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  • Carpal Tunnel Texting

    Carpal Tunnel Texting

    Most people have heard that texting causes carpal tunnel in your wrists, but is it true? Carpal tunnel syndrome, a gradual progressive agonizing event that occurs in the nerves of the wrists, starts with a burning, tingling, or numbness in the palms of the hands especially, thumb and index finger. Then their ability to grab [...]

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  • Chain reaction: the phenome-yawn

    Chain reaction: the phenome-yawn

    Most people don’t know that humans begin yawning at 11 weeks after conception, or that when one person yawns in a group,  half of the rest will yawn within five minutes: Yawning is an involuntary action that has not been researched much. However, there are quite a lot of theories on why people yawn as well [...]

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  • Modern adolescents going up in smoke

    Modern adolescents going up in smoke

    Consider what we believe regarding the amount of knowledge teenagers have regarding the negative consequences of smoking cigarettes, then why would teens start smoking a substance whose addictive properties make it one of the toughest drugs/substances to quit? Why would teenagers stick something in their mouth that is responsible for killing more people per year [...]

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  • Caffeine: common ingredient and harmful toxin

    Caffeine: common ingredient and harmful toxin

    Caffeine, one of the most popular drugs in the world, is naturally produced in leaves and seeds of many plants, also known as guaranine. Around 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine every single day. Many consumers are unaware of the dangers of caffeine and its effects on the body.  Caffeine is defined as a [...]

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  • Legal Hallucinogen: What teens don’t know about salvia divinorum

    Legal Hallucinogen: What teens don’t know about salvia divinorum

    Recently there has been a lot of talk about a legal drug becoming popular with American teenagers. Its called salvia divinorum. Salvia is a leafy plant found in southern Mexico, as well as Central and South America. In many countries where it grows naturally, salvia has been used in rites of spiritual healing or in [...]

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  • Salmonella and Coli Scare

    Salmonella and Coli Scare

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 76 million cases of food poisoning occur annually in United States. Of those, approximately 300,000 result in hospitalizations, and 5,000 in death. The term “food poisoning” describes illnesses caused by eating unsanitary food or drinking water that is contaminated. Some of these food are raw meat, raw [...]

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