Health Points: Wednesday
Dr. Deborah Serani relays an article listing the happiest nations on earth:
1 - DenmarkAccording to Reuters mothballs are all the rage for getting high:
2 - Switzerland
3 - Austria
4 - Iceland
5 - The Bahamas
6 - Finland
7 - Sweden
8 - Bhutan
9 - Brunei
10 - Canada
The teenagers had been using the mothballs to get high, inhaling air from the bag for about 10 minutes a day because classmates had recommended it.Barbara Feiner of OrganicAuthority discusses the dangers of non-organic deodorizing products:
The sicker of the young women also had been chewing half a mothball a day for two months.
The doctors described the high as "dangerous" and most likely under-reported in medical literature.
The teenager told the doctors that she continued to use the mothballs during her hospitalization "because she thought her symptoms were not related to her habit," said Lionel Feuillet at the Hospital of Timone in Marseille, France.
“Even a small reduction in lung function may indicate some harm to the lungs,” says NIEHS researcher Stephanie London, MD. “The best way to protect yourself—especially children who may have asthma or other respiratory illnesses—is to reduce the use of products and materials that contain these compounds.”Peggy Harris of the Associated Press reports the world's largest meat processor Tyson Foods Inc experienced large losses for the April-June period:
Shares of Tyson Foods Inc. shed 3 percent on Monday, after the world's largest meat processor reported a fiscal third-quarter loss and predicted only modest improvement in the fourth quarter.
Tyson said a persistent glut of chicken, in particular, led to lower sales prices. Its shares closed down 41 cents at $14.16 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Tyson reported a loss for the April-June period — which it blamed on weakness in its chicken and beef divisions — of $52 million, or 15 cents per share, versus a profit of $131 million, or 36 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue dipped 5 percent to $6.38 billion from $6.71 billion last year.
Analysts, on average, had expected a loss of 3 cents per share on revenue of $6.63 billion, according to a Thomson Financial poll.
