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| All that glitters is not healthy |
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 A slit where the hole should be or moist scaly skin in an otherwise unblemished face. Beautiful faces but marred ear lobes.
Heavy jewellery, everyone assumes.
Wrong, says Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Lalantha Amarasinghe, dispelling a popular myth believed by most people. Slit ear lobes have nothing to do with the weight of the jewellery, stresses Dr. Amarasinghe, explaining that a shocking 18% of women all over the world including Sri Lanka but excluding Nepal are victims of this |
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| Which oil for
cooking? |
 Different oils fill different needs- for health, taste and cooking. For good health, our bodies need a variety of healthy fats that are found naturally in different oils. Fat obtained from animals, vegetable seeds and nuts all are formed of fatty acids. Each fatty acid has a chain of carbon atoms. |
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| Childhood
illnesses |
 Most of us have gone through the common childhood illnesses of chicken pox, measles and rubella without too much difficulty. Yet when a child gets a fever with the characteristic rash, we are anxious. The usual practice is not to intervene in the hope that it will get better in due course. This does happen most of the time for common illnesses like measles, rubella and chickenpox. Yet, there are exceptions, with the above diseases causing complications and also other illnesses like "Kawasaki" needing treatment, monitoring and proper follow up. |
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| Time for a
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 When Mr. Perera, a 52-year-old bank executive, developed a tightening pain just under the breastbone in the central area of the chest, while walking uphill, he did not worry too much. He stopped to rest and the pain disappeared in a few minutes. Later on even gardening or walking a short distance would trigger this pain, though it would ease after he rested for a while. |
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