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You hold your seven pound miracle for the first time and fall completely in love. You bring that bundle home determined to shield her from all that might harm her. At some point you give your bundle of joy her first official at home bath. You may even commemorate the occasion on video. You reach for the bottle of shampoo to lather those downy locks and then massage in a liberal amount of lotion on her skin.  It is what nuturing parents do. Now there is a study that suggests what was a bonding moment might really be unintentionally causing harm.

The University of Washington study found that baby lotions, shampoos and powders are strongly associated with higher levels of chemical compounds, known as phthalates in the urine of babies. These phthalates are involved in the fragrances one associates with products. Since companies are not required to list components of fragrances the consumer does not have a way of knowing the amount of phthalates we are putting on our children. The reality is newborns do not need to bathe everyday. Nor do they need bubbles in their bath, plain water will work just fine. It is not like they are going to find the nearest mud hole and take a dip.

Limiting the number of fragrant products used on your little one is not that big a sacrifice, after all wouldn’t you do anything to keep them safe? You can always put the savings in unpurchased products into the little darling’s college fund until the experts sort this out.

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Okay folks, this one you have got to read to believe but I will get a try at explaining it. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford’s business school have directly seen that the sensation of pleasantness that people experience when tasting wine is linked directly to its price. What is the really funny part of this study is that pricing a $10 wine at $90 the study group found more pleasure in the taste of the wine!

“Contrary to the basic assumptions of economics, several studies have provided behavioral evidence that marketing actions can successfully affect experienced pleasantness by manipulating nonintrinsic attributes of goods. For example, knowledge of a beer’s ingredients and brand can affect reported taste quality, and the reported enjoyment of a film is influenced by expectations about its quality,” the researchers said. “Even more intriguingly, changing the price at which an energy drink is purchased can influence the ability to solve puzzles.”

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While BRCA1 is a rare genetic mutation, finding it in different racial and ethnic groups was a surprise. Particularly surpising was finding the rate so high in black women below the age of 35.

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Got an email this morning entitled “John Hopkins Cancer Update” now having been around the internet long enough to know that even well meaning people can get caught up in a hoax, I decided to do a bit of research to see if the claim in the email was true or not.

If a prestigious university, like Johns Hopkins, made the claim that microwaving food in plastic containers was a way to get cancer then that would be news — something carried by major news outlets. Getting confirmation of the fact, if it was a fact, would be easy.

First off, the email referred to Johns Hopkins’ newsletter, so starting at Johns Hopkins and its current newsletter revealed a nothing on the topic. The next step was a Google search for article with “cancer” and “John Hopkins” in the search terms. The search lead to two credible sources. The Baltimore Sun article Myth-Information Lives which suggested what I had in my email was a hoax. The article is dated August 31, 2007.

The next source was Sidney Kimmel Center at Johns Hopkins. In News and Events section there is an Kimmel e-wire entry ”Baltimore Sun features the mythbusters in Kimmel Cancer Center PR office” that links to an entry entitled Myth-busting at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Center. Within the release is a link to a statement from the Kimmel Center. The statement says indeed the email is a hoax. The statement is dated March 2007.

That statement leads to an interview with researcher, Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Water and Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in which he also states the claims in the email are false. He does recommend following the directions on the label of plastic products as some plastics do not recommend exposure to heat.

It took longer to write this blog entry than it did to find out the email was a hoax and find out definitively what Johns Hopkins had to say on the Cancer Update email.

For the web savvy, there is http://www.snopes.com. In the search function put the term “cancer” and the Cancer Update from John Hopkins comes up as number two on the list as of September 26, 2007. So don’t be fooled people by stuff that comes in your email and for goodness sake, don’t pass it on without doing a bit of checking first. Let’s see if we can keep some of these hoaxes from living long enough to become email legends.