Avian flu: what you need to know

• Pandemic Flu Information:  World Health Organization and US Government
• Key Facts about Avian Influenza:  Centers for Disease Control

• Betel Nut Use Linked to Oral Cancer. Diana Parsell, Palm-Nut Problem. Science News, January 15, 2005, Volume 167: 43-44.
• Aunchalee Loscalzo has posted some of her research data on betel chewing in Echang. And these articles by Roger Sullivan and others on betel nut and mental health disorders are very interesting—
  • Psychotropic substance seeking: evoutionary pathology or adaptation?  R.J. Sullivan, E.H. Hagen. 2002. Addiction, 97:4, 389-400
  • The effects of chewing betel nut (Areca catechu) on the symptoms of people with schizophrenia in Palau, Micronesia.  R.J. Sullivan, J.S. Allen, C. Otto, J. Tiobech, K. Nero. 2000. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 177: 174-178.
  • Social deficits associated with schizophrenia defined in terms of interpersonal Machiavellianism.  R.J. Sullivan, J.S. Allen. 1999. Acta Psychiatric Scandinavica, 99: 148-154.
• The Discussion on Betel Nut Chewing was lively on the old FOTI Forum.

Diabetes

• What is diabetes?   Brochure from Centers for Disease Control
• 10,000 steps is all it takes to make a difference! And you can start with 10 minutes a day!
  Watch the MicSem video here.
• Diabetes: basic information from the CDC on diabetes and its complications and tips on how to be active, eat right, and prevent diabetes.
• Diabetes in the Pacific: A MicSem Resource Page: One out of five Micronesians over 40 has diabetes. MicSem talks about what it is and what we can do about it.

Hypertension—High Blood Pressure
Read this to find out what you can do to lower your blood pressure!

Smoking: the leading preventable cause of death in the world

• Mac Marshall's 2005 paper on tobacco use in Micronesia: Carolina in the Carolines: A Survey of Patterns and Meanings of Smoking on a Micronesian Island. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(4):365-382.
• Peter Black's 1984 paper on the role of tobacco within Tobian society: The Anthropology of Tobacco Use: Tobian Data and Theoretical Issues. Journal of Anthropological Research 40:457-503.

Tylenol & drinking: Don't Mix Them. Find out why here!

• Tylenol mixed with alcohol can cause stomach upset; liver damage; rapid heartbeat. Read the brochure from National Institutes of Health.
• Liver damage can occur if you take as few as four to five extra strength acetaminophen (Tylenol) pills in one day if you are drinking.

Updated: September 10, 2020