The senior population grows every year. Seniors older than 65 years of age now comprise more than 13% of the total population. However, women outlive men. In the 85-and-over age group, there are only 45 men to every 100 women.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
