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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Certain rare plants containing cyanide include apricot pits and a type of potato called cassava. Fortunately, only chronic or massive ingestion of any of these plants can lead to serious poisoning.