Plastic Surgery, Baked Beans and a Rat Hitchhiker!
We kick off with the fascinating tale of a Los Angeles plastic surgeon, Dr. Tess Mauricio, who experienced a boom in facelift procedures during the Hollywood strikes. She walks us through her innovative $2,500 treatment that tackles all signs of skin...
We kick off with the fascinating tale of a Los Angeles plastic surgeon, Dr. Tess Mauricio, who experienced a boom in facelift procedures during the Hollywood strikes. She walks us through her innovative $2,500 treatment that tackles all signs of skin aging, with actress Tracy Toms testifying to the results.
Our next stop is Australia, where we celebrate Ken Weeks, the country's oldest man at 110 years, who has a love for baked beans like no other. Heinz honored Ken's unwavering devotion with a specially designed can featuring his portrait.
Then, we travel back in time to discover that red hair has been around for 10 million years, as evidenced by the molecular remnants of pheomelanin found in ancient frog fossils. Paleontologists Dr. Slater gives insight into how this revelation will shape our understanding of animal evolution and coloration.
Coffee lovers will rejoice at our next story, where the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that an extra cup of unsweetened coffee a day could aid weight loss.
We close with the humorous account of Kevin, a Brooklyn resident whose journey to an upstate New York wedding was interrupted by an unexpected hitchhiker - a rat. Listen in and enjoy these positive tales.
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The Shark Deck. Hello again,
I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.
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One Los Angeles plastic surgeon did thirty
percent more facelifts during the recent Hollywood
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Strikes Wow. Doctor Tess Mauricio said, some of my patients expected a resolution
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would come within a month or two, so they didn't really feel financially strapped
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to be conservative with their spending.
She explained. The twenty five hundred dollars
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treatment is a combination of advanced energy
based skin resurfacing, which requires up to
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five days of downtime, and it
utilizes lasers and radio frequencies, growth factors
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via platelet rich plasm and collagen induction
therapy. She adds this can address all
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signs of skin aging, including wrinkles, sagging skin, ibags, droopy eyelids,
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and large pores. Actress Tracy Thoms
told The Hollywood Reporter, I was
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swollen, I couldn't wear makeup for
a few days, and it takes time
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to look like yourself again. The
time Machine procedure help refresh my skin and
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this was the time to do it. Ken Weeks turned one hundred and ten
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years old, officially Australia's oldest man, and he loved baking beads since he
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was a young boy. He loved
him in school, he loved him when
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he married his wife, Jean,
and after Jean passed away, he still
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loved him. Ken's son, Ian
said, after mom died, he bachelored
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himself and he liked a full breakfast, so baked beans on toast was irregular.
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Ken was still a resident in his
family house until his one hundredth birthday,
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but around one hundred and five,
working the can opener became a bit
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of a problem, so Ken moved
into residential care, but that didn't stop
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his love of bake beans. Over
at Hines, they heard of his devotion,
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they decided to honor him with his
own can. Andrea Payne, head
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of marketing at Hines, said,
we started the work designing the cans with
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a portrait of Ken and a personalized
message, and in order to not disrupt
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normal production, each label was hand
applied in time for Ken's birthday. A
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total of three hundred cans were made, enough for everyone at Ken's facility to
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get some beans for the next six
months. What's Ken's secret to longevity?
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Come on figure it out. Bake
beans a good news if you have red
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hair. It's been around for ten
million years. Paleontologists discovered molecular evidence of
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theomelanin the pigment that causes the coloration. They found it in some fossilized frogs
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that are ten million years old.
Doctor Slater says the finding of soak siding
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because it puts palaeontologists in a better
place to detect different melanin pigments and many
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more fossils. This will paint a
more accurate picture of ancient animal color and
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will answer important questions about the evolution
of color and animals. In humans,
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red hair is specifically mentioned in people's
as far back as ancient Greece. Roughly
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ten percent of the population are red
added hey, good news for me.
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Experts claim that drinking an extra cup
of coffee every day could help with weight
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loss. Done the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition is found that adding an extra
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cup of unsweetened coffee unsweetened coffee,
ah, he is rude? It well
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anyway, it can reduce the risk
of gaining weight over a four year period,
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but beware, adding sugar is a
no no uh. However, adding
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creamer non dairy coffee did not have
an effect either way. Aaron Polinski Wade,
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a New Jersey based dieitician, said
increasing intake of a warm loadino calorie
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beverage may improve body weight as increasing
fluids, especially warm fluids, can help
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you feel full, which may lead
to fewer overall calories consumed throughout the day.
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Hey, good news for a rat. He went for a ride to
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upstate New York. Kevin was on
his way to a wedding. He drove
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from Brooklyn to the Catskills. He
was almost there when suddenly, out of
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his engine a rat, and he
captured this on video. He yelled,
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Holy heck, I had to go
way up state and I brought a rat
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with me. The rat checked out
the side view mirror and then walked back
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to safety and across the windshield wipers. Then the rat vanished. Kevin pulled
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over, popped the hood looking for
the rat. Then the rat reappeared.
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Then it ducked into a small hole
and he didn't find it again. Kevin
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eventually got bored and kept driving one
hundred and thirty mile trip and said,
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I don't know where it went.
Just don't eat my wires. That's your
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five good news stories for today.
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