular dis-ease, digestive disorders, and circulatory prob-lems than those with quieter workplaces. • A study of 45,000 men done by the Harvard University School of Public Health showed cof-fee does not increase the risk of heart attack or stroke as long as fewer than six cups per day are consumed. • Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee at the same time raises the blood pressure. The com-bination of caffeine and nicotine also stops the effects of many high blood pressure medications. This spells danger for those whose blood pres-sure is already too high.

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by Samantha Weaver

It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who made the following sage observation: ÒWe have art to save ourselves from the truth.Ó

If you live in Waukegan, Illinois, you might be surprised to learn that your property tax is 12 times higher than it would be if you lived in Ho-nolulu.

If you canÕt remember the word you want to use, youÕre suffering from lethologica. But you probably wonÕt remember that when it hap-pens.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Have you ever made a bet when youÕd been drinking too much, and later wondered what youÕd been thinking? If so, it might make you feel better to consider the case of a pilot named Thomas Fitzpatrick. In 1956, he was drinking at a bar in New York City when a rather boisterous argument ensued regarding his flying ability. To prove his skills to his drinking buddies, Fitzpat-rick went to New Jersey, stole a small plane and landed it on the street in front of the Manhattan bar -- all while allegedly drunk. The story, re-markable as it is, doesnÕt end there, however. A couple of years later he was boasting about the incident, but his story was met with disbelief. To prove himself once again, he repeated the stunt.

The name of the state of Idaho comes from the Kiowa-Apache word Òidaahe,Ó which means Òenemy.Ó

Every spring, one of the worldÕs great migra-tions occurs. At the end of March, 500,000 cranes descend upon an 80-mile stretch of Ne-braska land, representing about 80 percent of all the cranes on the planet. ***Thought for the Day: ÒI am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.Ó -- Sir Winston Churchill

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FAST FACTS• In 1933 at the age of 58, Wilson Mizner had a heart attack in Hollywood, where he was a screen writer. When he regained consciousness, he was asked if he wanted to see a priest. “I want to see a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergy-man,” he said. “I want to hedge my bets!” When a priest came to his deathbed, Mizner waved him away, saying, “Why should I talk to you? I’ve just been talking to your boss!” He died shortly afterwards, reportedly with a smile.• Walter Matthau had a heart attack in the middle of filming The Fortune Cookie in 1966. He re-sumed filming five months later. In the movie, he goes out the door and comes back in again forty pounds lighter.• In 1975 Philadelphians re-elected Francis O’Donnell to the city council even though he had died of a heart attack a week earlier. There wasn’t time to change the ballots.• In 1973 two white cops in New York were giv-ing mouth-to-mouth to a Puerto Rican woman who had suffered a heart attack and collapsed. A crowd of Puerto Ricans gathered and thought the cops were assaulting the woman. The police-men didn’t speak Spanish and the Puerto Ricans didn’t speak English. The mob beat the two cops.• Les Boatwright died of a heart attack a week before the Super Bowl XXIII game, to which he had two tickets. Knowing he wouldn’t want to miss the game, his two sons took the tickets, and his ashes, to the game.• Giuseppe De Mai was born with two hearts beating in his chest. In 1894 he signed a contract with the London Academy of Medicine, and was paid $15,000 for permission to study his hearts after his death.THE FINAL FACT• Rabbits who were cuddled for one hour a day suffered one-third the amount of heart disease as rabbits who received no cuddles.

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HEALH BITS By Dr. Holly Carling

Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over 34 years of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthandfitness.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.

