People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.
The experiment performed by Jacob, Monod, and Pardee to study a lacI constitutive mutant
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