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You may even track heart rate, along with other vitals, through an Apple Watch or Fitbit. "Palpitations can mean different things to different people," says Dr. Jay Sengupta, a cardiac ...
Lignophagia is the abnormal behaviour of chewing and eating wood. [1] It has been recorded in several species, but perhaps most commonly in horses where it is usually called, simply, "wood chewing". Lignophagia is a form of the pica disorder , in which normally non-nutritive substances are chewed or eaten.
The bottom line: New research suggests that eating your first meal of the day before 8 a.m. and your last meal before 8 p.m. could be good for your heart health. That said, the nutritional value ...
Tips for eating your Christmas tree. Stick to pine, fir and spruce trees. Cedar, cypress and especially yew trees should be avoided because they can be toxic or inedible.
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
A five-year-old girl in Peru with a desire to eat earth (geophagia). Wood engraving by E. Riou, 1860s. Geophagia is nearly universal around the world in tribal and traditional rural societies (although apparently it has not been documented in Japan or Korea). [16] In the ancient world, several writers noted the phenomenon of geophagia.
Eating fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, nuts, and whole-fat dairy may lower your risk of heart disease, a study finds. Plus, how often to eat each for better heart health.
Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood. The word derives from Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from ξύλον (xulon) "wood" and φαγεῖν (phagein) "to eat". Animals feeding only on dead wood are called sapro-xylophagous ...