Incredibly useful and well-done website

Hi folks!

In today’s post, I’m going to give you a link everybody should click on. The website is called life-saver.org.uk. I discovered it yesterday and was quite impressed by how well it is made. On this site, you will learn how to save a person’s life, if he or she is choking, or having a cardiac arrest. Quite useful, isn’t it?

There are three scenarios in which you embody one of the characters. Along the story, plenty of questions are asked, and you have to choose the right (the safest) answer. Some of these questions are tricky, but the answers will probably prevent you from making fatal mistakes.

I don’t know if you’ve been trained for first aid, I have, and for a couple of days, I’ve been wondering if I would still be able to perform first aid correctly (where to put my hands for CPR, etc.). This website was perfect to refresh what I had learnt.

So now, instead of watching cats flushing the toilet on Youtube, I would advise you to give this site a shot. And don’t hesitate to share it, as I did, so that this website reaches as many people as possible.

Thanks UK!

https://life-saver.org.uk/#/INTRO

Bonus: CPR stands for ???

CardioPulmonary Resuscitation.

Or is it Colorado Public Radio?

Sugar = not good

Hello folks!

A friend of mine posted this Youtube video on Facebook. She is a vegan and she is very concerned about the problems related to health, environment (we all should!). Last year, she did a presentation on overfishing, just to give you an example. Anyway, this video will explain you why sugar is “a threat to us”.

Most of us are not doctors and this presentation may go into detail and use the medical jargon sometimes, but the main idea is definitely understandable.

The man who is presenting is Dr. Robert H. Lustig, professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, but is also a pediatric endocrinologist. Now, you may wonder, my fellow linguists, what on earth is pediatric endocrinology? Well, it’s basically “ a subspecialty dealing with variations of physical growth and sexual development in childhood”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

If you like coke and that kind of drinks, you better drink one before watching this video, because afterwards, I’m not sure you will still feel like it…