Dispensary Corner 04 May 10
May 4, 2010
A HAPPY family - not!
A US woman has called police
to arrest her son after she found
him stealing Xanax from her bra.
The mother said she was rudely
awoken before dawn to find the
28-year-old filching the
prescription sedatives from her
underwear, where she kept it to
stop him from stealing it.
Officers arrested the young man
after finding him hiding under a
neighbour’s car with 15 Xanax
tablets wrapped in toilet paper
and hidden in his sock.
THE future of the USA’s global
military dominance could be
undermined by growing obesity
rates among young people,
according to two retired generals.
John Shalikashvili and Hugh
Shelton are both former chairmen
of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and wrote an article in the
Washington Post which stated that
more than 25% of young
Americans are now too fat to fight.
“We consider this problem so
serious from a national security
perspective that we have joined
more than 130 other retired
generals, admirals and senior
military leaders in calling on
Congress to pass new child
nutrition legislation,” they wrote.
“We must act...to ensure that
our children can one day defend
our country, if need be”.
A STUDY published last week has
found that inhaling oxytocin can
make men more understanding of
other people’s feelings.
Oxytocin, described at the
“cuddle hormone”, was given via
nasal spray to volunteers who were
then quizzed as to their emotional
response to pictures of a crying
child, a grieving man and a girl
hugging her cat.
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