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Article: Watch out for carbon monoxide: It's time to check furnaces, gas fireplaces and stove.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 30, 2000
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Call it the Mom Hypothesis.
Tom McEwen thinks there's something vaguely sinister about the idea that the stereotyped family holiday usually features a hard-working mother laboring over a massive holiday feast all day _ then being too "tired" to eat herself. Tired, smired, McEwen says.
"I'll bet that the real reason that usually happens is that she's been breathing in carbon monoxide all day, and that's what ruined her appetite," said the service manager of Falls Heating and Cooling in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
This is the time of year when most experts remind homeowners to arrange to have their furnaces checked for safety, and to make sure they ...