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Heartbreaking sushi

Can sushi break your heart? That鈥檚 the question posed by doctors writing in The BMJ, after a 60-year-old woman ate a mouthful of wasabi and went into cardiac arrest. The unnamed woman was attending a wedding in Israel when she mistook a bowl of the peppery horseradish paste for avocado.

She experienced pain in her limbs and went to hospital some time later, where doctors diagnosed her with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome. The condition arises when the heart鈥檚 left ventricle, responsible for pumping blood around the body, becomes enlarged and weakened. It is most often seen in older women experiencing emotional distress, such as the death of a loved one. Though serious, the condition is usually temporary. Following treatment, the wasabi-addled woman made a .

Buying limbs

Looking to get rich quick? The US military has a unique opportunity for you to net a cool $2 million. One catch: it will cost you an arm and a leg. Left or right, you choose. According to a procurement ad posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website, the US Army Medical Command needs fresh frozen limbs, presumably for use in ballistics testing or for training combat medics.

Either way, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve president and country 鈥� or possibly twice in a lifetime, if you are feeling particularly generous. The solicitation requests 16 arms (shoulder included) and 16 legs (pelvis to toe, sacrum included), so get a local rugby union team involved to really maximise your reward. We should specify that the ad does insist limbs should be taken from cadavers rather than volunteers, but if they really cared about getting a quality product, they wouldn鈥檛 have .

Gluten tag

鈥淭he coconut oil hand cream I bought recently smells good enough to eat,鈥� writes Christine Duncan. 鈥淚 hope that鈥檚 why the information on the tube tells me that the product doesn鈥檛 contain gluten, because otherwise I would have to conclude that the world is taking leave of its collective senses.鈥�

Before you raid the bathroom cabinet to whip up a batch of macaroons, Christine, be aware: our investigations tell us that the warning exists because topical applications of gluten can still prove irritating to coeliacs.

Nonetheless, Feedback has noticed a proliferation of 鈥済luten free鈥� labels in the local supermarket, often on items that have no obvious connection to any grain. While it is technically true that steak is gluten free, advertising this fact only serves to cast doubt on the coeliac-friendliness of the adjacent chicken breasts that sport no such label.

Which is, perhaps, the intention, as food sellers try to snatch some of the 鈥渃onscious consumption鈥� aura that a gluten free sticker bestows. Your most egregious examples of this labelling chicanery to the usual address, please.

Contra-noms

John Davies chides our faltering resolve when it comes to swearing off nominative determinism (we have a problem, this much is clear). He suggests a suitable prophylactic: dismantle our hypothesis by collecting names that work in the opposite way.

鈥淔or a start,鈥� says John, 鈥淚 give you David Pannick,鈥� the barrister who challenged the UK government鈥檚 prorogation of parliament. 鈥淚n his recent appearance before the Supreme Court, his performance was widely seen as the epitome of calm control.鈥�

Indeed, such anti-nominative determinism (or should that be nominative anti-determinism?) isn鈥檛 so hard to find. K Bundell flushes out Sarah Dry, author of the recently published Waters of the World. Meanwhile, Danielle Outlaw is a frequent fixture of the Feedback inbox, thanks to her role as chief of the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon. We are sure you have more 鈥� help wean us off this terrible addiction for good.

Dog days

鈥淎s someone with a very soft spot for rabbits and hares, I enjoyed your report of Peter Duffell鈥檚 testimony about literate lagomorphs in Northumberland,鈥� says Nigel Sinnott (31 August). 鈥淭here are literate dogs too, a little further south.鈥�

Walking in the outskirts of Sutton-in-Craven in Aire valley, UK, Nigel came across a cattle trough, above which was a notice with the stern message: 鈥淒ogs not allowed to drink at this trough鈥�.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 imagine Airedale鈥檚 literate canines took the slightest heed of the prohibition,鈥� he says.

Basket case

The perils of automation: Paul Huggett鈥檚 online search for the laxative CosmoCol returns the following advert at the top of his results: 鈥淕et Quality Constipation, Diarrhoea, IBS & Wind at Tesco.鈥� Is there nothing you can鈥檛 pick up at the supermarket these days?

Foreseeable errors

A colleague tells Feedback that 快猫短视频鈥榮 content editing system 鈥渙ffers the option to search for stories that were modified next week鈥�. That should make spotting corrections easier.

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