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There is some reported toxicity regarding cobalt buildup in the body, typically from a hip replacement or overindulging in B12 supplements.

Unless you're prone to removing the battery for a late night snack, any danger presented by the cobalt in your battery is dwarfed by the likelihood of walking into traffic while distracted by your cellie.

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  Dr. Michael Roizen, MD , Internal Medicine, answered
Although many studies have looked at the family history of disease in relation to the onset of disease, only three major studies have correlated overall longevity trends between parents and their children. The Framingham Study, the "Termite" Study, and the Alameda County Study looked at the age of parental death to determine if it predicted longevity of the offspring. Did the two correlate? Yes, but minimally. Each study showed a minor effect. The Framingham Study, the most comprehensive of the three, found about a 6 percent correlation between life span of the parents and life span of their offspring, meaning that many other factors affect longevity as well. If both your parents lived past the age of seventy-five, the odds that you will live past seventy-five increase to some extent. But to what extent? (Note that we are discussing, for the most part, death related to disease. If a parent dies at age forty in a car accident, for example, that provides little information about how long the child will live, although alcohol-induced accidents are a possible exception.)

If you are a man and both of your parents died before the age of seventy-five, then your RealAge (physiologic age) will be as much as 4.2 years older. If you are a woman, your RealAge will be as much as 3.5 years older. If both parents lived past the age of seventy-five, then your RealAge will be 4.2 years younger if you are man, and 3.5 years younger if you are a woman. If no first-degree relative (parent, brother, sister) had breast, colon, or ovarian cancer diagnosed early, you are an additional 0.2 to eleven years younger than if your siblings or parents had those diagnoses. Some genetic conditions, such as being a carrier of the BRCA-1 breast cancer gene, can make your RealAge as much as 17 years older. This is one of the instances where genetics can make a big difference.

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At a humidity rate of 57% there's 10g of watervapor in a cubic meter. We inhale about 11,000 liters of air a day , which is 11 cubic meters. So on a bit humid day, you inhale a little over 100 grams of water a day. At 15 grams of water per tablespoon, I think we should all panic right now!

And how much do we inhale in a single breath, which was the challenge?

At a humidity rate of 57% there's 10g of watervapor in a cubic meter. We inhale about 11,000 liters of air a day , which is 11 cubic meters. So on a bit humid day, you inhale a little over 100 grams of water a day. At 15 grams of water per tablespoon, I think we should all panic right now!

Why is medical care so expensive in the US?
Why do we keep hearing about doctors in hospitals working on average 74 hours a week (down from 105 a week) https://www.sharecare.com/heal...
Doesn't sound like there are too many doctors to me.

People who deliberately promote agnotology for commercial or selfish gain are causing great harm to our civilization, economically, socially, and morally. They cause our society to make incorrect decisions that will make all of us worse off. Let's consider some other people who cause harm in our society.

Drug dealers lure vulnerable people onto a path that usually leads to ruin. But their damage is limited to a relatively small number of people. Pimps also lure vulnerable young people onto a path of abuse and degradation. They often purposely addict their victims to drugs so that they will be more controllable. They in essence destroy the lives of these young people for profit. Although the damage done by pimps and drug dealers is obvious and clear, their impact is relatively small on society, since they impact so few people.

Contrast the above examples of unambiguous evil with those who worked to confuse society over the dangers of smoking. Even today, smoking kills millions of people each year worldwide. Anyone who worked confuse smokers and potential smokers about the potential dangers of smoking is complicit in the deaths of those who succumb. Dying of lung cancer is pretty much like dying of suffocation over a period of weeks or months. It is an excruciating way to die.

Thus, I see equivalence between consciously trying to confuse people about smoking, and being a drug dealer and/or a pimp. Except that those who try to sow confusion about the dangers of smoking are far worse, because in the end they will be associated with the deaths of far more people.

As for global warming, I think that consciously sowing confusion about the science is morally far worse than any of the above examples I mentioned. The near term consequences of global warming have been/will be higher food prices. For us in the western world, we will find ways of dealing with this, even though it will cause economic harm. But for those of live in North Africa, the consequences are far worse. Political unrest, for example during the "Arab Spring" can be tightly associated with the price of wheat. For those who spend most of their income on food, having the price of wheat go up even by 30% can be devastating. And if high wheat prices were associated with the Arab Spring, they are also indirectly associated with the Syrian war (as is an ongoing water shortage). These conflicts have resulted in many deaths, and have created countless homeless refugees.

To summarize, I believe that those who deliberately sow confusion about important issues are morally complicit in the deaths that will result from the agnotology they helped induce. I hold such people beneath drug dealers and pimps. If you are too stupid to understand science, well I guess it really isn't your fault. But those who know what they are doing, or worse are paid to sow ignorance and confusion are in my opinion amongst the worst scum of humanity.

On the one hand, yes, CPR traces it's history to the 1700s, even if it wasn't the entire modern version.

On the other hand I can find at least two references which acknowledge Jude as being part of the modern version of it.

But, more to the point ... thanks to all of the people throughout history who have helped us find ways to save lives.

And you can be damned sure that the use of CPR in its modern form has saved a tremendous amount of lives.

Sorry for your loss, voxelman. Few people can claim to have contributed to saving so many lives.