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Benefits of Drinking Water in the Morning

Drinking water is beneficial to your health, but the health benefits of drinking water first thing every morning are far-reaching. To understand why drinking water in the morning is important, let’s consider a simple analogy. The human body can be likened to …

Why Do Beans Give You Gas?

Why does one get gas from beans? Beans contain a category of complex sugars called Oligosaccharides. These sugars have a high molecular weight and hence cannot be absorbed by the villi. Thus, they pass undigested through the intestinal tract. Once they reach …

10 Facts About The Heart

No organ in your body works as hard as your heart – physically speaking, that is. When you think about the fact that your heart is beating at least once per second, and in most cases, a bit more than that, for …