Food synergy is the concept that the non-random mixture of food constituents operates in concert for the life of the organism eaten and presumably for the life of the eater. Isolated nutrients have been extensively studied in well-designed, long-term, large randomised clinical trials, typically with null and sometimes with harmful effects. Therefore, although nutrient deficiency is a known phen...

SIDE EFFECTS: Nervousness, fine tremor of the skeletal muscle (particularly hands), peripheral vasodilatation, pa radox i ca l b ronchospasm, hypoka laem ia , hyperglycaemia, Cardiac Arrhythmias (including Supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrilliation, Extrasystoles). Salbutamol, like other sympathomimetic agents, can cause adverse effects such as drowsiness, flushing, restlessness, irrita...

ion at the b-C. Relative yields are changed as much as a factor of 7.0 at 200 K, a factor of 5.0 at 298 K, and a factor of 3.7 in the other direction at 2400 K. The strong dependence of the product ratios on the multi-structural anharmonicity factors shows that such factors play an important role in controlling branching ratios in reaction mechanism networks.

Childhood obesity is an issue of public health concern globally. This review reports on levels of overweight and obesity in Irish children and examines some aspects of their diet and lifestyle proposed to promote or protect against increasing body fatness in children. While there is still some debate with regard to the most appropriate cut-off points to use when assessing body fatness in childr...

C harles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 (the same day as President Abraham Lincoln). In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1), his most important book and the one by which he has become best known to posterity. Thus, 2009 is a double anniversary: the 200th of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of Origin. Darwin is deservedly credited a...

Family Planning Perspectives studies of pregnant teenagers have reported a sexual abuse prevalence of 15–26%,2 rates no higher than those most commonly reported for the general population of women.3 Whereas data on a small group of college women suggested that those who had been sexually abused were at no higher risk for early pregnancy than their peers who had not been abused,4 findings from a...