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That phrasing is kind of weasily, isn't it? Botflies, hundreds of species of worms from eyebrow to foot, flukes, toxoplasma, vampire bats... from the very small to the very large this world is filled with creatures that like to eat people. If someone believes they're infested they need to be taken seriously and given a battery of tests. To do otherwise is foolish in a non-doctor and could well be malpractice for a real doctor. This article does no one good.

http://www.healthguidance.org/...

Interesting, this comment lead me to this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/20docs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
and dick cheney who had a HeartMate II device fitted in 2010 and lived without a pulse for 15 months , he now has had a heart transplant and might get another 10 years out of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Health_problems

He had his first heart attack in 1978 at the age of 37 followed by others in 84, 88, 2000 and 2010 he will have his 72nd birthday in about 6 days time.

I personally had a heart attack a few years ago and at the time learned a few interesting statistics.
such as 30% of people having a first heart attack die from it , for a 2nd heart attack it is 50% and the death rate is about 50% after 10 years in this source. (at the time i found 6 and 8 years for 50%)
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/6324/1/Cardiovascular-Disease-The-Facts.html

Another interesting bit was your first year was a 25% chance of death followed by a 3% chance for the following years (without a heart attack it's about 1.5% chance of death in general). Rapid treatment is essential your heart can survive 20-30 minutes without the blood flow to the heart muscle after that the muscle starts to die and if you live you will have scar tissue where the muscle died. I have a heart which is 55% efficient a healthy heart is 60% efficient so i am still relatively unharmed. Maybe the most bizarre question was being asked if i wanted to be injected with heprin, it should clear the blockage but there is a 5% chance of a bleed on the brain. Given the choice of 5% risk or the unspoken alternative (~100% chance of death) i took the risk.

Being diabetic I might have avoided heart attack with a simple dose of 75mg of asprin daily, I had been diagnosed diabetic 2 years previously. You are what you eat, most processed food is pretty poor for your body and most profitable for the supermarkets. It's probably better to buy raw ingredients meat and vegetables and fruit. Farm produce is better for you than factory produce. Exercise helps, a healthy body weight helps.

Dick Cheney is an interesting case he may well live into his eighties with his new heart, thou in 1978 Stents were a new technology (introduced in 1975 I believe) so he has been incredibly lucky in that the technology has developed at a rate fast enough to be in place to keep him from dying.

Did anyone actually read the linked article?

Even the article doesn't support the broad conclusion. For a given test, music made performance worse. It's ridiculous to extrapolate that to any kind of real-world situation. WTF? And people here express a belief in science!

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/11767/1/Will-Background-Music-Improve-Your-Concentration.html

Should they ban playing in sunlight for the kids, too?

We've got that covered.