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  Obesity is a condition where a person has a high percentage of body fat (if you have between a 30% and 39.9% you are obese; and if it’s around 40% or above, you are severely obese) and this has a negative effect on their health. Some of this effects can be: breathing problems, increase of blood preassure that can produce heart issues... Adulthood obesity Causes of obesity are simple: if you consume more calories that you burn doing physical activity, then you'll gain weight. The risks that obesity has aren’t so simple because it has a lot of genetic factors, socioeconomic factors, metabolic factors and lifestyle choices, and a lot of different things. Some diseases and medications can also cause weight to increase. In men, obesity has tripled and in women, it has more than doubled. The most obese men and women now live in China and in the USA. Tibor Végh: "At the beach" | Creative Commons (Attribution) Childhood obesity Obesity increase affects children...
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Aspirin was one of the first medicines. It’s composed of acetylsalicylic acid.This acid is extracted from willow’s bark and leaves. The world consumes 2500 aspirins per second and 40000 tonnes per year. History:   Mosesofmason,  A bottle of Bayer brand coated aspirin tablets ,  CC BY-SA 3.0 c3000 – 1500 BC: Willow is used as a medicine by ancient civilisations like the Sumerians and Egyptians. The Ebers papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text, refers to willow as an anti-inflammatory or pain reliever for non-specific aches and pains. c400 BC: In Greece, Hippocrates administers willow leaf tea, which contains the natural compound from which aspirin is derived, to women to ease the pain of childbirth. The actual drug that we know was discovered in Germany in 1899, a scientist of Bayer invented it. But this ancient aspirin was a lot of secondary effects. Medical uses: Aspirin is used in the treatment, including fever pain, rheumatic fever, ...
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