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Serum cholesterol testing in adults is recommended every 1 to 5 years. People with diabetes and a family history of high cholesterol should be tested even more frequently.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.