An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FLUORIDATE
fluoridate, fluoridize, fluoridise
(verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride; “fluoridized water”; “fluoridize the teeth of children”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
fluoridate (third-person singular simple present fluoridates, present participle fluoridating, simple past and past participle fluoridated)
(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.
Source: Wiktionary
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