What we use today, “ascorbic acid” or “calcium ascorbate” is not the same as it is when it comes from a food. Vitamins are not individual molecu-lar compounds, and are never found as an isolate in nature. They are biological complexes. They comprise elaborate biochemical interactions that are dependent upon multiple variables in the body. Vitamins are working processes that need enzymes, coenzymes, trace mineral activa-tors and other nutrients to perform an action. A vitamin will only work when all the necessary elements are present. If it’s not in the ingested complex, it will steal it from the body. When it runs out, the requisite function cannot occur as expected.This is not only true of Vitamin C, but Vitamin A and E as well. The synthetic versions we have become so accustomed to: d-alpha to-copherol (synthetic Vitamin E), beta-carotene, retinol palmitate, vitamin A acetate (all synthet-ic Vitamin A), are not true vitamin complexes. They too are chemical isolates. The identifying factor of the vitamins (called d-alpha tocopherol, retinol palmitate, or ascorbic acid) are just that – identifying factors. They are how we determine whether a food contains that vitamin or not. It is not the vitamin itself, and should not be taken as a single entity, separated from the whole com-plex.We have taken essential building blocks, which because of the form we consume them in, instead of building us up as vitamins should, are creating a new generation of health challenges that never should have existed. We have violated the laws of nature, and we are paying the price. If you want to build a healthy body, you have to eat real food – and real food vitamins!

VITAMINS:THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HEALTHBack in 1937 Dr. Albert Szent-Giorgi discovered Vitamin C as the nutritional factor that prevented scurvy – a deadly disease dreaded by sailors. Subsisting on a diet of mostly salted and cured meats, and no fruits or vegetables, many sailors died because of Scurvy, a deficien-cy of vitamin C. Without Vitamin C, there would be a breakdown of collagen in the tissues, includ-ing the joints and the vascular walls, eventually causing him to bleed to death.Dr. Szent-Giorgi did not use ascorbic acid by itself, as an isolate, as we do today. He used paprika. On the ships af-ter his discovery, they used potatoes, sauerkraut, lemons and oranges or real lemon syrup (called “lime” by the British). Even though he was able to isolate ascorbic acid, he found that it, by itself, did not cure scurvy. Only the Vitamin C found in foods did. He concluded that human cells re-quired a food matrix of nature’s co-factors, most of which were as yet unknown in his time, but quickly became evident as a requirement for its biological activities.Vitamin C from food helps with the metabolism of several amino acids, enzymes and hormones. It raises HDL cholesterol, tones or strengthens bones, gums, teeth, joints, skin and arteries, is in-strumental in immune health, and improves iron absorption. It is a critical building block for good health.

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CRIB BUMPER DRIVE: Why bring a crib bumper? Because we want to get RID of them in our community because of the danger they pose to infants as a SIDS and SUFFOCATION risk! Be sure to check thrift stores and yard sales to find them!

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Cancellation Policy: The Run for the Angels will proceed rain or shine. Cancellation will oc-cur only in conditions deemed hazardous by the officials. No refunds will be given.

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RUN FOR THE ANGELS 2014

5K Family Run/Walk, Silent Auction and Re-membrance Ceremony

Sunday, October 5, 201412-2 PM Kids Coner! Jumphouse, facepainting, photo booth12-2pm Silent Auction2:00 pm Opening Ceremony with Remembrance Ceremony2:30 "Run for the Angels 2014" begins! Course Description: A 5K (3.1 miles) course that show-cases beautiful Coeur d’Alene, ID along the cen-tennial trail and Spokane River.

Registration and Fees: Proceeds benefit the Safe Infant Sleep Education Outreach and Grief Support efforts of Idaho’s Inland Northwest SIDS Foundation.NEW THIS YEAR! We will have a Kids Corner complete with a jump castle and face painting begining at 12 PM on race day! Come on down and visit the silent auction while your kiddos play!Registration by September 22 guarantees shirt/bag.

T-Shirts: Pre-registered runners receive shirts with packet pick up. Late and/or race day regis-trants will receive shirts as supplies last.

Packet Pick Up: You may pick up your pack-et Saturday October 4 from 12 pm to 6 p.m. at 1810 Schneidmiller Ave. Suite 140B in Post Falls (INW SIDS office) or Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2014, starting at 12 pm. at the River-stone Gazebo.

Other Information: Runners/Walkers will be provided with water and a selection of healthy food to snack on post race. There will be an aid station positioned at the turn around point that will provide water to participants.

Silent Auction: Be ready to bid on some AWE-SOME ITEMS! If you have an item to donate, please call Andrea 208-699-7179Remembrance Ceremony: The Rembrance Cer-emony will be part of the Opening Ceremony. We will read our babie's names, release baloons and music. [email protected] if you would like your baby's name read at ceremony.


