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A California Consumer Watchdog Group Warns on Lead Levels in Chocolates

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, legal notices were filed by a consumer watchdog group in California last week claiming that a lot of chocolate firms post warnings on the labels of their packages showing high lead and cadmium levels of their products.

According to Oakland nonprofit group As You Sow, too much exposure to lead and cadmium can lead to health issues like lowering the IQ in children and some cases of kidney damage.

However, the chocolate companies and the association representing their group are disputing the claim. They say that the worst thing that can happen is for a small amount of the cadmium and lead in their products that come from natural sources and they added that the regulators have already rejected this same dispute way back.

It can be remembered that the study on chocolates made in 2005 by Russ Flegal and his colleagues showed that lead found in chocolates didn’t come from natural resources but from the manufacturing itself.

Chronic Fatigue Is Accepted as Real and It Has Been Renamed to SEID

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Every patient of chronic fatigue syndrome whines that they are so tired even if haven’t done anything at all in an entire day.

For those who don’t know too much about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, this is an adverse condition which leaves the sufferer feeling very tired, sluggish, exhausted and restless. The typical patient is one who lives a fit life and starts to feel tired all of a sudden. As for the symptoms, they can be mild but there are also times when they can be very bad. The more severe symptoms include tunnel vision, too much pain in the back and others can no longer even get out of bed on their own.

The name of this illness has been changed from Chronic Fatigue Syndromes to Systematic Exertion Intolerance Disease or SEID and has been accepted by the Institute of Medicine as a real unfortunate condition. This serious disease is putting a burden on several hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. today.

U.S. Officials Say Ebola Quarantine Was a Headache

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When the U.S. federal officials ordered to put 179 residents in the Dallas area under public health surveillance last autumn for Ebola, it become a huge task to meet the personal needs of those people for the three weeks that they were quarantined.

Forcing the people to not leave their homes for 21 days was a major problem as events unfolded in the city and the government had to deal with transportation, employment, education, food and many other household issues.

Under the rules of the government, every single individual quarantined was monitored on a daily basis by either the state or local health workers. This involved visiting each person for a temperature reading and checking every one of them for possible Ebola symptoms then followed by a phone call before the end of the day to get another temperature reading.

Over 75% of the local and state workers have reported that the job made them feeling stressed out and they expressed their worry about becoming ill and perhaps infecting the members of their families.

Ebola Survivor in the Detroit Area to Speak at Wayne State

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When Dr. Craig Spencer went back to the U.S. after his one-month stint in Africa trying to help treat Ebola patients, he clearly knew the risks.

Back in New York, he closely monitored his temperature for a fever because it is one of the early signs of the virus yet he continued his normal activities until six days after his return to the country that he developed a fever. He was admitted to the Bellevue Hospital and it was confirmed that he had Ebola.

Next week, Dr. Craig Spencer is scheduled to come to Detroit to speak to Wayne State medical students. He said the he’ll use his notoriety in order to make a huge impact on the understanding of Ebola and treating it as well as other epidemic diseases.

Spencer will also receive the Global Peacemaker Award from the Wayne State University’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies. The Ebola survivor said that he considers it an incredible honor to be given an address at his Alma Matter.

Student in California Discovers Oldest Known Fur Seal Fossil

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A California PhD student, Rober Boessenecker, took it upon himself to study massive fossil collections and discovered the oldest fur seal fossil ever known. He did browse the collections in the paleontological center in California which erased the gap of 500 million years in the evolution of a fur seal.

Boessenecker discovered that a fossil originally discovered during the 80’s was from a fur seal and not a walrus. It was previously thought that this was a walrus fossil but the latest evidence entirely changed the theory and gave new look to the history of fur seal.

What was studied was a partial jaw and teeth of a fossil that were well-preserved, a surprise that the new set of eyes didn’t expect to see. The fossil was found in Southern California with an age of approximately 15-17 million years but this wasn’t the fact that came out of the entire study. The age was actually wrongly calculated and the fossil was found to belong to a much older, smaller breed which is the fur seal and not the walrus.

The news was welcomed but it did come as a surprise as this was not the discovery that was expected to be made by the California student. However, it’s one that will give the fur seal a more definitive past and future.

Two More Pet-Food and Treat Recalled This Week

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently recalled two other pet food and treat products because of the possibility of salmonella contamination.

Specific units Nutrisca Chicken and Chick Pea Recipe Dry Dog Food sold all around the country to brokers, distributors and retail stores were recalled and the same thing happened to Beef Trachea Pet Treat which has 1,500 units pulled out from the market.

Salmonella can negatively affect those dogs that will consume the product and there is also a risk to human beings from handling products that are contaminated especially if they don’t wash their hands thoroughly after having contact with the pet food.

For those who still have the recalled products, the FDA recommends that they stop using them immediately. What they can do is wear gloves, put the pet food and treat in a double bag then throw them right away. They’re also advised to avoid touching the products and if they do, the FDA recommends that they wash their hands thoroughly afterwards.

Physicians Say That Diet and Exercise Are Not Enough to Get Rid of Obesity

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A group of physicians came together and moved on to challenge the misconception that diet and exercise are enough to treat obesity. The doctors say that roughly 79 million adults have been following the more exercise less diet formula but the results showed that this notion is a failure.

The comments of the physicians were published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal. There were around four weight loss experts that set out to correct the notion as they find that there’s a widespread misconception that obese people can turn to dieting and exercising that that they can return to their normal weight.

Christopher N. Ochner, a weight management physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital said that only a few people ever truly recover from obesity and those who do, still have what is referred to as ‘obesity in remission’.

Still according to Ochner, the sad fact that an average adult with sustained obesity only have less than 1% chance of returning to his normal weight and maintaining a healthy body without getting into surgery.

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