ALWAYS follow the advice from a medical professional, when you are playing football, wear a mouthguard, when you ride a bike, wear a helmet, and when you carry an unlicensed gun around in your pocket, don a lead-plated codpiece.
If only an Indiana man had remembered that sage advice recently when he accidentally shot himself in the penis.
Mark Anthony Jones told doctors that he was reaching down to "adjust the gun" when it began to slip and fired.
While being attended to his painful wound in hospital, the news somehow got worse for Jones who was told by the authorities that he may now be facing criminal charges for not registering his weapon - now that really is below the belt.
hot chocolate could be a safe, easy way to reduce fatigue symptoms associated with inflammation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to international researchers.
Cocoa, found in chocolate, is rich in flavonoids, which have anti-inflammatory properties.
The team asked 40 people with MS to drink high- or low-flavonoid cocoa every day for six weeks.
They found those who drank high-flavonoid cocoa rated their fatigue as lower, and were also able to cover more distance in 6-minute walking tests.
If these results can be confirmed in larger studies, dark chocolate and cocoa could be an easy (and delicious) way to reduce fatigue symptoms, the researchers add.
See jnnp.bmj.com.
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