Pots, Females and Food

Food preferences of males and females.

Food preferences may be dominated by internal controls (i.e. true sex differences) or by external factors such as fashion, social tradition, custom and taboos that relate to one sex rather than the other. True sex differences should therefore be relatively constant in different communities while external factors may differ at different times and in different communities. For example ‘slimming’ ...

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

INTRODUCTION POTS is defined as the development of orthostatic symptoms associated with a heart rate (HR) increment >or=30, usually to >or=120 bpm without orthostatic hypotension. Symptoms of orthostatic intolerance are those due to brain hypoperfusion and those due to sympathetic overaction. METHODS We provide a review of POTS based primarily on work from the Mayo Clinic. RESULTS Females p...

Iron nutritional status is improved in Brazilian preterm infants fed food cooked in iron pots.

To determine the efficacy of cooking food in iron pots to prevent anemia in premature infants, a longitudinal study on iron nutritional status was conducted in preterm, healthy infants from families of low socioeconomic level between mo 4 and 12 of life. The infants were divided randomly into two groups. The study group consisted of 22 infants whose food was cooked in iron pots; the control gro...

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.144501 2013;127:2336-2342 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/127/23/2336 World Wide Web at: The ...

Pots :a Oo Lotos Approach