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People in the US are working longer hours and now both partners usually work full time, which means that people eat in restaurants more often than they used to. Besides making us fatter, this is also making us deaf.

Hearing specialist Robert Novak says that some restaurants are so noisy that customers’ and employees’ hearing can be affected over time. Note that this is a SCIENTIFIC assessment by Novak, not just his personal preference for quiet eating places.
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Newswise – For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, the voices ofactors, teachers, sports announcers and clergy are silenced.But now researchers have developed a captioning system thatyou can take with you, for the 28 million Americans (about10% of the population) who are deaf or hard of hearing. Theonly thing you’ll need to do is bring your PDA or laptopcomputer to the theater or stadium.
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Sign language may be the cause of the rising rate of inherited deafness, which has doubled over the past 200 years. The introduction of sign language in the early 1800s allowed deaf people to communicate with other deaf people, leading to marriage and deaf offspring. Researcher Walter Nance says, “In the United States, at least 85% of individuals with profound deafness marry another deaf person.”
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Three out of four young people who go to clubs or concerts regularly experience signs of hearing damage afterwards, such as ringing in their ears, and risk having permanent deafness by middle age. The future generation may think of hearing aids as ordinary as glasses are now, and hearing aid batteries may be sold at the check out counter, the way cigarettes are today.

66% of young people ages 18 to 30 go to clubs at least once a month, and 73% of people who’ve never been to a club, concert or festival, have ringing in their ears. While 46% say they know that ringing in the ears is a sign of damage, 59% didn’t realize that the hearing damage is permanent.
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