INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Researchers' opinions are divided on whether metabolic syndrome is a separate clinical entity. Undoubtedly, the components of the syndrome, such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, hypertriglyceridaemia, adversely affect metabolism, bringing with it a number of consequences, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease which signifi...

Rediscovery of the role of the gastrointestinal tract in the control of carbohydrate metabolism and, as we now know, fat and protein metabolism, was made independently in London by two groups of workers (Dupre, 1964a; McIntyre et al., 1964). The major credit undoubtedly belongs to McIntyre and his colleagues (1964, 1965) who, by the simplest of methods, namely comparing the glycaemic and insuli...

Reports from various sources show that up to the present, in spite of air raids, the war has fortunately not produced the wholesale collapse into neurotic breakdowns which some people undoubtedly expected. This is one reason for venturing to think ahead, beyond the exigencies of the moment, and to consider the part that the mental health services may be able to play in the work of reconstructio...

one of the significant discourses of principles of jurisprudence is the study of the ruling for tajarrī according to the dictate of intellect and that the uṣūlīs have been disagreed as to whether tajarrī is unlawful or not. terminologically, tajarrī is practical opposition (insolence) to the master’s command, either obligatory or unlawful according to the perpetrator’s opinion; whereas, their p...