Many people purchase their candy bars at the health food store, and choose carob rather than chocolate. While cocoa butter contains about 60 percent saturated fat, hydrogenated palm kernel oil contains about 85 percent saturated fat. The daily intake of 2.6 gm of omega-3 fatty acids may improve arthritis symptoms sufficiently to reduce the requirement for arthritis medications. Women who successfully deliver vaginally have shorter hospital stays, require fewer postpartum transfusions, and suffer fewer postpartum fevers than women who undergo repeat cesarean section. Those watches in plastic cases may be exposing the wearer to radioactivity.
Plastic cases allow the radioactivity to pass through the case and enter the skin.
A few studies have revealed an association between high iron levels in the body and cancer. Researchers from the AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver now report that laboratory animals given iron and exposed to a cancer-causing agent developed higher rates of breast cancer than did similar animals not given the iron supplement.