Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Approximately one in four people diagnosed with diabetes will develop foot problems. Of these, about one-third will require lower extremity amputation.
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Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
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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.
