Dispensary Corner 04 Aug 10
August 4, 2010
PET care and exercise together.
Two Germans have kicked off
what will be an epic test of fitness
and endurance, with seven of
their pet ducks.
Kicking-off earlier in the week
the pair, Pia Marie Witt and Wilfried
Arnold embarked on a 500-
kilometre swim along the Fulda
and Weser rivers, with the aim of
reaching the North Sea next month.
The couple are aiming at
conquering between 10-15kms of
river per day.
The ducks however, not built for
long distance swimming, will join
them in the water for around 20
minutes a day, before settling
onto a boat following the couple
for a lazy afternoon’s nap.
YOU’RE not obese, you’re fat!
UK Minister for Public Health
Ann Milton has told the media
that GPs and healthcare
professionals should call patients
fat rather than obese in order to
better motivate them into
dropping a few kilos.
“If I look in the mirror and think
I am obese I think I am less
worried [than] if I think I am fat,”
Milton said.
Steve Field, a member of the
Royal College of General
Practitioners welcomed Milton’s
comments, saying that healthcare
workers need to be honest with
patients, and stop telling them
what they want to hear.
PROFESSOR pleased.
Rather than getting angry, a
chemistry professor, Scott Burr, at
the Adolphus College in
Minnesota, has praised his
students’ attention to detail after
returning from holidays to find his
office had been completely
wrapped in aluminiumfoil.
According to reports, changing
the professor’s room is an annual
tradition, and past incarnations
have seen his office turned into a
pirate ship and coloured in pink.
This year however the prank
involved some 10,200 rolls of
alfoil, which wrapped everything,
including individual books, pens
and even a solo kleenex tissue!
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