A pinch and a dash of salt can quickly add up to unhealthy levels of sodium, especially when many foods already contain more than enough sodium. About 11 percent of the sodium in the average U.S. diet comes from adding salt or other sodium-containing condiments to foods while cooking or eating.

There's a reason so many doctors and nutritionists recommend keeping a food diary when you're trying to lose weight: It actually appears to work. The case for food diaries (or food records or journals) got a little stronger today, when weight-loss researchers reported that a large, multicenter study suggests that tracking what goes in your mouth can double the amount of weight lost.

It is usual for patients to receive a number of drugs at the same time. There are reports of getting 36 different drugs in one admission at John Hopkins Hospital in the United States. A researcher described this as a carrier bag syndrome.

Never before have had so many people lived for so long. Life expectancy has nearly doubled over the last century. The aging of the population — in past decades and in the foreseeable future -presents both a challenge and an opportunity for all of us as we seek to stay healthy throughout our longer lives.

About 9.72 percent of Chinese citizens between the ages of 13 and 30 suffer Internet addiction, a survey revealed recently (2008-01-18). The survey defines an Internet-addicted as one whose life, career and interpersonal relations are harmed by Internet use, said the report issued by the China Youth Association for Network Development (CYAND).

Diarrhea is usually defined as the passage of three or more loose or watery stool in a 24-hour period, or stool frequency or liquidity that is considered abnormal by the mother. Exclusive breast-fed infants, normally pass several soft, semi-liquid stools each day. A loose stool being one that would take the shape of a container.

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