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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.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.