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10 Dangerous Health Fads And Medical Treatments Used In The Past

WEB10 Dangerous Health Fads And Medical Treatments Used In The Past. by Jonathan H. Kantor. fact checked by Jamie Frater. 41. 52. Health fads are nothing new, …

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10 Most Persistent Health Myths and Why They’re False

WEB4 The Myth: “Eggs Raise Your Cholesterol and Are Bad for Your Heart”. The myth that eggs are little cholesterol grenades ready to explode your heart health has …

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Top 10 Baffling Phenomena That Medicine Can’t Fully Explain

WEB6 Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. First described in 2004 by J.H. Allen and colleagues, this odd disorder presents with intractable nausea, vomiting, and GI …

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10 Strange And Obscure Facts About Mental Health

WEB6 Korsakoff’s Syndrome. Mental illnesses often arise from unexpected places. From a medical standpoint, one of the more interesting mental illnesses is known as …

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Top 10 Health Disorders Made Up To Sell Products

WEB6 ‘Detoxing’ Your Body Is Not A Real Thing—It Is Pushed By People Trying To Sell Useless Products. In health aisles and on health blogs, you will often see detox …

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10 Medical Miracles Doctors Still Can't Explain

WEB9 The Toxic Woman. The Bizarre Toxic Death Of Gloria Ramirez. One incident heavy on the mysterious side of miraculous but light on the fortunate side is the …

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Top 10 Culture-Specific Illnesses And Mental Disorders

WEB8 Running Amok. In English, the phrase “ (to) run amok” refers to the act of behaving in a wild and unruly manner. Or rather, it means “to go crazy.”. The phrase is …

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10 Strange Medical Conditions You've Never Heard Of

WEBThis is an autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles on the head, resulting in patchy hair loss. Alopecia areata (AA) has …

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10 Surprising Discoveries About Ancient Health Care

WEB234. We often assume that those who lived before us were inferior in intelligence and accomplishments, especially when we think of ancient medicine. But …

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10 Obsolete Mental Disorders

WEB10 Male Hysteria. Photo credit: Wikimedia. Hysteria has a slew of nervous symptoms that cannot be attributed to a physical cause. Despite men being just as …

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Top 10 Strange Medical Conditions That Really Exist

WEBTop 10 Strange Medical Conditions That Really Exist. A host of medical hiccups can hit the human body. Microscopic bugs, injuries, and failing systems are the …

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10 Ridiculous Health Myths (Science Says Are Actually True)

WEBAccording to science, it’s not because women are more unprepared for the cold than men; their threshold for cold is just different. In a Dutch study, researchers …

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10 Ancient Egyptian Medical Practices We Still Use Today

WEBThe Ebers Papyrus, a medical manual from ancient Egypt, mentions the diagnosis of a hernia, stating it is a “swelling appearing on coughing.”. There are even …

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10 Ways Naturism Is a Healthy Lifestyle

WEB10 Ways Naturism Is a Healthy Lifestyle. It seems naturism, or naked recreation, was much more appreciated at an earlier time in American history than it is …

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Top 10 Common Health Practices That Are Actually Hurting Us

WEB4 Eating Fish. The health food craze has taken hold, and many people eat things just because they are told that certain foods are healthy. The switch from red …

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10 Insane Medical Beliefs From The Past

WEB10 The Tapeworm Diet. A little over 100 years ago, society started giving women the idea that they need to be super thin, but it wasn’t easy for all women to drop …

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10 Weird Medieval Medical Practices That Actually Work

WEBThe effective healing of street cleaning came about largely by accident, and its beneficial effects were unintended. Until the Black Death plague of 1348, many …

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10 Terrible Diseases That Ravaged Historical Royalty

WEB2 Queen Mary I. Photo via Wikipedia. Queen Mary I was a daughter that would’ve done her bloodthirsty father, King Henry VIII, proud. Her tendency to burn …

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