Posted in Fitness on Jan 25, 2010
In this day and age when everyone has this notion that being “beautiful” should always go hand-in-hand with being “slim and trim”; many women have resorted to several drastic measures in solving their weight problems. Whether it’s Dr. Atkins, South Beach Diet, Taebo, or pills, these methods compose all the long list of what are called “fad diets” that has …
Posted in Diseases on Jan 25, 2010
When a person is constantly disturbed by certain past stressful events of his or her life, it is about time that this person should consult a psychiatrist because he or she might be experiencing a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. As defined by Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine (2006), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a “psychiatric disorder characterized by an acute emotional response …
Posted in Nutrition on Jan 04, 2010
The difficulties of constructing food composition tables and nutrient databases lie mainly on the fact that choosing foods would commensurate on various criteria. The quality of food composition data is greatly influenced by the control of variation in food composition, the accuracy in the description of nutrients, the methods of analysis and the mode of data expression (Leclercq et al., …
