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Aboriginal Skull Reveals the past's changing shape
by Nicky Phillips, Sydney Morning Herald 26 July 2010
ELEVEN thousand years ago a tall and solidly built Aboriginal man lived a hard life. His bones reveal he had arthritis in his jaw, multiple breaks in both forearms and a fractured ankle so severe his shin bones fused together.
''Death might have been something to look forward to for him,'' the palaeoanthropologist Peter Brown said.
But since the skeleton, known as Nacurrie, was discovered in 1948 near Swan Hill on the Murray River it has been the changes to his skull that have been of most interest to Professor Brown.
The shape of his cranium suggests Aborigines practised body modification, manipulating the contour of the skull, he said.
Nacurrie appears to be the earliest example of the practice anywhere in the world, he said.
''You can only change the shape of the head in a baby because the skull is soft and malleable so it can pass through the birth canal,'' Professor Brown, who works at the University of New England, said.
The skeleton of Nacurrie suggests his skull shape was modified by subtle means, probably by massage from his mother's hands. Several other skeletons found in the Murray-Darling area also had modified skulls.
''It is clear from the archaeological record that a group of people living on the Murray River used to do this … between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago.''
Professor Brown said massaging the skull did not cause brain damage because the brain was a flexible organ. The practice was probably done for aesthetic reasons, but no one knows why it had stopped in Aborigines, he said.
Cranium manipulation has been common throughout different cultures. By some reports, it was the most popular type of body modification after circumcision, said Professor Brown, whose findings are published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
In Papua New Guinea some mothers would bind their babies' heads with a tight bandage, which created a cone shape, while in South America babies were strapped to cradleboards, creating a flat-shaped head, he said.

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TICK REMOVAL - another great old wives tail for your resources!

Tick removal



Spring will be here soon and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.

Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, or anyone who even steps outside in summer!!

A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share -- And it really works!!

I had a paediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.

Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball.. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.

Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say, "It worked!"

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It's LUST, and not Gluttony or Sloth, that is to blame for the Obesity Crisis

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POOR SLEEP WILL INCREASE THE RISK OF DIABETES

A recent finding relating to lifestyle risk is the association between lack of sleep and Type 2 diabetes.

Humans, it seems, were designed to get around seven to eight hours sleep a night and they did, until Thomas Edison came along and invented the light bulb. Since then and with the advent of night-time entertainment and liberal amounts of money to spend, today, we are twice as likely to get less than seven hours a night than those living a generation ago.

So what does this mean? According to a new study from the National Institutes of Health in the US, those who sleep less than six hours a night have almost a 400 per cent increased risk of diabetes compared to those who sleep from six to eight hours a night.

There seems to be no effect of sleep longer than eight hours, although previous studies have also shown a mild increase in risk with this group.

What is your risk? Try this Sleepiness Test. The reason for the increased effect is not known. It’s possible, of course, that short sleepers have bad lifestyles – poor diet, inactivity, smoking etc. - which may account for the effect.

Yet even where these factors are accounted for statistically, the effect remains. Hormonal changes are the other possible causative factor and researchers are now focusing on this.

Still, the words of Bon Jovi - “I’ll live while I’m alive and sleep while I’m dead” - could be ringing in scientists’ ears. Those who take up this mantra may actually be dead earlier than they think. For more information on healthy sleep, check out this Lifestyle Medicine article.
Source: Troy Rogan Nine MSN Aug 2009