Some deaths are suspicious. Now scientists think that a couple of famous musicians from the past may have died from vitamin deficiencies!

The most famous of these is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who lived from 1756 to 1791, and suffered from many infectious illnesses including coughs, fever, sore throats, and other bad cold symptoms from 1762 to 1791, the year of his tragically earth death at 35 years old. Most of these illnesses occurred between mid-October and May. At the latitude of Salzburg and Vienna, where he lived, it is impossible to make your own vitamin D from exposure to sunlight for only about six months of the year.
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Nobody knows how much debris was picked up (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to this show) and kept by the first people to stumble upon the 1947 crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico, but pieces of the craft continue to turn up and New Mexico high school geology teacher found one of them and had it tested. The result? He says it is NOT of Earth origin and speculates it therefore must have been manufactured on another planet.
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The all-time classic Communion audiobook as read by Roddy McDowell. It joins Majestic and the Secret School in our growing collection of Whitley Strieber audiobooks. You can download part one from it from the Special Interviews section or navigate to Whitley’s Room and click on "Audiobook" in the subject cloud to the right, to find all parts of all three audiobooks. All audiobooks are Copyright ( C) Walker & Collier, Inc., and are available for your personal use only. They may not be uploaded to the internet.read more

Snacking, especially drinking sodas, continues to increase among Americans, accounting for more than 25% of calorie intake each day. The amount of secondary eating and drinking–consumption while engaged in another activity–has also increased. And beverages account for 50% of the calories consumed through snacking.
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