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Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).