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Headphones: When hearing danger is closer than you think

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Headphones: When hearing danger is closer than you think Contributed by  Lisa Packer , staff writer, Healthy Hearing August 13, 2015 It seems like everywhere you look, from the gym to the subway to the street, people are wearing headphones or earbuds connecting them to their own portable listening devices. Have we become a society of "musicophiles?" Not really. More so than ever before, people are using their headphones to listen to music as a means of blocking out the outside world, and that is coming at an unfortunate price. According to the World Health Organization, 50 percent of young adults are exposed to potentially unsafe music levels from their portable devices. And the latest statistics on noise-induced hearing loss  (NIHL) are astounding; according to the CDC, in the U.S. alone 5.2 million people between the ages of 6 and 19 and 26 million adults between the ages of 20 and 69 have NIHL. It is a growing problem; studies suggest the rate of children with hearin...
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ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ABDOMINAL BLOATING

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