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The word 'tundra' comes from the Russian language and it means a treeless, marshy area. The tundra is located in the Arctic Circle.


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Researchers are discovering that honey has potent antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties that are getting alot of scientists pretty excited. The most promising of the "honey-research" has come in the area of treating wounds. Honey helps promote the healing of burns and surgical cuts. How does the honey heal? A thin layer of honey provides a moist environment that protects the skin and prevents a hard scab from forming. Honey also stimulates the growth and formation of new blood capillaries and triggers the cells that produce new skin to grow. So far it has proven to be an essential treatment to a boy in Britain who had his leg amputated, and to a woman who had an infected belly from a surgery.
MAY 29, 2001
The Globe and Mail - Health & Wellbeing
MAY 29, 2001

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