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pondersoftheworld — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:51:51 +0000

From the Los Angeles Times’ Health section on the Internet, I found a very educational feed with a number of topics all relating to human health. Despite the fact that my reading schedule for the feed was sporadic, the reading sessions were enlightening. The publishing amount of those articles was many some days and only one on other days, which intertwined with my irregular reading. The approach of all the authors was to give the information without confusing readers with the jargon of literary terms or as in school lingo, the style was informative. Even so, the subjects were not just about medical breakthroughs but also public health, media myths on bodies, new warnings, and random facts of wellbeing. In “FDA Finds Salmonella Strain in Jalapeno Pepper,” the American public was warned that strands of salmonella are found in jalapeno pepper. Fortunately one of the media myths was broken in one article with the announcement that low-fat diets are not the diets with the most weight loss, yet the low-carb Atkins diet was. Because of the scare of causing asthma, a new alert was recently issued for pregnant women not to eat nuts. One article implied that people who shop compulsively can be diagnosed as having a disorder. Who knew that shopping could be a disorder? An effect of this diagnosis is insurance providers may have to change their services. With all this new data streaming in regularly, I will definitely keep this feed on my list.

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