Amy has purchased her turkey for the thanksgiving meal she's hosting Thursday. She's still not sure how to prepare her first-ever turkey....
Is There Any Truth To The 5 Second Rule?
The "five-second rule" goes something like this: Food dropped on the ground is perfectly sanitary and safe to eat -- as long as it's picked back up within five seconds. But is there any truth to the saying? "Five seconds, one second -- it's all the same," O'Brien says. "As far as bacteria's concerned, it's all the same." None of the tests found any serious stuff, like salmonella or strep, but they did find that bacteria, mold and yeast collected on anything that dropped on the floor or ground.
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The Number of Women on ADHD Meds Soars!
While more boys than girls are treated for ADHD, a new report shows that among adults, the numbers have flipped. Women’s use of medications for the condition has soared in the past decade, surpassing that of men.
The girls whose ADHD had gone unrecognized, chalked up to laziness or lack of motivation in school, grow into women who stumble when they encounter the real world of work and family. They can’t hold jobs, and, because they are so disorganized, they pay their bills late, if at all, lose track of appointments and misplace their kids’ school permission slips. When a child is diagnosed with ADHD, he says, there’s a 30 percent to 40 percent chance that a parent has it, too. Of those parents, the moms are more likely to seek professional help than the dads, explains Russell Barkley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina who’s long studied ADHD in adults. http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/16/8842194-number-of-women-on-adhd-meds-soars