The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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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.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
