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Too much salt raises the blood pressure
Salt in the soup, salt on the breakfast egg, salt in the salad dressing, salt on the chips... Without sodium chloride most dishes taste rather bland. It actually makes sense to eat some salt, because the body is not able to produce the mineral nutrients sodium and chloride on its own. This is despite the fact that they are of vital importance: they .....
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Tuberculosis – The white plague strikes back
In the western industrialised nations it seemed to have long been eliminated. But far from it: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than a billion people will contract tuberculosis bacillus by the year 2020. Tuberculosis is spread worldwide. After Aids and Malaria, it is the third largest infectious disease. The WHO e .....
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Retinal detachment and vitreous body detachment
Flashes or beams of light, smoke, clouds of flies or even spider webs – one in 10,000 people have seen them before. When the retina starts detaching from the eye, the symptoms are classic. An amotio or ablatio retina – retinal detachment – is a fearsome eye injury, as it can even lead to complete blindness in the worst case.
The retina co .....
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Suffering from diarrhoea actually protects you from colon cancer
Scientists at the Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, discovered that the pathogens that cause diarrhoea can impede the development of cancer cells in the colon. .This would also explain why colon cancer is much rarer in developing countries, where diarrhoea is more of a daily occurrence, than in ind .....
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