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Celebrities With Gallstone Surgeries

Celebrities With Gallstone Surgeries. Looking for celebrities with gallstones? We’re surprised to find out that several high profile people – from the Dalai Lama to Eric Clapton – had gallstone problems.

Dalai Lama: In October 2008, the Dalai Lama underwent a gall bladder surgery in hospital in Mumbai, India which resulted in the removal of multiple gallstones. According to Agence France Presse, the keyhole procedure or laparoscopy involved the use of a “thin, lighted tube with a miniature video camera to enable doctors to see the location of the organs and any stones”.

Celebrities With Gallstone Surgeries Dalai Lama

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Is McDonald’s Fruitizz Healthy or Calorie-Ridden?

Is Fruitizz a healthier alternative to Coke or Pepsi? Or is it the same-old same-old calorie-ridden drink that will make your kids fat?

Listening to the sales pitch of McDonald’s execs about Fruitizz would make you think that the world’s biggest fast food chain has finally found an answer to criticisms that it is promoting unhealthy eating. However, critics argue that Fruitizz actually contains 200 calories and 49 grams of sugar and that a large drink of the supposed healthy alternative “has more sugar than a can of Fanta”. According to The Sun, 45 grams is equivalent to 12 teaspoons of sugar so that’s really a lot, no? Can you imagine yourself putting 12 teaspoons of sugar in your cup of coffee or tea?

But what are the ingredients of Fruitizz anyway? McDonalds has not released a detailed list of ingredients for its supposedly “healthy” drink but news reports state that it is “a blend of apple, grape and raspberries topped with sparkling water”.

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Celebrities With Tinnitus: Shatner, Letterman, Streisand, & Reagan

Did you know that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin is afflicted with tinnitus? We didn’t either but he revealed recently that he was diagnosed with the condition nearly ten years ago and that it was caused by his propensity to listen to music oh-so-loudly when he was a teenager.

For those of you not familiar with it, tinnitus is a condition where one hears phantom noise — such as buzzing, humming, hissing, ringing, roaring — that are not actually there. It is more common than you think (one in five reportedly has it) and, aside from constant exposure to loud noise, it can be cause by other factors such as earwax blockage, medication, age-related hearing loss, stress and depression, high blood pressure, and many more.

Aside from Chris Martin, here are eight other celebrities with tinnitus:

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Is Drinking Hand Sanitizer Safe or Dangerous? Side Effects & Health Risks

California health authorities worried over teens getting drunk on hand sanitizer

Care for a shot of hand sanitizer? Apparently, a growing number of American teenagers do — and the odd but deadly new habit has already landed a number of them in hospital emergency rooms in Los Angeles this month.

The new trend has alarmed local public health officials so much that they held a press conference on April 24 at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, California.

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Nanotech in Food and Cosmetics: FDA Safety Guidelines

“In 1959, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist challenged his colleagues to use submicroscopic particles to manufacture a wide range of products,” the United States Food and Drug Administration writes in a consumer update on nanotechnology uploaded on its website on April 20.

The idea “captivated the imagination of scientists and inspired the science fiction movies ‘Fantastic Voyage’ and ‘Innerspace,’” the federal regulator continues. “Fifty years later, ‘nano’ (small) technology has moved from the science fiction realm to scientific fact, and federal regulators are laying the groundwork for monitoring a new generation of medical devices, drugs, cosmetics and other products,” the agency says.

Aware that consumer products using nanotechnology may have unknown effects on the human body, the U.S. health regulator is now advising companies in the food and cosmetic industries to study the safety of these tiny particles further.

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