Some people have allergies or sensitivities to foods which are not problematic to most people. This occurs when a person's immune system mistakes a certain food protein for a harmful foreign agent and attacks it. About 2% of adults and 8% of children have a food allergy.n fact, the majority of food consumed by human beings are seed-based foods. Edible seeds include cereals (corn, wheat, rice, et cetera), legumes (beans, peas, lentils, et cetera), and nuts. Oilseeds are often pressed to produce rich oils-sunflower, flaxseed, rapeseed (including canola oil), sesame, et cetera.
1 Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol, 2 this represent 5.9 % of all deaths. 2  The harmful use of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions.
Table 3 shows the number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates from alcohol poisoning for men and women from 1996 through 1998. Based on underlying cause alone, the annual average number of deaths from alcohol poisoning was 317, with an age-adjusted death rate of 0.11 per 100,000 population.