This says everything I was trying to say and more…
Merriam-Webster made headlines a few weeks ago when it announced that it was adding a new meaning to the pronoun “they,” as a word “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.” Though a welcome sign of progress, this definition is nevertheless misleading, because while nonbinary identity and a preference for “they” pronouns are often related, they are conceptually distinct. They/them pronouns are gender-neutral. They are not explicitly or exclusively nonbinary. There are good reasons why nonbinary people do not prefer they/them pronouns, and there are good reasons why people who are not nonbinary do prefer they/them pronouns.
If you have a parka or jacket with a shock-cord waist cincher that tightens with a spring-driven squeeze closure, don’t leave it closed at the same spot on the cord for years and years. TIghten it or loosen it by half an inch every now and then to spread the wear instead of concentrating it in one spot.
Yeah, reading the label is a good idea! Of course, knowing that piracetam is potentially dangerous (at best, useless) and at what doses it is relatively safe is probably beyond the paygrade of most supplement customers. Too bad the FDA has no ability to regulate this market! caveat emptor
"Overall, the study found that regular use of permanent hair dye was associated with a 9% increased risk of developing breast cancer. The study also broke down the results by race and found that for white women in the study there was a 7% increased risk of developing breast cancer.
For black women, the risk could be as high as 45% which the study suggests is likely due to different chemicals in hair products specifically for black women’s hair texture. For heavy use of hair dye (defined as once or more every five to eight weeks) the risk increased to 60% for black women and 8% for white women."
“It’s not as simple as the headline, as usual, but this is something that potentially affects a lot of people,” Ashton, a board-certified OBGYN, said Wednesday on “Good Morning America.” “You must interpret this headline with a massive amount of caution.”
All the usual caveats surrounding a single study, but this is a pretty large (46k subjects) epidemiologic study suggesting there is a there there. Yet another win for the follicurlarly challenged!
Unregulated and unsupervised supplement manufacturers continue to kill people, and TPTB seem to have no interest in preventing this. Can’t interfere with that profit, man!
We can thank Orrin Hatch and co for the paper-thin “regulations” on supplements. Even worse than no regs, IMO, because it adds a veneer of respectability to fool the average consumer.
Exactly. The FDA only gains authority after people are injured or killed. I can remember the deaths from vitamin A megadosing back in the '80’s, I have treated peripheral neuropathy from B6 megadosing, and nothing can be done about it but clean up the mass. Because FREE-DUMBS!!!
