"... There are children who are shy and distressed in cottage homes that are run on old fashioned discipline lines. . . . Either they cry and cry, or prove aggressive and go home. ... Yet most children tolerate their billets, and I suppose, so far, 50 per cent, would not go back if they could. Say 25 per cent are passably contented. 25 per cent, would go back at once, and of these, say 10 per c...

Cutaneous synthesis and traditional food sources do not fully account for unsupplemented vitamin D status. Non-traditional food sources may be an undiscovered input. In a cohort of 780 non-supplement-taking adults with a mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] of 33 (±14)ng/ml we assessed the relationship between vitamin D status and selected food sources. Serum 25(OH)D concentration was adjus...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to analyze selected individual determinants of dietary choices, important for etiology and prevention of degenerative cardiovascular disorders, in a group of menopausal women diagnosed with arterial hypertension. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included a group of 160 women from the Małopolska region, aged between 45 and 60 years and diagnosed with arteri...