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Don’t stand in the sun for too long!

The heat in our body is generated by the basal metabolic activity and lost by evaporation (through sweating), conduction, convection (through dilatation of blood vessels) and radiation. The center for controlling our body temperatures is in an area called hypothalamus in the brain. Our core temperature is maintained at 37 degree centigrade with a [...]

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Smoking can kill you!

‘Smoking is injurious to health’. You must have heard that phrase innumerable times. You must have also read the same on cigarette packs! But have you really wondered as to why and how smoking can kill you? How the smoke affects the different organs of the body? What is the actual pathology and how one [...]

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