F or primates, humans have pretty peculiar diets. Most often, our food intake includes large amounts of starchy plant food, together, particularly in developed countries, with considerable quantities of vertebrate muscle and other soft tissues. No other large primate eats like this. Instead, our near relatives tend to obtain most of their calories from the simple sugars in fruits and most of th...

We review in the present article the conjecture of electromagnetic mass by Lorentz. The philosophical perspectives and historical accounts of this idea are described, especially, in the light of Einstein's special relativistic formula E = mc 2. It has shown that the Lorentz's electromagnetic mass model has taken various shapes through its journey and the goal is not yet reached.

The cardiovascular complications associated with diabetes and the closely related metabolic syndrome are of increasing clinical importance throughout the world and especially in the Western hemisphere.1 Although insulin resistance and hyperglycemia are thought to play a pathogenic role during the progression of atherosclerosis, the precise mechanisms involved are not completely clear.2 One fact...