Tidbits® of Dallas County Page 8 Page 8FITNESS TIP OF THE WEEKJohn Caylor is a body transformation expert at Precision Fitness in Hayden and Certified Nutrition Coach with Venice Nutrition. John has been voted Best Personal Trainer in Northern Idaho in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 by the North Idaho Business Journal and is available for personal training and nutrition consulting by calling (208) 755-9099 or via email at [email protected]. You can follow John on his Facebook personal training page at http://www.facebook.com/johncaylorpersonaltraining.


Loss Goals!!Everyone wants to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle.Sadly, you are likely spending most of your days at a desk and most of your afternoons on the couch.Stop!

It is time for you to start reaching your goals rather than merely dreaming about them.The first step?Find the motivation to get off your couch and make a realistic weight loss plan.Using your Goals for MotivationTo kick start your weight loss journey, you must first have the motivation to do so. Many people attempt to lose weight without thinking about what their primary motivation is. If you do not have the motivation, your weight loss journey is likely going to end very quickly.Stop and take a few hours to ponder why you are considering losing weight. For many people with weight issue, a primary goal could be to reduce their weight such that they feel healthy. Making your mind think of “health-related goals” instead of “weight loss-related goals” can be a great motivator.For others, the main factor to begin losing weight is merely to look better.

Whatever your goals may be, use them to moti-vate yourself to begin your weight loss journey. That goal should be the main motivator to get you off the couch regardless of whether you want to improve your cholesterol levels or fit in your favorite pair of jeans.Plan, Plan, PlanNow that you have the motivation to get off your couch, what do you do?Begin planning!Kick starting your weight loss without sufficient planning will likely lead to failure. Take the time to develop a plan by doing your own research or speaking to an expert. Your plan should use a combination of diet and exercise that is best suited to your lifestyle.Now What?Now that you have the motivation and a plan in place, it’s time for you to keep both of them in mind and tackle your weight loss. If you ever feel that you are drifting away from the weight loss process, stop and reassess your motivation and your plan. Taking the time to reflect on what has worked and what has not worked is the best way to find what best suits your lifestyle.And as always, be sure to consult your physician before making drastic changes to your diet or workout plan.

How To Get Off The Couch and Start Working On Your Weight

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The uses of high dose vitamin C are many, which we'll cover another time. But IV Vitamin C, giv-en in massive doses of up to 500,000 mg over 24 hours, could potentially stop the Ebola in its tracks. Ebola causes symptoms typical of severe scurvy caused by a depletion of Vt C, leading to hemorrhage. With hemorrhagic fevers or any severe infectious disease, the patient's Vt C is burned up by free radicals so rapidly that they get "acute induced scurvy". One of the symp-toms of scurvy is bleeding. Massive doses of C will probably correct this situation no matter what disease causes it. There has recently been discovered a toxin produced by Ebola which damages the blood vessels and causes the bleed-ing. This toxin is undoubtedly a free radical which can be neutralized by massive doses of ascorbate.Has this been tried? Not to my knowledge. Would it work? Perhaps. And why not try, when so many patients are dying from this horrible in-fection. It's easy, cheap, readily available, with no side effects.And if, heaven forbid, Ebola makes its way to this country (only a matter of time), march to your nearest physician who knows how to give IV Vt C.

EbolaThe largest outbreak of Ebola in our history is taking place and is all over the media. Ebola is a truly frightening and deadly virus with a high mortality rate - anywhere from 50 - 90% of those who contract the disease will die. It causes mas-sive hemorrhaging and bleeding from every ori-fice and internally. There is no known cure, but an experimental drug is available which has been very promising, curing all monkeys that were infected. Unfor-tunately, they are out of the drug and it will be months until more is made.But what if there was a treatment that we have right now, one that is readily available, cheap, and easy to administer? And works!We do, and that is Vitamin C, or Ascorbate.Only 3 animals cannot make Vt C: man, monkey and guinea pigs. Therefore, we have to consume ours.

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NOW HERE’S A TIPBy JoAnn Derson

“Wet a plain kitchen sponge and place it in a zip-lock baggie in the freezer. It’s great for bumps and bruises, tired eyes and overheated kids.” -- V.I. in New Hampshire

Always rest your bar soap on a sponge. You won’t have a soap slime problem ever again, and the soap stays put. When the sponge starts to look questionable, you can replace it or just toss it in the wash with your towels.

