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POPSScientists find something good about a big bottom Researchers have known for some time that fat that collects in the abdomen -- known as visceral fat -- can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease, while people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are less prone to these disorders
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POPSMost older adults have brain disease: study Older persons can often handle one pathology in their brain, but the burden of more than one pathology may tip them over the threshold of clinical dementia Therefore, prevention of not only Alzheimer's disease but these other pathologies, particularly stroke and those things that may increase the risk of stroke, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, obesity, "are likely to significantly decrease the prevalence of dementia
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POPSItalian Plague Graves When plague struck Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, everybody sick or showing any suspect symptoms were restricted on the island until they recovered or died. "Nobles or lower class didn't make any difference," said Luisa Gambaro, an anthropologist of the University of Padua. "All the sick were forced to stay on Lazzaretto Vecchio, and if they died, they were buried together."
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POPSWhat is foot-and-mouth disease? Adult animals may suffer weight loss from which they do not recover for several months as well as swelling in the testicles of mature males, and in cows, milk production can decline significantly. The cause of FMD was first shown to be viral in 1897 by Friedrich Loeffler. He passed the blood of an infected animal through a fine porcelain filter and found the fluid that was collected could still cause the disease in healthy animals
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