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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.
Approximately one in four people diagnosed with diabetes will develop foot problems. Of these, about one-third will require lower extremity amputation.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.