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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.