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Smog And Appendicitis Already recognized as a risk factor for heart attack, stroke and cancer, air pollution is now also being linked to attacks of appendicitis. “Appendicitis is one of the most common reasons for North Americans to have surgery,” says gastroenterologist Dr. Gilaad Kaplan of the University of Calgary’s Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences. Appendicitis, an inflammation of the appendix which is found between the small and the large intestine, is a disease that accompanies industrialization, and until now it was blamed on lack of fibre in modern diets. “But that doesn’t explain the drop in rates in the mid- [...]

February 25, 2010, by Sharon Adams

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FEATHERS ON THE BRAIN– Brian Watkins, RCL representative to RCEL, “Feathers on the Brain,” a memoir of his life in Wales and as a British diplomat, available at Amazon.com or any good book shop, ISBN 978-0-9866421-5-9, $10.23. The author will be present at the Halifax Convention. Contribution from every book sold will be donated to The RCL’s Poppy Fund.

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