It fits like a glove I tell you!
(1) WHY BURN DOCTORS HATE INSTANT SOUP
“Instant cups of soup — the kind that often come in a Styrofoam cup full of noodles — send children to the hospital every day. "I don't have them in my house," says Dr. Warren Garner, director of the burn unit at University of Southern California's County Hospital in Los Angeles. "I would say that we see at least two to three patients a week who've been injured by these products.”
These soups are dangerous because of the way the cups are designed. The cups are tall, lightweight, and have an unstable base that makes them tip over easily. At Garner's unit, the most common cases are small children, often toddlers, accidentally tipping the cup over on to themselves.
"It pulls down on top of them," Garner says. "The hot liquid then burns their chest, arms, torso, sometimes their privates, occasionally their legs." He says there's no other injury that he sees as regularly that can be so directly attributed to a product's design, and calls these soups "uniquely troublesome."
Through calls to a dozen burn units at hospitals across the country, we learned that this is a common phenomenon, with children being the most frequent victims. Eight of the 12 hospitals said they see the injury several times a week. One hospital located in Washington D.C. says they regularly see 5-6 patients a week with the injury, especially during the colder months.
Noodle soup is strangely perfect for delivering a serious burn. The sticky noodles cling to the skin, which leads to deeper, more severe burns, according to a study published in 2007. The study showed that hospital stays for upper body noodle-soup burns are more than twice as long as scalds from hot liquids alone. Garner says that about one in five children he sees with the burns end up needing surgery, and these patients can face permanent scarring and limited mobility in their joints.”
(2) A DISSOLVING FRUIT STICKER THAT CLAIMS SOAP SUPERPOWERS
“Scott Amron really doesn't like peeling those little stickers off fruit from the grocery store. "They're pesky and annoying and they create waste," he tells The Salt. So, he decided to do something about it.
"I thought [the labels] could serve some sort of secondary purpose rather than being thrown away," says Amron, a New York-based designer and engineer who's best known for inventing the Brush & Rinse toothbrush. "Originally I wanted the label to help clean the fruit, and that evolved into having it dissolve."
Today, Amron's firm is preparing to roll out Fruitwash, a sticker that turns into a soap under running water. Once dissolved, the Fruitwash allegedly removes wax, pesticides, and dirt from fruit and vegetables. And while he won't reveal what the sticker is made of, Amron says it contains all "organic" ingredients.”
(3) ANDERSON COOPER, EAT YOUR VEGETABLES!
Dear Anderson Cooper, you’re a silver fox.
xoxoxox - Jenna
[[Today's random]]
(1) YUKI MATSUEDA
(2) LORETTA YOUNG
One of the most beautiful women I've seen in my entire life.
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(4) I WANT THIS KITCHEN
(5) MEGAPHONE - UNIQUE UNPOWERED AMPLIFIER
[[Today’s food clip (s)]]
(1) THE GENTLEMAN'S RANT - FAST FOOD
(2) THE PERENNIAL PLATE – EATING INSECTS
(3) ANTHONY BOURDAIN - NO RESERVATIONS - FOOD PORN
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