health
医护
that's disgusting
"THE CLAP"
Some nicknames don't make sense. (Why is "Bill" short for "William?"). But other nicknames fit quite well. Gonorrhea, as it turns out, has a very well-known and very fitting nickname: the clap.
Daytha Lindburg, a physician's assistant in obstetrics and gynecology at Mowery Clinic in Salina, says the term "the clap" has roots in World War I. Some of the soldiers had gonorrhea during the war,and the doctors had no idea how to cure it.The disease causes severe pain in men, so the doctors knew they had to do something. Their solution, says Lindburg, was to have two men stand on either side of the alling soldier and literally clap their hands together on his penis in an effort to release the discharge inside.
The remedy sounds horrifying, but Lindburg says a lack of sufficient antibiotics required desperate measures.
"They had no alternative," she says. "I think that at times, the poor fellows actually felt better afterward."
- Kaitlyn Syring
So, unfortunately for some men in the early 1900s, the "clap" makes perfect sense.
good for you bad for you SNACKING BEFORE YOU SLEEP
Many health-conscious folks worry that eating before bed will lead to the body storing all that food in the form of fat overnight as the metabolism slows down. And, while the metabolism does slow while you sleep, this doesn't mean you have to go to bed hungry. Dan Kottmann, a specialist in performance nutrition, says many foods can actually be beneficial to eat before bed.
Kottmann emphasizes the need to consume proteins, which digest slowly and can thus keep the body's metabolism active during your sleeping hours. Kottmann says the best form of protein comes from protein shakes, dairy or eggs. Protein powder for shakes costs around $20 for a two-pound bottle, and the shakes make an easy bedtime snack or a cure for midnight hunger cravings.
Generations of adaptation have programmed our bodies to prepare us for starvation. When our bodies are deprived of food, they feed on muscle to stay energized. However, a pound of muscle can burn as many as 50 calories a day. So, by increasing protein that the body can use to build muscle at night, you are actually helping your body reduce fat in the long run.
Nichole Habashy, Wichita senior, says she recently became more health-conscious when it comes to late-night snaking. While she used to eat popsicles to abate late-night hunger,
Habashy now snacks on cottage cheese,another good source of protein,
Kottmann says you should eat about 15 to 20 minutes before bed to give your stomach some time to begin digesting the food. He says you should also not shy away from getting up in the middle of the night to eat something healthy if you are hungry.
Staying away from carbohydrates and fatty foods is also essential to keeping off those extra pounds. These types of food have less value to adding to muscle and thus get stored as fat more easily. Kottmann says trying to remember to eat healthy when drunk could also be a way to minimize the effects of sleeping on a full stomach of beer.
VERDICT: GOOD FOR YOU
- Jeff Briscoe
10 02.14.2008 VOL.5 ISS.20
interesting fact: Stuart Sutcliffe [one of the Beatles' early band members], Marilyn Monroe, Karl Marx, Bob Dylan and Shinley Temple are all on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." When the Beatles requested Temple's permission to use her image on the album, she was the only celebrity who insisted on hearing the disc before granting permission. —www.eskimo.com/—bpentium/facts.html
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