More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
Bill Viola. Room for St. John of the Cross. 1983.
Ettore Sottsass, "Carlton" Room Divider.
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