By Will Collette
According to recently released studies and events there are many, many things you really should think twice about doing –
but for reasons you may not have considered.
Here’s what I’ve got for you today.
You should
not:
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Eat sweets
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Listen to loud music
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Wear tight jeans
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Watch Fox News
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Shop at Wal-Mart
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Build a home wind turbine
Sweets can make you stupid.
According to study results published in the Journal of
Physiology, rats who were fed high fructose corn syrup and standard rat chow
had far more trouble navigating a maze than rats who were fed a high Omega-3
diet. "Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you
think," said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery and
integrative biology and physiology. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's
ability to learn and remember information. But adding omega-3 fatty acids to
your meals can help minimize the damage."
Tight jeans
can cause nerve damage.
Women who jam themselves into very tight jeans run a
high risk of a disorder called Miralsha Parasthetica. According to Dr. Karen Boyle of the Greater Baltimore
Medical Center “It's a disorder that occurs when one of the nerves that runs in
the outer part of a thigh gets compressed. And pressure on it causes symptoms
of tingling, numbness and pain in the outer part of the thigh." Wearing
any sort of high heel along with the tight jeans makes the problem much worse.
Dr. Boyle recommends wearing jeans with some stretch to them.
Sex, Drugs
and Rock and Roll? It’s TRUE.
According to a study in
the June issue of the journal Pediatrics, young people who listen to loud music
through ear buds are almost twice as likely to smoke pot. Those that frequent
clubs and live music concerts are six times as likely to go on a binge-drinking
bender.
Young people who engage in “risky listening
behavior” (defined by the European Commission’s Scientific
Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks as
listening to music at 89 decibels for at least an hour per day) are 10% more
likely to engage in unsafe sex. They can also suffer noise-induced hearing
loss, and increased feelings of isolation, depression, loneliness, anger, and
fear,
Fair and
Balanced and Wrong.
According to researchers at Farleigh-Dickinson University
“Anti-venom
to Aisle 4”
Don’t shop at Wal-Mart. There are lots of reasons
why you shouldn’t ranging from their abuse of their workers and their negative
effects on the US
economy and to local businesses wherever they set up. But here’s a new one from
Idaho where
local marijuana farmer Mica Craig was shopping for mulch. He reached for what
he thought was a stick laying on a mulch pile. It turned out that was no stick
but a rattlesnake that proceeded to bit him on the finger. Craig told MSNBC. "I slung it off and I did a tap dance on it
until it was dead." His hand swelled up to the size of a grapefruit and he
required hospitalization. "As of right now, my little finger doesn't move
at all and my ring finger barely moves," he said according to radio
station KIRO FM. "I'm just hoping that my hand works."
Good thing
this didn’t happen in Charlestown
John McNulty decided to get himself some green
energy and mounted four small vertical axis wind generators on the roof of his Newport home. BUSTED!
McNulty failed to get a building permit and, when he tried to make things
right, the Newport City Council not only denied his application but enacted a
moratorium on any wind energy installation until they figure out how to
regulate them. Hey, come to Charlestown
– we’re old hands at killing wind energy. McNulty paid a fine of $500 but intends to appeal his case to Superior Court.