Medication Nightmare
The bathroom medicine cabinet is one of the worst places to keep medicines. The heat and moisture of the bathroom are just the conditions required to alter medication chemistry, making them weaker and possibly ineffective, and in some cases, toxic. A cool dry area away from sunlight and children is optimal.

It Doesn't Taste Fattening
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

Eat Healthy
Between three and four million cases of cancer worldwide -- 375,000 in the United States alone -- could be prevented annually through dietary change.

Health Irony
Men who donate blood have a 30% reduced risk of heart disease compared to those who do not. The difference is attributed to reduced levels of iron following blood donation.

Fat Figures
About one-half of American adults are at least 25 percent above their recommended weight.

Neurologically Correct?
A support group for people with autism has coined a new term for those who are not autistic- "neurologically typical".

18 Million and Counting
Chemical Abstracts Service added the 18 millionth chemical substance to its database--the world's largest collection of chemical information. The substance, (1S-cis)-2-Phenyl-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, , is an intermediate compound in the preparation of tachykinin receptor antagonists which may be useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, pain or migraine and other ailments.

More Gas Facts
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

A Lemon a Day
Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships.

Barefoot and Pregnant
In the developing world, fertility rates vary in inverse proportion with literacy rates. For example, Afghanistan, with a female literacy rate of only eight percent has a fertility rate of 6.9 per 1,000 population. Thailand, in contrast, has a literacy rate of 88% and a fertility rate of 2.6/1,000.