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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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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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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.