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Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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.
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.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.