“Sunday dinner is great for so many reasons, as our family reserves this day to be together at mealtime. It also has become a day to touch base on appointments and obligations for the com-ing week. We discuss what each of us has going on upcoming, and we post our schedules on the fridge on Sunday evening. This way, we can help one another and keep each of us accountable. It works for us!” -- A.A. in California

“A really nice gift for a family with young chil-dren is a family membership to a local science and history museum. It’s a gift that keeps on giv-ing, and it’s very flexible, because with a mem-bership, you can go all day or just a few hours to keep it light.” -- C.W. in Virginia

A great way to organize in the kitchen is to use the space on the inside of your cabinet doors. You can install a metal sheet (to stick magnetic items to), a chalkboard, a small rack or a section of a pocket organizer. The possibilities are end-less.

Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Or-lando, FL 32853-6475 or e-mail JoAnn at [email protected].


Emergency Call List Should In-clude PetsDEAR PAW’S CORNER: I wanted to pass along a suggestion to your readers. Last summer, we moved to a new city. The day after we moved in, our cat “Lace” became critically ill in the mid-dle of the night. With no Internet connection set up, my wife used her slow, older smartphone to look up a 24-hour emergency clinic. We found one that was a 30-minute drive away. Lace got there in time and has recovered pretty well, but it haunts me that it took us nearly 20 minutes to look up the location of that clinic.Please tell your readers that they should write down the number and address of their pet’s regular veterinarian and the nearest emergency vet clinic on their list of important numbers, and keep it next to their home phone or saved on their cellphone. If they are moving to a new area, they should look up the clinics nearest their new home and have that information ready just in case something happens while they’re settling in. -- Curtis, via email

DEAR CURTIS: You told them, and I thank you! This is an era when many people no lon-ger have a phonebook waiting for them on the day they move in (something that was almost standard 20 or so years ago). Instead, we rely on Internet and cellphone connections to get criti-cal information. The plus side of having an Internet connection is being able to look up important locations -- such as the vet, the emergency clinic, the doctor and dentist ... and the nearest pizza place -- before leaving your old city. Having a contact list, both on paper and stored on your computer or cellphone, also is important in an emergency such as a house fire or a natural disaster.

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Famous CanadiansJOHN HOPPS• John Hopps was born in Winnipeg in 1919. After receiving a degree in electrical engineer-ing from the University of Manitoba in 1941, he joined the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in 1942. He was researching hypothermia and experimenting with radio frequency heating to restore body temperature when he came to the attention of Dr. Wilfred Bigelow and Dr. John Callaghan at the Banting Institute in the Univer-sity of Toronto. • This team of surgeons was researching meth-ods of heart surgery. Dr. Bigelow believed that the only way cardiovascular medicine could advance was by enabling open-heart surgery. Based on his experience as a field medic dur-ing World War II, he was convinced that cool-ing the body and slowing the heart rate was the way to go. One of the challenges the surgeons faced was keeping the heart beating while the body was hypothermic. During an experimental surgery on a dog, they noticed that stimulating a stopped heart with an electrical probe could restart it, and that sending pulses of electrical current could actually change the heart’s rate. It was “a tremendous bit of good fortune,” said Dr. Bigelow in an interview about the discov-ery with the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. To turn this discovery into a clinical device, they recruited John Hopps.• John Hopps went to work designing the world’s first pacemaker. The first model, an ex-ternal pacemaker developed in 1951, was about the size of a shoebox and needed to be plugged into an electrical outlet to work. It used vacuum tubes to generate electrical pulses. An insulated wire inserted through the jugular vein delivered the electric shocks to the right atrium of the heart. These shocks provided the artificial pac-ing. (cont’d)

