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People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.