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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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
