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Grapes is such a fruit, which is almost loved by everybody, due to its unique taste. But, along with that, what health benefits grapes have? What is right amount to eat them? What harms or sideeffects they cause, if you eat them in excess amount? Let’s discuss all of that in today’s article. Image Source - uploaded by author  Grapes, if eaten in right amount and right way, then it has lot of health benefits. But, if grapes are eaten in excess amount and wrong way, then it causes harms (sideeffects) too. First, we will discuss, what health benefits it has? Here comes, those health benefits- Health benefits of grapes – Grapes contain a lot of health nutrients. Based on that, they have following health benefits – Prevent anaemia  – Grapes contain iron in good amount along with folic acid combination, which helps in preventing iron deficiency anameia. Prevents constipation – through fiber present in it. Fiber present in grapes plays a role of roughage, which helps in easy p...

Influenza is a kind of flu like illness. It mostly affects respiratory tract. It is a kind of contagious respiratory disease, caused by influenza virus, which infects nose, throat and lungs of a person. Image Source - uploaded by author  How influenza spreads? It spreads through droplets, from cough or sneeze of influenza infected patient. When you touch those surfaces, where these droplets of influenza infected patient are present, and then touch your mouth, nose and eyes, you also get infected.  When do influenza infected person, most infectious?   That means, at what stage of influenza, patient’s droplet are most infectious ? Patient is most infectious (contagious) during the first 3 days of illness.  If a patient is presently not showing symptoms of influenza , but infected with influenza virus, still that patient can infect another healthy person. That means,  influenza virus infected asymptomatic patient, can infect another healthy person.  It is...