Veggie storage and calcium tips from Barbara Quinn
Senior reader asks if frozen vegetables preserve vitamins and about calcium and vitamin D. Barbara notes nutrients peak at harvest and freezing preserves them, advises moderate cooking, and provides storage tips. She also explains calcium absorption about 500 mg at a time and reviews the 25 hydroxy vitamin D test with a normal range of 30 to 74 ng/mL.
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Barbara
Myrtle G
Myrtle
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension
Ces.co.uky
Oldham
Gale S
Gale
National Institutes of Health
Barbara Quinn
Community Hospital
Monterey Peninsula
Sadness and Happiness May Spread Like an Illness
Harvard and MIT researchers used a Framingham Heart Study data set of 1,880 subjects to model emotional spread with an infectious-disease framework. They found sadness more contagious than happiness, with discontent raising the chance of becoming unhappy, while recovery to neutral occurs faster for discontent. A Royal Society B report details the findings.
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Harvard University
MIT
Framingham
Recipe controversy over soaked raisins in gin
The article notes mixed methods for making raisin recipes with variations like sloe gin or vinegar. Lab testing found only a single drop of alcohol across nine samples. A North Carolina woman previously described as walking with no assistance still eats the raisins, and the People’s Pharmacy recipe instructs soaking golden raisins in gin, then eating nine a day.
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Graedon
North Carolina
People’s Pharmacy
Advice for Parents on Reading Growth and Health Tips
A4 sourced guidance emphasizes reading and talking with children to boost development, with after hours pediatric access and emergency know how. It advises limiting screen time to two hours daily and requires annual pre participation sports physicals to discuss nutrition vaccines and growth.
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Steinberg
Goff
American Academy of Pediatrics
Straughn
Travel clot risk in cramped seating and prevention tips
Health columnist Jane Glenn Haas discusses travel related clots from long flights. Advice includes wearing compression stockings, staying hydrated, moving around when possible, avoiding alcohol, and considering baby aspirin. Genetic risk and testing for coagulants are mentioned with PreventDVT.org as a resource.
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Mercy Regional Medical Center
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Proceedings of
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Royal Society
Jane Glenn Haas
Orange County
Calif
Register
Cox
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