Potassium is one mineral that plays an important role in controlling the amount of fluid in the body. Another is sodium. Too much sodium -- which the body mainly gets from salt -- leads to the body retaining fluid.
Depending on which account you believe, the real McCoy was a boxer, an inventor, a rumrunner or a Scottish clan leader. Here are just a few of the phrase's possible origins: In the late 1800s, American welterweight champion Norman Selby boxed under the name Kid McCoy.. Two stories about Selby give a possible explanation for the phrase. In the first story, Selby was challenged by a drunk in a bar, who questioned whether he was really the legendary fighter he claimed to be.
The Carib Indians were warlike, and gained the name Carib from the Spanish word for cannibal. The Caribs came to the islands of the Caribbean in much the same way that the TaÃ­nos did: from South America via canoe. They became well-known and feared throughout the region, and made occasional attacks against Jamaica.