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penguinpolitician t1_j4rd03y wrote
Reply to Living in a greener residential area increases the diversity of oligosaccharides in breastmilk. This in turn may affect the child’s health, as the oligosaccharides in breastmilk can protect the infant from harmful microbes and reduce the risk of developing allergies and diseases. by universityofturku
That would go some way to explain the rise in numbers of people with allergies.
penguinpolitician t1_j2mwbc8 wrote
Reply to comment by mcclelc in Researchers find that public health trust was the strongest predictor of positive attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination. Information literacy, science literacy, and religiosity affected attitudes to a lesser degree. by glawgii
The average working age American adult visits a doctor 3.9 times a year in 2010, down from 4.8 in 2000: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/health_care_insurance/cb12-185.html
I'm aware people avoid visiting the doctor as much as possible because of the ridiculous prices, but it's not as if people don't see doctors or don't know how valuable medical work is.
penguinpolitician t1_j2mbhje wrote
penguinpolitician t1_j2l5kni wrote
Reply to Researchers find that public health trust was the strongest predictor of positive attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination. Information literacy, science literacy, and religiosity affected attitudes to a lesser degree. by glawgii
Does this lack of trust in 'public health' extend to all medicine and medical treatment? Hasn't everyone been going to see doctors their entire lives?
penguinpolitician t1_j1yec83 wrote
penguinpolitician t1_iy05zek wrote
Reply to TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto
Nice to see some love for Hoskins
penguinpolitician t1_ix2sg5y wrote
Reply to TIL: raccoons are native to North America, having been introduced elsewhere only in the 20th century. by acequark
I didn't know they'd been introduced anywhere else.
penguinpolitician t1_ja3kzzl wrote
Reply to comment by MonsterRider80 in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
The Koreans will still do it - call you a foreigner even in your own country.