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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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 B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).