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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.