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These risks often lead many to avoid using campus bathrooms altogether. Numerous health problems can develop when people avoid using bathrooms. These health risks include developing urinary tract infections, over-stretching the bladder muscles and even kidney failure. People may also avoid eating and drinking regularly to avoid using bathrooms, resulting in dehydration and poor nutrition habits. Studies have shown that rates of these health problems among trans people are much higher than average...
...anti--Jim and Tammy Faye. "I want to live above reproach," says the man whose role model is Billy Graham, explaining why he avoids being alone with women other than his wife. The Warrens, who have three grown children, live comfortably but relatively modestly in a $360,000 tract home they bought two years ago, and the reverend drives a Ford SUV. In 2003, with royalties from the Purpose-Driven product line pouring in, Warren stopped taking his $110,000 annual salary from Saddleback and refunded all the money the church had paid him over the years. He says...
...Thanks so much for your report. Only four years ago, after I returned from Africa and a stint in the Peace Corps, I had trouble convincing physicians that my ongoing digestive-tract problems (later diagnosed as irritable-bowel syndrome) seemed to be linked to periodic hives and aching muscles and joints. The docs were stumped. Now I realize that ailments like mine afflict many people. Your article helped clarify the mechanisms by which these reactions occur in the body. This understanding, along with new discoveries about the links between inflammation and psychological ailments such as depression and stress, may lead...
...course the granddaddy of all anti-inflammatories is aspirin, and millions of Americans already take it to prevent heart attacks. But evidence is growing that it may also fight colon cancer and even Alzheimer's by reducing inflammation in the digestive tract and the brain...
...serves as a built-in sperm bank. Similarly, the male anglerfish burrows into the belly of its much bigger mate and becomes a permanent, parasitic testicle. The female green spoon worm inhales the tiny male, who then resides in the androecium ("little man house"), a nook in the reproductive tract from which he fertilizes eggs...