by Freddy Groves

$300 Million Boost for Home-less VetsOn the heels of the Notice of Funds Availability issued a month ago to provide housing and ser-vices to veterans with special needs, the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs has announced $300 million in grants for homeless veterans and their families.The money will be given to more than 300 com-munity organizations and agencies in all 50 states (plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C.) to help 115,000 homeless veterans.One of the services provided is called the VA Supportive Housing Program. In association with the Department of Housing and Urban De-velopment, HUD-VASH has more than 58,000 housing choice vouchers that will allow veter-ans (and their families) to live in rental housing while getting case-management services from the VA.Support services include health care, daily liv-ing, personal finance, transportation, fiduciary and payee, legal, child care and housing counsel-ing. The community organizations will be able to help with security deposits, utilities, moving costs and rent payments. They’ll help get VA benefits and public benefits as well. To qualify, a veteran needs to make less than 50 percent of the median income in the area.If you or someone you know is in need of home-less programs, go online to www.va.gov/home-less. For Support Services for Veteran Families or homeless veterans, see www.va.gov/home-less/ssvf.asp or call 1-877-424-3838. They’re open 24/7. Look online for 2014 Awards to see the complete list by city and state of community organizations awarded funds.Your best bet: If you know you’re in danger of losing your accommodations, your electricity or your heat, call for help before that happens. Be-fore you know it, cold weather will be here. Get your living situation stabilized.

Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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JOHN HOPPS, cont’d• It would be another ten years before internal pacemakers became a reality. The turning point was the invention of small silicon transistors to replace vacuum tubes. This technology allowed pacemakers to become small enough to be im-planted in the body.• The first recipient of an internal pacemaker was Arne Larsson of Sweden in 1958. The prototype was about the size of a tin of shoe polish. Over his lifetime, Mr. Larsson received 28 devices and lived to the age of 86. • Today’s pacemakers are about the size of a USB stick. They may be as small as one inch (2.5 cm) in diameter and weigh as little as 0.5 oz. (14 gm). Pacemaker surgery is usually performed in less than an hour under a local anesthetic. In addi-tion to being smaller, modern pacemakers are far more complex. Programmable pacemakers were introduced in the 1970s that allowed doctors to choose different pulse speeds and durations. Modern pacemakers include microprocessors that collect data about how well the heart and pacemaker are working. These microprocessors can also monitor the patient’s physical activity and adjust the heartbeat as needed. Some pace-makers can even restart the heart if it stops.• Dr. Hopps retired in 1979. Ironically enough, in 1984 he himself became a recipient of a pace-maker. By this point, inserting a pacemaker was considered to be routine surgery. His pacemaker lasted 13 years, at which time he received a new one. When his brother also needed a pacemaker, Hopps insisted his sibling pay him a royalty, but he refused to cough up. Hopps died in 1998 after seeing his invention save thousands of lives. • Today the Canadian company Mitel is the world’s largest manufacturer for the inside parts of the pacemaker.

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Dear Tamara, I have a son who is 8 years old he has started to lose his hair. I took him to the doctor and they said he has Alopecia Areata and that he may get his hair back and he may not.Please tell me what causes Alopecia Areata ??? Concerning Mother

Dear Concerning Mother;First off there is 150 different kind of Alope-cias most of the time the doctor just labels a patient when they see hair loss in a certain area they call it Alopecia Areats.Alopecia Areata is a systemic, non hormonal cause of hair loss. Diet and stress and other situation trigger what's believed to be an auto-imune disease and the subsequent hair loss as-sociated with it. Once you have alopecia areata, even though the bald spots may come and go, its generally a chronic condition and warning sign of more severe hair loss problems ahead. Proper care of the scalp and diet can some-times reduce the severity of the episodes and the length of time between them. But, there is no known permanent solution.We know the autoimune system is breaking down . There are studies being done at medi-cal hospitals studying these break downs of the autoimune system and what the causes are. Diet seems to play a big part in hair loss and the chemicals that they use today to process the food that we eat. There are studies being done on soy, canola oil, and high fructose corn syrup and what they do to the autoimune sys-tem since soy today is a GMO seed and high fructose corn syrup and canola oil are made from chemicals the studies that are being done may lead us to fine a cure for all the Alope-cias. I believed within the next 5 years we will know what causes these 150 kinds of hair loss-es in the family of Alopecias.If the hair loss is noticeable on your son scalp you may consider on getting him a custom hair graft for that area where he has lost his hair. Also, Its very important that he cleanse his scalp daily with the proper cleanser and scalp conditioner. With the correct products you could see a quicker result in hair growth. These products are not sold usually in most salon's for it 's a product that Tricoloigist carry because tricoloigist custom make these prod-ucts for each individual person who has this disorder.

