Snow Shovel Shape May Affect Your Risk of Heart Attack, and Other News

By Filed under Interesting Links on February 8, 2011 with 5 comments

Can the shape of your snow shovel impact your chances of having a heart attack while shoveling your walk? Maybe.

New theory: Obesity rates are high because people spend too much time indoors where the temperature is toasty warm.

A dog named “Marine” can detect colorectal cancer with 95% to 98% accuracy. See previous post on the Gambian pouched rat (used to detect tuberculosis).

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  1. Bruce says:
    February 8, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    Who needs diagnostic tests and medical personnel, when dogs and pouched rats are cheaper anc more accurate.

  2. Vicki says:
    February 8, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    Wrong on obesity. People are fat because they eat too much.

  3. Devon Herrick says:
    February 8, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    The theory that obesity is caused by too warm indoor temperatures… It’s probably true but only to a point. In the era before climate control, people would have tolerated colder temperatures in winter thus boosting metabolic activity. Tasks would have also been more labor intensive. Basically, people would have consumed fewer calories per day and the activities of everyday life would have burned more calories.

  4. Neil H. says:
    February 8, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    On snow shoveling, why not move to Florida and avoid the problem?

  5. John R. Graham says:
    February 8, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    It seems to me that pet-lovers have an opportunity under Obamacare that we should seize before it is repealed.

    Because insurers must cover preventive care, we need to start lobbying the US Preventive Services Task Force to list dogs as preventive care. Then we can send our claims for adoption fees, veterinary fees, dog food, toys, et cetera to our health insurers for reimbursement!

    (Just kidding of course: Folks know from my previous comments that pet owners would pay these costs indirectly through a reduction in relative wages versus non-pet owning colleagues.)