fugitive247/health

From the page: "Artificial colourings could be removed from hundreds of food products after researchers found that they may be almost as harmful to children's development as leaded petrol.

"The additives, found in a host of sweets and soft drinks, have been linked to behavioural problems. But a team at Southampton University, carrying out a �750,000 study for the Food Standards Agency, (FSA) suggested seven colourings, including tartrazine and sunset yellow, could also affect children's intelligence by up to five IQ points."

What's needed now - if one exists - is a crib sheet which connects the U.K. coloring designations with their U.S. assigned names.

Out of the blue my youngest had just made an inquiry about the location of his pancreas. Now we both know. This interactive learning tool is cool beyond words.

Holy labia majora, Batman!!! Did women really buy into this bullshit? I've got one of those antique small brown bottles with the raised Lysol logo.

You don't think its contents were used for...?

Nahhhh. Couldn't have been.

But nobody buys little bottles of Lysol...

No way. Ewwww!!! /me shudders

From the page: "...the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is putting [Morgellons Disease] to the test. Is it real? Is it new? Are the symptoms caused by the same thing or things? Are cases really increasing? Is some environmental change to blame?"

From the page: "Budget cuts hurt kids who need help most
BY FRED GRIMM
fgrimm@herald.com

Charlie Crist saw the wretched disregard the agency afforded young Kevin Estinfil and recognized the power of a single narrative.

Last December, the governor-elect saw in Kevin a 12-year-old in state care suffering from cerebral palsy, blindness, fluid on the brain and a profoundly diminished mental capacity, a symbolic victim of the old regime with a reputation for heartless intransigence.

The state's Agency for Persons with Disabilities had refused to pay $360 for a year's supply of thermal blankets for Kevin, though without them his body temperature would plummet. And APD spent thousands fighting a lawsuit, rather than spend that piddling amount.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman charged APD with ''a failure to demonstrate even one iota of caring or compassion for children.'' Her angry words must have caught someone's ear in Tallahassee.

The governor-elect ordered his lawyers in the attorney general's office to abandon their defense of the lawsuit. Crist himself wrote a $360 check for the blankets. And he rewrote Kevin's story into a political parable, adding the kindly new governor to the narrative." [read the rest of the article]

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This article was emailed to me by my dear, long-time "real world" friend and mentor, Sue Cannon. I miss her and the whole Cannon family terribly. Shortly before my family left Florida, Sue accepted the position of State Parent Consultant with Florida's Early Steps Program. If she and her crew ever get sick of living in Hurricane Land I hope they'll take my husband and I up on our relocation offer. Heaven knows that special needs kids/families in this section of the Ozarks need more resources and dedicated advocates like her.

From the page: "Neville Rigby, a director at the International Association for the Study of Obesity in London, declined to discuss [the boy's] case. But he said the public often stigmatizes overweight people without knowing their situation and assumes they are guilty of self neglect."

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As the mother of a special needs child, I've become somewhat of a veteran in the child BMI wars. I fully understand and respect the desire to protect this child's medical history. However, not addressing the myriad of possible underlying medical causes of childhood obesity in general does a grave disservice to all children.

For example, significant childhood weight gain and loss can be attributable to medications, dietary allergies, metabolic and genetic factors, psychological events, and much more. Of course these must be diagnosed by the appropriate medical specialists, but for an effective treatment, all specialists must work in tandem.

This isn't about isolated symptoms to be treated
independently by any number of autonomous professionals.
The bottom line is taking care of the whole child.

And make no mistake: it's not just obese children over whom parents get threatened with charges of neglect. In the United States parents can be charged if their child's weight suddenly falls, or is consistently 20% below statistical average.

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The straight dope on tick removal. Includes links to other resources focusing on these disgusting parasites.