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Health and medicine questions are off-topic unless dealing with the biology underlying health and medicine. Please carefully explore the tour, help centre, and meta before posting health and medicine questions. Health is a physiological state of well-being referring to the (ab)normality of the cellular or organismal physiology.

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How does residual chlorine in tap water work?

Given that chlorine has a very slight disadvantage to health (albeit a tiny one), if 0.5mg/l is not enough to kill harmful bacteria, why is it there at all? …
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To what extent are lifestyle factors taken into account in medical testing? [closed]

A glance at any official health bodies advice will show that we are entreated to eat more healthily, take more exercise and reduce stress. … of different general health, yet (in the studies I've read) there seems to be simply a presumption that the control group and the test group will have a similar spread of lifestyles. …
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