My father worked as a mechanic as a teen in the early 1960s. He tells stories of loading air hoses up with trike and hosing the other mechanics down with it. 78 years old and no neurological issues so far. But he is one of those people who seems to completely ignore his physical condition and yet has minimal health issues despite his obesity. Mom has had a daily 6AM workout routine for decades, is at a stable healthy weight, and has no end of health issues.
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
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#282My father worked as a mechanic as a teen in the early 1960s. He tells stories of loading air hoses up with trike and hosing the other mechanics down with it. 78 years old and no neurological issues so far. But he is one of those people who seems to completely ignore his physical condition and yet has minimal health issues despite his obesity. Mom has had a daily 6AM workout routine for decades, is at a stable healthy…
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. This is why most dry cleaners won't accept bedding. It's considered too high-contact. (If they do accept it, they wash it with something other than TCE) Source: a college friend of mine, years ago, who worked as a dry cleaner. After talking to her, I've never used one since.
Don't dry cleaners launder most things - as in, they use clothes soap not TCE? I'm under the impression that this is what happens when I drop shirts off to be cleaned and pressed
It depends on the fabric/you can ask. I brought in one delicate item to be washed (a cosplay) and they said they'd wash it in cold and not dry clean it.
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#284My father worked as a mechanic as a teen in the early 1960s. He tells stories of loading air hoses up with trike and hosing the other mechanics down with it. 78 years old and no neurological issues so far. But he is one of those people who seems to completely ignore his physical condition and yet has minimal health issues despite his obesity. Mom has had a daily 6AM workout routine for decades, is at a stable healthy…
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#285I know it's the fault of the journal, but I thought we edited here to remove clickbait. Can we put at least the name of the chemical (trichloroethylene) in the title?
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#286>"But in the 20th century, TCE was used for many purposes, including making decaffeinated coffee" ... This is exactly the reason I never touched decaf coffee until I found Swiss water process (SWP) decaf. It never made sense to me to use hydrocarbon solvents in a food application
Thank you to share abuot SWP. I didn't know about it. This page explains how it works: https://www.haymancoffee.com/blogs/coffee-blog/how-is-coffee... At this point, it looks like the solvent thing is probably overstated (in highly developed/regulated countries)). This page has info about the history of different solvents: https://www.coffeereview.com/coffee-reference/coffee-categor...
I thought the SWP involved supercritical carbon dioxide, but apparently it just involves solubility tricks and sacrificial beans, and CO2 is the new, new method.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ethanol is not a hydrocarbon, nor is TCE. By definition, a hydrocarbon is composed of carbon and hydrogen. Ethanol contains oxygen, while TCE contains chlorine.
Ethanol is technically an alcohol hydrocarbon, if we're getting into the weeds on semantics.
What is an "alcohol hydrocarbon"? Alcohol isn't a hydrocarbon. As already pointed out a hydrocarbon is comprised entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
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Duvets at least you can buy machine washable covers for.
yes! But I've also embarrassed myself more than once by spilling coffee (or, ahem, some other liquid) on my eider-down duvet. Moreover, the properties of a duvet cover that could keep the duvet safe from such insults -- namely, a tight weave, and water resistance -- also make it sweaty at night. While highly prized, I've decided that eider down is simply not a practical material for either my jackets nor my bedding.…
No geese are harmed in the making of eiderdown either (eiders are ducks and the down is collected from their nests, not from animals.)
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Alot of socioeconomic factors are baked into the above co-morbidities but anyway, is there a reason to think that veterans of two different marine camps have significantly different socioeconomic profiles from eachother?
In this case (Lejeune vs Pendleton), there would likely not be a substantial socioeconomic difference between the collective backgrounds of Marines who did basic training at either one. But comparing either camp to OCS at Quantico would, in fact, show a pretty stark delineation between the socioeconomic backgrounds.
There might not have been much difference between them at the time, but who knows how their lives went after their time there?
Some might have wound up being relatively wealthy compared to the rest, and that could have influenced their long-term health.
We won't know until we check.