Random Linkage

• Could you imagine this 1956 radiation testing on animals ever getting approval now?
  

  A PACK of 300 sad-eyed, floppy eared beagles are serving as canine guinea pigs in an unusual University of Utah project designed to investigate the hazards of industrial radioactivity. Financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and directed by Dr. John Bowers, the studies will show what happens to bone and tissue when radioactive substances are injected into the dogs.

• More whole-grain servings per day could help reduce heart failure risk
  

  Increasing the number of regular whole grain servings in your diet by just one may lessen heart failure risk by 7 percent among middle-aged African-American and white men and women, according to findings from a long-term study.

  Conversely, an increase of one serving of high-fat dairy and egg appear to raise heart failure risk by 8 and 23 percent, respectively, Dr. Jennifer A. Nettleton, of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, and colleagues found.

• Everyone is over-reacting to nut-allergy fears? (via Schneier blog)
  

  “People read on food labels that a product has been made in a factory with nut-based products and it creates the impression that nuts are everywhere.”

  He said some parents avoided taking their children to birthday parties and restaurants because they were worried about triggering an allergy.

  However, a recent study has suggested that early exposure to peanuts actually reduces, rather than increases the risk of allergy.

• Doctors: Detox diets are nonsense.  They help you lose weight because they are sensible diets, not because toxins are removed from your system

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