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PROTECT YOUR HEARING!

                                     More than 120 million people in the world have a disabling hearing impairment –World Health Organization. Our ability to hear is a gift to be treasured. As we age, though, our hearing progressively diminishes. Modern society, with the many and varied sounds and noises it generates, seems to have accelerated this process. A senior scientist at the Central Institute for the Deaf, in st. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., noted: “About 75 percent of hearing loss in the typical American is caused not by the aging process alone but by what you’ve done to your ears throughout your lifetime.” Intense, brief exposure to loud sounds can be harmful to the sensitive structures in the inner ear. More often, though, hearing loss is a result of “the cumulative effect of noisy jobs, noisy hobbies, noisy recreational activities,” said hearing specialist Dr. Margaret Cheesman. What can you do to protect your hearing? To find the answer, it is helpful to kno