Anxiety - Human emotion or Mental disorder

The word anxiety comes from the Latin word anxietas, which means to choke or upset. The symptoms therefore include emotional or behavioral symptoms as well as ways of thinking that are responses to feeling as if one is in danger. Anxiety happens as a normal part of life. It is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. 

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Phobia - A type of anxiety disorder

A phobia is an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger. Unlike the brief anxiety most people feel when they give a speech or take a test, a phobia is long-lasting, causes intense physical and psychological reactions, and can affect your ability to function normally at work or in social settings.

Several types of phobias exist. Some people fear large, open spaces. Others are unable to tolerate certain social situations. And still others have a specific phobia, such as a fear of snakes, elevators or flying. The following are a list of common phobias which exist :-

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Spice up your life - Cut back Salt / Sodium

Salt is a chemical compound called sodium chloride, with the formula NaCL (Na = sodium, CL = chlorine). Sodium chloride consists of 40% sodium and 60% chlorine. Salt is of low toxicity and is non-flammable. Seen under a microscope, table salt is made up of many cube-shaped crystals. 

Salt exists naturally in seawater. When an area of seawater becomes enclosed it evaporates under the sun, a deposit is left. Over millions of years other sediments have been deposited over the salt, leaving beds of halite (rock salt) below the surface. 

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