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• [Health fact 1] Visual hallucinations are usually associated with schizophrenia or drug use, but there is a condition named Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which can cause a healthy person to experience visual hallucinations. It isn’t caused by any mental illness but caused by vision loss. One-third of the people whose eyesight starts deteriorating, experience vivid, cartoonish visual hallucinations. Victims mostly tend to see weird creatures and animals. The reason behind this is that the brain always expects sensory input from the eyes, but when it receives nothing due to vision loss; it creates its own inputs.

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• [Health fact 2] Baseball right fielder Sammy Sosa suffered from an extreme back spasm before a game in 2004 as the result of two violent sneezes. He had to sit the game out and receive an epidural to bring down the inflammation.

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• [Health fact 3] The Villages is the largest gated retirement community in the USA, also has one of the fastest growing STD rates in the country.

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• [Health fact 4] Tesla became a gambling addict, lost all his tuition money, dropped out of school and suffered a nervous breakdown.

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• [Health fact 5] Essential oils are called that because they are the "essence" of a plant, not because they are "essential" to human health. There are a lot of alternative medicine practitioners who deliberately take advantage of the misleading name "essential oils". While some essential oils do indeed have health benefits, most of them don't do anything at all and some of them can actually be harmful.

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• [Health fact 6] In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities. Decades of this misinformation campaign shaped improper nutritional advice and caused the rise of heart disease in America. When WHO wanted to add a limit sugar to no more than 10% of a healthy diet, America threatened to pull out their funding if they didn't raise it to at least 25%.

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• [Health fact 7] Despite a diet of up to 7,000 calories per day and weighing up to 400 lbs, sumo wrestlers typically do not suffer from symptoms of obesity due to their intense workout regimens. Upon retirement, however, they must seriously cut calories or become at risk for cardiovascular disease.

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• [Health fact 8] The word “assassin” derives from “hashish”, referring to Nizari Ismailis, who operated out of Lebanon. They were a medieval sect of fanatical Muslims who only answered to a leader known as the “Old Man of the Mountains.” They had a penchant for covertly murdering many leaders of opposing forces after consuming large quantities of hashish. Hashishin (or “pot addict”) was a derogatory term applied to this sect by their enemies, as marijuana is outlawed under Islam.

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• [Health fact 9] American actor Dana Carvey underwent bypass surgery in 1997 and the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. After suing for medical malpractice, he won and donated his winnings to the charity.

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• [Health fact 10] Most insurance companies will provide discounts or reimbursements for gym memberships to keep you healthy.

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