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Weird Health Wednesdays – Healthy Beer, Asthma Snorkel, Rabid Fox Workout
Beer – Not Your Mother’s Health Food
This is much better than plain old lite beer. Rice University grads and undergrads figured out how to add resveratrol to brewer’s yeast to produce the drink. Resveratrol is the red wine chemical that appears to help protect against heart disease and cancer.
Behold, the Asthma Snorkel
While I usually only post new links in the Wednesday feature, I’m including this two year-old one because I almost never find weird asthma stories. An asthma snorkel is just what it sounds like, but go check out the photo because it’s remarkably innovative.
Fox Bites Jogger, Stays Locked on Arm for Next Mile
So after running the mile to her car with the fox’s teeth embedded in her arm, this woman managed to free herself and stick the animal in her trunk. Why? So she could drive it to the hospital to get tested for rabies. I think she therefore redefines the word “tough.”
Well, her and this guy:
Pilot Has Stroke Mid-Air, Goes Blind, Lands Plane
Even if you were an experienced pilot like Jim O’Neill, do you think you could land a plane safely after suddenly going blind at 5,500 feet? Credit also goes to Royal Air Force Wing Commander Paul Gerrard, who flew alongside O’Neill and talked him through the landing.
Apparently, O’Neill is recovering nicely.
Filed under: Weird Health
I don’t check in here as often as I have in the past (a lot of long days at work in a new role are to blame), but today is an off friday. I read the wierd health wednesday article on the pilot who stroked while flying. What a story that was, from the determination of the pilot, to the willingness of the Air Force (RAF) to help out. It really struck home with me as I am both an Air Force retiree (USAF in my case), and a stroke survivor. I don’t know if I’d have been able to do what that pilot did, but it sure is inspiring! Oh, by the way, I also hold a commercial pilot’s license … which I can no longer use due to a history of stroke!
The similarities in careful attention to lifestyle for a strokee and an asthmatic are interesting as we both have to watch out for what to others are often considered the routine of life in order to remain healthy.
I applaud your open letter to Michelle Obama and the oppportunity to hilight the issue of asthma on a broader basis.
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