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Should I Be Taking Supplements?

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Men who reported taking muscle-building supplements, such as pills and powders with creatine or androstenedione, reported a significantly higher likelihood of having developed testicular cancer than men who did not use such supplements, according to a new study in the British Journal of Cancer.

男子患肌肉的營養補充品如丸和粉末與肌酸或雄烯二酮，報導的開發了睾丸癌的男性相比，並沒有使用這種補充劑，在英國癌症雜誌 》 上的一項新調查的可能性顯著更高。

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In Knoxville, I met a young woman who was working three jobs but still couldn’t make it on her own, and was so consumed with shame about her impoverishment that she didn’t want to show up at a local soup kitchen to supplement the little food she could afford.





A kid after my own heart!

man after my own heart

Fig. a man with similar tastes and preferences to mine. You like creamed chip-beef on toast? There's a man after my own heart.

after one's own heart

Sharing one’s tastes or views: he looked like a man after my own heart

• It was that last detail - the piles of books pushed aside to make room to eat - that sent me in search of all of David's writings; I knew that here was a food writer after my own heart, stomach, and mind.
• Here are people after my own heart, who love the great GKC and who incarnate his odd funky hilarious and sensible spirit better than anybody I know.
• A man after my own heart, he still hand-codes his site for each entry, nesting tables within tables and thumbing his nose at structured data.

on one's own

Unaccompanied by others; alone or unaided:she’s not here now and I have to do things on my ownthese are exercises one can do on one’s own

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supplement

Line breaks: sup|ple¦ment

NOUN

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌplɪm(ə)nt /
1

A thing added to something else in order to complete or enhance it:the handout is a supplement to the official manual

1.1A substance taken to remedy the deficiencies in a person’s diet:multivitamin supplements

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1.2A separate section, especially a colour magazine,added to a newspaper or periodical:our special supplement is packed with ideas forhealthy hair

1.3

A sum of money paid to increase a person’sincome:an earnings-related supplement was paid during the first six months of unemployment

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1.4An additional charge payable for an extra service or facility:the single room supplement is £2 per night

2 Geometry The amount by which an angle is less than 180°.

VERB

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌplɪmɛnt , sʌplɪˈmɛnt /
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Add an extra element or amount to:she took the job to supplement her husband’s income

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin supplementum, fromsupplere 'fill up, complete' (see supply¹).

Derivatives

supplemental

Pronunciation: /-ˈmɛnt(ə)l/

ADJECTIVE

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supplementally

Pronunciation: /-ˈmɛnt(ə)li/

ADVERB

supplementation

Pronunciation: /-ˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

NOUN