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GREAT IS GARLIC• Garlic contains 33 sulfur compounds, 17 amino acids, germanium, selenium, various minerals, and vitamins A, B1, and C. It has only two calories per clove, is fat free, and very low in sodium. • Garlic is not just a spice; it is also a medicine. Louis Pasteur proved in 1858 that garlic acted as an antibiotic, killing bacteria in lab culture dish-es. During World War II when penicillin was still new and rare and sulfa drugs were often not avail-able, garlic-soaked moss was used as an antiseptic to disinfect wounds and prevent gangrene. There are over 1,200 medical reports and an additional 700 studies of the chemistry of garlic, many of which have shown that garlic lowers cholesterol, decreases blood pressure, and inhibits cancer. It increases the capacity of the body to absorb vita-min B1 which is typically difficult to digest and slow to be assimilated. Garlic kills pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract, and also stimulates digestive juices. Consider these studies:•In a trial that pitted garlic against the cholester-ol-lowering drug called Bezafibrate, garlic turned out to be just as effective as the medicine. A study reported in the British medical journal Lancet proved that after taking nine cloves of garlic, cho-lesterol dropped by seven percent.• Volunteer diners had their cholesterol checked before a meal. The average cholesterol level was 221.4 before dining. Then they were fed a meal containing a total of 1/4 pound of butter. Three hours later, the average cholesterol level was up to 237.4. But when the same meal was given again, this time along with the oil from 50 grams of garlic added to the recipe, the average choles-terol level dropped to 212.7, which was lower than before the test subjects had even begun eat-ing. (cont’d next page)

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Hang Curtains With EaseQ: The windows in my new apartment have curtain brackets installed on either side of all the windows, but they are either warped or broken. I’m not very confident that I can put up new brackets. Any tips? -- Sarah, via emailA: Sure. Tip one: don’t be nervous about placing new brackets. Tip two: measure twice, cut (or drill) once. Putting up outside-mounted curtains can seem difficult, but it’s a great home-improvement project for beginners that can boost confidence while mak-ing your apartment considerably more awesome.You’ll need a few simple tools: a tape measure (one of the big locking ones is ideal) and a level (very in-expensive, but indispensible for getting the brackets set up in line). Buy a corded power drill, or borrow one from a friend, along with a set of drill bits. And keep one flat-head and one Phillips-head screw-driver on hand, too. You’ll also need a small ladder or stepladder to work safely.Measure the height that the curtains must reach. If you want floor-length curtains, measure from the floor to the top of the window molding (the wooden ÒframeÓ around the window opening). Add about 4-6 inches to that measurement to get the correct height of curtains you need. (Most ready-made curtains come in standard sizes, with 84 inches the norm for floor-length.)Measure the width of the window from one side of the molding to the other.Next, buy new brackets and curtain rods (and cur-tains, if you don’t have them already). The rods should be long enough to extend 3-6 inches past the window on each side. The brackets need to be tough enough to hold up heavy curtains (that’s part of the reason why your old brackets are partially torn out of the wall). You also may want to buy plastic wall anchors; bracket screws go through these to better hold the brackets in place.Really long curtain rods often come with an addi-tional bracket placed at the center of the rod to keep it from warping downward. Take the hint and install this center bracket if it’s included.To set up the new brackets, measure and mark a point 6 inches above the window molding and another one 3-6 inches past the molding, on both sides of the window. Use the level to ensure that the points are in line with each other. Make sure the new brackets aren’t placed in the same spot as the old ones.Place the new bracket so the top part touches the outer mark you just made. Use a pencil and mark the drill holes for the bracket. Do the same on the other side. Re-measure and level the two points. Then, pre-drill guide holes for the bracket, using a drill bit one size smaller than the bracket’s screws.Hold the bracket in place over the pre-drilled holes, and place the screws, using the screwdriver to hand-tighten. If using a screw anchor, screw that into the wall first, then hold the bracket in place and thread the screw into the plastic anchor. (The anchor will pop open on the backside of the wallboard.)Double-check the placement of the second bracket one last time, then screw it into the wall. If a center bracket is needed, add that as well.Now, all that’s left is to put the curtains onto the rod, and lift the rod into place on the brackets. An easy task!Send your questions or home tips to [email protected]. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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GARLIC FACTS• The Journal of Hypertension reported that gar-lic can lower blood pressure by as much as nine percent.• One study in India took 432 people who had recently had heart attacks. Half were given gar-lic oil daily and half were given placebos. After three years, those taking the daily garlic oil suf-fered 35 percent fewer secondary heart attacks and 45 percent fewer deaths than those taking the placebos. A study of over 40,000 women in Iowa found that those who ate garlic at least once a week had a 35% lower chance of getting colon cancer than those who ate no garlic at all.• A group of people were given garlic every day for three weeks. Then white blood cells were tak-en from the test subjects and placed in a lab dish containing cancerous cells. The garlic-eater’s white blood cells killed off more than twice as many tumor cells as did white blood cells from people who ate no garlic.• Three different groups of toads were fed either freshly minced garlic, garlic oil, or corn oil (as a placebo) for four months before being exposed to aflatoxin B1, which is a food contaminant known to cause liver cancer. Only three percent of the toads fed minced garlic and nine percent fed garlic oil developed tumors. However, 19 percent of those fed corn oil developed cancer.• Even though many studies have shown positive results from garlic, it is still illegal in the U.S. to make any medical claims concerning its health benefits. It is also difficult to get federal fund-ing for additional studies, and pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to explore research into widely available natural substances that cannot be patented.

