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PSA Test Remains Appropriate Prostate Cancer

Screening For Many Men

While there’s debate over the need for the prostate- exam are the initial screening tests for prostate cancer that PSA don’t necessarily rule out the possibility of cancer.
specific antigen (PSA) test to screen for prostate cancer, help determine whether or not a prostate biopsy is needed. Cleveland Clinic Florida urologists frequently use new
doctors at Cleveland Clinic Florida say PSA testing is still Generally, the PSA screening is encouraged in men tests to determine the need for prostate biopsy.
appropriate for many men. between the ages of 40 and 75, and in men with an Discuss your risk factors with your primary care
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, increased risk of prostate cancer. Since PSA testing was physician so you can determine if a PSA test should be
and the second leading cause of cancer death among men introduced in 1987, deaths from prostate cancer have performed.
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The Secret History Of Food: Strange But True

Stories About The Origins Of Everything We Eat

By Nils A. Shapiro

On Page 141 of this the World War II era, a new location opening every nine days. led to a key decision in 1893:
month’s selection, author Matt They were famous for their giant outdoor signage advertising “Supreme Court justices read
Siegel connects comments by 28 flavors of ice cream. This book’s chapter, “The Vanilla from various dictionaries and
two other writers to make an of Society,” points out among its many tasty facts that Mr. heard testimony from expert
interesting point: Johnson himself once admitted that most people simply witnesses before ultimately ruling
“Average Americans and preferred vanilla. that tomatoes were vegetables
Europeans not only live better Of course, while the author does not claim this as the reason because they ‘are, like potatoes,
than more than 99 percent of for the flavor’s overwhelming popularity, he does point out the carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets,
the human beings who have following: cauliflower, celery, and lettuce,
ever existed, they live better “ ... vanilla is one of the few ice cream flavors to be usually served at dinner...and
than most of the royalty of named after genitalia, thanks to Spanish conquistadors not, like fruits generally, as
history...gas-station minimarts who ‘discovered’ it in the sixteenth century and called it dessert.’”
now sell cabernets and chardonnays ‘far superior in quality vainilla, a Spanish derivative of the Latin vagina, because of Such other chapter titles as
to the wines once drunk by the kings of France.’ Today its resemblance when spread open to harvest its seeds (and “A History of Swallowing,” “Pie, Progress, and Plymouth
supermarkets offer at low cost dozens of items almost anyone probably because they hadn’t seen their wives in a long time). Rock,” “Breakfast of Champions” and “Honey Laundering”
who has ever lived considered unattainable delicacies and They then brought the plants back home to Europe and spent further attest to the variety of topics and the author’s sense
died without tasting.” three hundred years trying in vain to pollinate them because of humor.
It is an interesting point most of us never even think about. they couldn’t find the rostellum. (Insert clitoris joke here.)” One doesn’t often find on a literary menu a tasty
And by the time you reach that paragraph in this 270-page One of the things we learn in the chapter, “Attack of the smorgasbord of hearty information, served with a generous
book, (193 of text plus 77 of Notes and Index), you will already Killer Tomatoes,” is that it took six years of escalating court helping of sweet wit. I strongly recommend that you place
have learned many hundreds of surprising, even shocking, facts battles before the U.S. Supreme Court took the case that your order for The Secret History of Food as soon as possible.
about a subject that consumes us every day of our lives.
Even better, the whole is served up deliciously by a writer
with a sense of humor that prompted one reviewer to describe
this as “a laugh-out-loud funny read.”
Siegel has written about food and culture for such
publications as The Atlantic, Fast Company, and The Paris
Review. He is a former English professor who lives with his
dog, Waffles. Having now read The Secret History of Food, I
would unhesitatingly place him at the top of my list of ideal
dinner companions. Est. 1926
It is clear that the author has done a great deal of research in The Heart of Hobe Sound
the development of this book. He covers an impressive range
of topics related to this one subject, taking us on a journey
that extends from mankind’s earliest days on this planet to ART CLASSES OFFERED WE are YOUR Community
the present day – and includes both the ways in which humans ON THE CHURCH CAMPUS Church
have altered the very nature of the foods we eat and the impact Church member Debra Monet is offering
that foods have had on us, physically and psychologically. art classes on our church campus. All Visitors Welcome
As just one example of human intervention, here is an How to draw, paint in Watercolor and
excerpt from the chapter on corn (originally called teosinte); We Invite You to Worship with Us
some of the text has been omitted for lack of space: Acrylic will be the main focus for the Every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
“We’re not even sure what the people who first ate teosinte lessons. The cost for each 3 hour class WE ARE ON FACEBOOK LIVE
actually did with it; for starters, an ear of it contained only five is $20, a portion of which will be donated to every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m.
to twelve kernels compared to the five to twelve hundred on an the Church building Improvement Project. Give us a call or visit our
ear of corn today, and each of them was only around one-tenth For more class details, or to schedule a class,
the weight of a modern kernel. So an entire ear of teosinte contact Debra Monet at the Sunday coffee hour, website for more information.
would have been about the size of a cigarette, though probably or call her at 772-240-2063. Everyone is welcome. (772) 546-5043
shorter. And there wasn’t a central cob, so you couldn’t eat the www.heartofhobesound.org
whole thing ... You could eat only the tiny kernels, which were
individually wrapped in an almost impenetrable outer casing MONTHLY DINNERS
... Yet for some reason our ancestors saw potential in this lowly Monthly dinners to help offset some of the almost $350,000 in
grass and kept replanting it, choosing only the seeds with the renovation cost to our Church – Dinner will be held on the 2nd Friday
most attractive traits – say, height, girth, tenderness, and disease of the month at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $15 per person
resistance – until it grew into a tall and dependable grain they SEPTEMbEr 9 - ITALIANO
OCTObEr 14 - bAr-b-Q
could live on. So it was a lot like dating in high school.” NOVEMbEr 11 - CHICKEN
Those of us of a certain age will remember the ubiquitous
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the nation’s highways and dotted big cities during and after