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Watch those triglycerides

Article Abstract:

Doctors have recommended that triglyceride levels be monitored in order to detect heart disease and other metabolic disorders. Triglyceride levels below 250 are considered normal but doctors are recommending that levels above 200 be carefully monitored.

Publisher: Reader's Digest Magazines Ltd.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1992
Triglycerides

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The cholera watch

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The cholera epidemic in Latin America may spread to areas of the US along the Mexican border. The lack of clean drinking water and sewage hookups in communities called colonias has raised fears of a cholera outbreak.

Author: Suro, Roberto
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1992
Demographic aspects, Latin America, Cholera, Epidemics, Mexican-American border region, El Paso, Texas

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Watch what you say

Article Abstract:

Hand gestures employed by Americans to indicate concurrence or affirmation may be interpreted as rude gestures by other cultures. The okay sign is considered rude in France and an insult in Latin America.

Author: Axtell, Roger E.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1997
Analysis, Communications, Culture, Communication and culture, Nonverbal communication

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