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.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word derives from bilayati, a regional variant of the Urdu word vilayati, meaning foreign, British, English or European.. In India, vilayati came to be known as an adjective meaning European, and specifically English or British.he term was particularly used by World War I poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. During that war, a  Blighty wound  â a wound serious enough to require recuperation away from the trenches, but not serious enough to kill or maim the victimâwas hoped for by many, and sometimes self-inflicted.