Shrimp's on the house - and in the tap water - in New York City
Itty bitty invisible shrimp called copepods are in every drop of New York City tap water, according to Time Magazine and a New Yorker who put his tap water under the microscope recently.
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In New York City, the shrimp’s on the house
Tiny, invisible crustaceans called copepods are in every glass of tap water New Yorkers drink. They’re harmless, Time Magazine pointed out, but may not be kosher. Those disgusted by the discovery can get rid of them with a filter. The copepods captured the public’s attention after a reddit user put his tap water under the microscope and uploaded the pics.
Booze, sex, chocolate OK (in moderation)
CNN gave us reason this week to feel a lot less guilty about guilty pleasures with its list of 10 vices that are good for you. Those would be: 1. Sleep; 2. Playing hooky; 3. Sex; 4. Chocolate every day; 5. Nights out with friends; 6. Full-fat foods; 7. Coffee; 8. Sun. 9. Massage; 10. Alcohol - especially wine.
Exercise a decent prescription for allergies
It’s allergy season. The website How stuff works teamed up with Discovery Health to offer up tips on how changing one’s lifestyle can alter allergies, including exercise, a eating well-balanced diet and avoiding the cigs.
Juliana Keeping is a health and environment reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at julianakeeping@annarbor.com or 734-623-2528. Follow Juliana Keeping on Twitter
Comments
Speechless
Sat, Sep 4, 2010 : 1:43 p.m.
This is bad news for NY vegetarians who lack a good water filtration system. At least the conepods lead happy, free-range lives prior to exiting the faucet. Quality time is important. And these teeny crustaceans' strong physiology gives them super-human strength to resist internal subversion by fluoride, an element long part of an "international conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids," as we solemnly learned at local theaters during the Cold War era.
Atticus F.
Fri, Sep 3, 2010 : 1:12 p.m.
FreedomOfSpeech, places that don't have floride in the water are notorius for having severe dental problems...Look at England, and people who in rural areas that grew up on well water. Also, I've never really heard of many negative consequinces of drinking floride in water...As far as I know, areas that use florinated water don't any higher health risk than areas that dont.
FreedomOfSpeech
Fri, Sep 3, 2010 : 11:08 a.m.
Atticus F, Good point... I don't think a microscope will show the fluoride and score of other Chems in the water of A2 though. However anyone can look up "Fluoride Toxicity Reports by Decade" on Google etc. Then ask yourselves why Dexter after all these years added it to their water and what did the so called experts have to gain, if anything? Dental School students are brainwashed but just a modicum of research will show even them that the type of fluoride that would have a miniscule amount of benefit for human teeth isn't even the type that is put in the water. It's scary... I'm waiting for the spin on how the NYC shrimp is better than tainted gulf shrimp &/or cesspool raised, Far East shrimp.
Atticus F.
Fri, Sep 3, 2010 : 9:51 a.m.
You should try looking at Ann Arbor water under a microscope.