TRIVIA TESTBy Fifi Rodriguez

1. MOVIES: Which movie character delivered the famous tagline: “Why so serious?”2. EXPLORERS: Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?3. LITERATURE: What was the original title of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”?4. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with invent-ing Band-Aids?5. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Who once said, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody”?6. LANGUAGE: In British slang, what is a “torch”?7. MUSIC: Which character on “Sesame Street” had a hit single with the song “Rubber Duck-ie”?8. GEOGRAPHY: What Central American na-tion lies between Honduras and Costa Rico?9. TELEVISION: Which sitcom featured the character Cliff Clavin, and what was his profes-sion?10. ANATOMY: What is the common name for the axilla?

Answers1. The Joker (Heath Ledger) in “The Dark Knight”2. Ferdinand Magellan3. “First Impressions”4. Earle Dickson5. Bill Cosby6. Flashlight7. Ernie8. Nicaragua9. “Cheers,” postal worker10. Armpit


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I have a dear friend who is addicted to Facebook. Linda spends hours every day following her ‘friends’- most of whom she only knows from Facebook and has never met in person or had a ‘real’ conversation with. Their lives are all she talks about - what they’re doing, how the children are growing, who’s hav-ing a birthday,etc., etc., etc. When we go out to lunch she’s on Facebook showing me pictures of people I don’t know or want to know. Sure, they all look like they are having a great time, in fact they do look like they’re having a ball and their lives sound exciting and perfect. Every time I see her she seems more depressed. I asked her what she posts and she said nothing as her life is boring and meaningless. She thinks if she has-more ‘friends’ her life will have more meaning. I’m worried about her but don’t know how to help her. Any ideas?Worried in WallaceDear Worried,Social networking can be entertaining but when it becomes an obsession it is not only a dilemma but a life crisis as well. Many people use Face-book to keep up to date with their families and friends, and that’s great. Social media will never replace face to face social interaction and com-munication. Linda has a serious addiction hid-ing a need to truly connect with others. When any addiction rules your life you’re in trouble. A problem with social media is that it makes us compare ourselves and our lives to other people and their lives. Few people talk about what’s wrong or how challenging and difficult their lives are. It’s more ‘look at me and how perfect my life is.’ What is shared is not the complete story as much of life happens behind closed doors, and few talk about the demons that stalk their non-public life moments. Do make future lunch dates a Facebook free time. Invite other ‘real’ people and have ‘real’ conversations. See if you can get her to participate in group out-ings, go to church, or socialize in fun ways. If not, suggest - because you care for her, that she seek counseling / therapy and address this issue in a healthy way. You’re a good friend - continue to care and support her in taking responsibility for finding happiness in her own life. She needs some wellness time void of social media! .

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