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It is important to read food labels and choose foods with low cholesterol and saturated trans fat. You should limit saturated fat to no higher than 6% of daily calories.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
The human body's pharmacokinetics are quite varied. Our hair holds onto drugs longer than our urine, blood, or saliva. For example, alcohol can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days after it was consumed. The same is true for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").