WEIRD STUFF: 55 batteries found in woman’s stomach

55 batteries found in woman's stomach

A woman was found to have 55 batteries in her stomach after a hospital trip.

Staff at St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin revealed that the 66-year-old patient had a total of 55 batteries in her body after an X-ray identified the foreign objects.

Doctors had hoped that she would pass the batteries naturally, but she was only able to get rid of five as the rest got stuck.

When she started experiencing stomach cramps, doctors realised that her distended stomach was hanging above the pubic bone due to the weight of the batteries. They ha no choice but to take action.

A report on the incident, published in the Irish Medical Journal, said: "To the best of our knowledge, this case represents the highest reported number of batteries ingested at a single point in time."

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Diets are no healthier than 30 years ago

A new study has seen researchers rank diets on a scale from 0 to 100, with 0 being junk food and 100 representing a healthy, balanced diet.

Regionally, averages ranged from as low as 30.3 in Latin America and the Caribbean to as high as 45.7 in South Asia.

Poor diet is a leading cause of illness, responsible for 26 per cent of preventable death worldwide.

Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, of Tufts University in the US, said: "We found too few healthy foods and too many unhealthy foods were contributing to global challenges in achieving the recommended dietary quality."

Mozaffarian claims that the world's population needs a greater incentive to eat healthily.

He added: "This suggests that policies that incentivise and reward more healthy foods, such as in healthcare, employer wellness programmes and nutrition programmes may have a substantial impact on improving nutrition."

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Football games leaving men stressed

Watching football is the biggest cause of stress for men.

Seven out of 10 guys have confessed that seeing their team in action made them more tense than the fear of going bald as controversial VAR decisions and penalty misses leave men pulling their hair out.

A staggering 68 per cent of males revealed that financial concerns have kept them awake while 30 per cent stress about the size of their penis. Buying a home (58 per cent) and asking someone on a date (36 per cent) also cause men to fret.

Cosmetic surgery specialists longevita.co.uk quizzed more than 2,000 men on their biggest concerns and were surprised by the results.

Spokesman Kagen Seymenoglu said: "The results shocked us.

"We expected the most common causes of stress to be money, dating and work.

"What we didn't expect was the level of stress men go through watching their favourite team."

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Old heart found in fossil

The world's oldest heart has been found in a 380-million-year-old fossil.

Experts from Curtin University in Australia discovered the heart in a "beautifully preserved" fossil of an ancient jawed fish. A separate fossilised stomach, intestine and liver were also identified - with the position of the organs similar to that of a modern shark.

The researchers hope that the discovery will shed further light on the evolution of the human body.

Professor Kate Trinajstic, who led the study, said: "Evolution is often thought of as a series of small steps, but these ancient fossils suggest there was a larger gap between jawless and jawed vertebrates.

"These fish literally have their hearts in their mouths and under their gills - just like sharks today."

The fossil was found in the Gogo Formation in Western Australia and the team were stunned to find that the organs were still intact.

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