Unlike other areas of medicine where statistics are meticulously kept by governments and global organizations, there are no accurate data to describe the number of the world's inhabitants who are overweight, obese, or morbidly obese.
This book presents the latest evidence-based approach in diagnosis and management of the aging of both individuals and society from a gerontology perspective.
This book critically analyzes the reasons for the lack of tangible success in preventing progressing eutrophication and its negative effects as a global environmental problem without a clear solution until now.
This reference provides a comprehensive treatment of the physiological effects of foods and food components capable of promoting good health and preventing or alleviating diseases.
Describing the biochemical function and physiological effects of most of the clinically important vitamins, Vitamin Intake and Health contains provocative insights regarding nutritional requirements beyond the levels currently recommended by the National Academy of Science's RDA (recommended daily allowance).
The book offers a comprehensive overview of deglutition disorders and of dysphagia treatment, presenting a review of the main instruments for evaluating and treating dysphagia.
This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation.
Studies with bacteria and other systems suggest that the omega-3 fatty acid DHA confers great benefits to neurons in maximizing both speed of neural impulses and energy efficiency.
This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation.
The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, socio-cultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history.
Die Migränepatientin erzählt, ihr Neurologe gibt Ratschläge - gemeinsam schreiben sie einen Ratgeber, in dessen Fokus nicht medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Aspekte, sondern die persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Migräne und deren Bewältigung stehen: Die Journalistin Praxedis Kaspar-Schmid berichtet von ihrem Leben, das von schwerer Migräne, aber auch von deren Folgen wie Kopfschmerz bei Medikamentenübergebrauch geprägt war.
Los alimentos de hoy en día, con alto contenido de azúcar y carbohidratos, no sólo nos están haciendo engordar, también nos ponen en riesgo de padecer diabetes, accidentes cerebrovasculares, demencia y cáncer.
