A further finding about side effects of coffee (chapter the three-thousandth-after-next): “Carbon Monoxide From Domestic Coffee Roasting: A Case Report,” Joel B. Raffel and Joanne Thompson, Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 159, no. 11, December 3, 2013. The authors are at Imperial College London. BONUS: Coffee and convenience store workers and air pollution and lots of […]
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What Does or Doesn’t Suffocate You Might Make You Slim
Dieting takes a new turn in this study: “Chronic carbon monoxide treatment attenuates development of obesity and remodels adipocytes in mice fed a high fat diet,” P A Hosick, A A AlAmodi, M V Storm, M U Gousset, B E Pruett, W Gray III, J Stout and D E Stec [pictured here], International Journal of […]
Carbon monoxide: nice narcotic effect, so they say
Carbon Monoxide – dubbed “The Silent Killer” is a colourless and odourless gas – highly toxic to human beings. It’s a common pollutant in city air, coming mainly from vehicle exhaust emissions. But perhaps “CO, in small doses, is a boon to the well-being of urbanites, better equipping them to deal with environmental stress”? New […]