The Healthy Temple

What is asthma?

Asthma affects a person’s bronchial (pronounced: brahn-kee-ul) tubes, also known as airways. When a person breathes normally, air is taken in through the nose or mouth and then goes into the trachea (windpipe), passing through the bronchial tubes, into the lungs, and finally back out again. But people with asthma have airways that are inflamed. [...]

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Some methods of contraception

There are so many different types of contraception available that you should be able to find the right method. You may have to try several different things before you hit on the one you like most. We have reached the stage where unplanned pregnancies should be rare, because there are so many good methods of [...]

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The Nutmeg

The Arabs were the exclusive importers of the spice to Europe up until 1512, when Vasco de Gama reached the Moloccas and claimed the islands for Portugal. To preserve their new monopoly, the Portuguese (and from 1602, the Dutch) restricted the trees to the islands of Banda and Amboina. The Dutch were especially cautious, since [...]

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