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Asthma occurs in one in 11 children and in one in 12 adults. African Americans and Latinos have a higher risk for developing asthma than other groups.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.