Paws for a Cause 2009

February 27, 2009
by Rodney Olsen
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Paws_for_a_Cause.JPGI mentioned earlier this week that today would be spent celebrating Paws for a Cause 2009 with the RSPCA on 98.5 Sonshine FM.

From 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. I was joined by fellow announcer Tim Long and a number of special guests broadcasting live from Perth’s Forrest Place.

We spoke to Richard Barry from the RSPCA as well as RSPCA Ambassador Jessica Bratich and Channel 10 Weather Presenter Michael Shultz. My regular Friday morning guest, Jill Bonanno, was also part of the broadcast. You can see us hamming it up in the photo in this post.

It was an honour to spend the day supporting the RSPCA and its on going work protecting, housing and healing animals in need.

You can check out the photo gallery to see a few more pictures from the day.



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What it said versus what I read

February 27, 2009
by Rodney Olsen
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Do you ever read something and then draw your own conclusions?

Sometimes you’ve just got to come to your own kind of understanding.

This is part of what the News.com.au article titled Drinking coffee may reduce skin cancer said:

A US study has found caffeine plays a protective role for damaged skin by boosting the body’s natural process called apoptosis, or synchronised cell suicide.

Several earlier studies have linked drinking tea or coffee with a lower incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer, and scientists are now working to find out why.

It also follows a 2007 study of more than 93,000 women, which found for each additional cup of coffee they drank they had a 5 per cent decreased risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer.

Drinking de-caffeinated coffee showed no such benefit.

Prof Mann, an expert in the genetic and environmental causes of skin cancer, said there was mounting evidence that caffeine played a “modest” role in preventing skin cancer.

“There are reasonable data from human epidemiology studies, supported by laboratory and animal studies, that caffeine, whether in tea or coffee, has a modest protective effect on skin cancer risk,” he said.

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