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Your Friend, the Fat Cell
A healthy, adult human body contains about 35 billion fat cells. Each contains about 0.5 micrograms of fat. Stored fat…
It's Hay Fever Season!
If spring's flying pollen is making you sneeze, you are not alone. Some 40 to 50 million people in the United States…
Who was Typhoid Mary?
Mary Mallon lived in New York about 100 years ago, and worked as a cook. It seemed that every family she worked for…
SARS: Mother Nature Strikes Again!
SARS, short for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is big news this spring. By the middle of April 2003, over 2000…
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