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Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
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Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.