Debunking Seasonal Thick Blood Myths From Dr Lamb
A reader asks if blood thickens in winter and thins in summer. The doctor explains that blood cell to plasma ratio shifts with dehydration and bed rest, not seasons. Tonic remedies like sassafras tea have no thinning effect.
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Dr. Lamb
Coffee and blood thinning: myths tied to heart risk
A Q A discusses that normal people gain no advantage from thinning blood, while rare patients may need blood removal for excess red cells. It notes coffee raises resting heart rate in some, may trigger irregular beats, and that decaf can largely mitigate this, with decaf not perfect for all. The piece references Lancet and Dr. Paul.
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Lamb
Lancet
Paul
Chicago
Printed Pattern 4710 Women’s Tops for Spring Summer Wear
Printed Pattern 4710 offers easy sewing for women sizes 34 through 48 with half sizes listed. Price is 75 cents each pattern, with 25 cents extra for air mail handling. Include name address size style number to Anne Adams in New York for pattern requests. Also promotes pattern catalog and sewing books at $1 each.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
TV Movie Highlights 2 00 PM Race Street and Other Films
A schedule of late afternoon and nightly films featuring 1948 Race Street with George Raft and Marilyn Maxwell, 1967 Welcome To Hard Times with Henry Fonda, 1967 Operation Kid Brother with Neil Connery, 1968 Countdown with James Caan and Robert Duvall, 1946 Best Years of Our Lives with Frederic March, Myrna Loy, and 1938 Test Pilot with Clark Gable Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy.
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George
Peyton Place
Somerset Dennis
Beverly the Hillbillies
Mike Lucy
Death Valley
Douglas
Henry
O Fonda
Seeners
Love James
Brother
Caan
Neil
Connery Smith-Willis
Eyewitness News
Saint “ “ News
Washington
Tonight
Alfred Hitchcock of Years
Entertainment Presents
Entertainment of
Carson
Frederic
Clark
Gable
Race Street
George Raft
William Bendix
Marilyn Maxwell
Henry Morgan
San Francisco
Henry Fonda
Janice Rule
Aldo Ray
Janis Paige
James Caan
Robert Duvall
U.S
Frederic March
Myrna Loy
Clarke Gable
Spencer Tracy
Lionel Barrymore
Marjorie Main
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Stu Chi
Wind Ensemble Center
Rochester, N.Y
University of Rochester
Eastman School of Music
National Center For the Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Robert Freeman
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell
Beetle Bailey
Otto
Ewne
Kee
Andy Capp
Percy Missus
ABC
Blondie
Tootsie
Mindy
Ann
Snuffy Smith
Samantha Barlow
Doonesbury
Mrs. Nixon
Senator
Winthrop
Liig
Winchester
Duff’s Restaurants
Millwood Ave
Valley Ave
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Erryville
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