Why is California called the Golden State?

California is called the Golden State not because of the gold found at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, but because winter rains make the hills green until the dry air of summer turns them a golden hue.

Britain is in the grip of an epidemic of liver disease, which is hitting harder and earlier than ever before. While death rates among the rest of the big killers, such as cancer and heart disease, are flat or falling, liver disease has bucked the trend and kills three times as many people as it did. Most of those affected die surprisingly young. Over the past decade there has been a fivefold increase in the number developing life-threatening liver damage in their thirties, forties and fifties.