The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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Thyroid conditions cause a higher risk of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Body plan of an arthropod, as represented by a grasshopper