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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 first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.