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A cold-stimulus headache, colloquially known as an ice-cream headache or brain freeze, is a form of brief pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream, popsicles, and snow cones.
Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagō, to eat [1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [3]
Continuous cold therapy devices (also called ice machines) which circulate ice water through a pad are currently the subject of class action lawsuits for skin and tissue damage caused by excessive cooling or icing time and lack of temperature control. Reported injuries range from frostbite to severe tissue damage resulting in amputation.
With these two factors in mind, she says that eating a primarily nutrient-rich diet and a small serving of ice cream (about half a cup) each night likely won’t negatively impact the body too much.
"These are kids and adults who just aren't motivated by food," she said. "They're the ones who may be playing outside for hours and hours and don't think, ‘It's time to eat now.’"
The lawsuit over an alleged frozen ice injury comes just over three months after JetBlue was sued by another passenger, who says they suffered severe burns when “scalding hot” tea was served ...
Last year, the Justice Department noted that teenagers at Rikers were subject to cell extractions that “too frequently lead to physical altercations and unnecessary injuries.” From an inmate at Michigan, I heard a recent report of officers rushing into a young prisoner's cell and stripping him of his clothes, as well as other uses of force.
An issue unique to youth athletics is that the participants’ bones are still growing, [7] placing them at highest risk for injury. Around 8,000 children are rushed to the emergency room daily because of sports injuries. [8] High school athletes suffer approximately 715,000 injuries annually.