abstract prostate cancer is one of the life threatening disorders of male. although, over the last two decades, a high rate of overdiagnosis, and overtreatment has lowered the incidence rate of prostate cancer, the treatment or prevention strategies are not enough to control the high rate of disease related mortality. current medical treatment approaches include surgery, radiation therapy, chem...

Objective: The treatment of obesity besides weight loss will have numerous psychological effects. The obese patients have different body image, poor hope and quality of life that influence the process of their treatment. The aim of this study was to compare body image, quality of life and hope in obese women with diet therapy and obese women who are not under diet therapy. Materials and Method...

Obese women have negative physical self-concept and attitude about self .Schema therapy as a new approach in psychological intervention is effective in reduction of negative beliefs, self-concept and worry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of group schema therapy on physical self-concept and worry about weight and diet in women with obesity. This study was a quasi-experim...

background: weight regain after weight loss is a common problem for all those obese or overweight who have had a recent weight loss. different cures such as diet therapy, behavioral therapy, exercise or a mixture of them have been advised as solutions. the purpose of this review is to find the best diet or eating pattern to maintain a recent weight loss. materials and methods: we searched in pu...

objective to determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children. materials & methods sixty six consecutive children (1-16 years old) with intractable epilepsy whose seizure were not neurodegenerative nor febrile in origin were recruited. they received the ketogenic diet and we evaluated its effect on seizure frequency for 3 months. all these children had m...

â  b ackground non-alcoholic fatty liver (nafl) includes a spectrum of diseases ranging from simple hepatic steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) and cirrhosis. nafl is typically seen in association with obesity, diabetes and hypertriglyceridaemia. in order to seek the role of diet therapy in treatment of nafl, we compared the ultrasonographic findings of patients with fatty liver di...

irritable bowel syndrome is the most common functional gastrointestinal disease and is among the most common reasons for outpatients doctor visit both in primary and specialty clinics. except for some changes in functional brain imaging and some mild gi mucosal inflammation there is no gross structural changes or pathological finding. patients suffer from lifelong chronic abdominal pain, diarrh...

background: this study was done to assess the use of traditional/complementary and alternative medicine (tm/cam) during pregnancy and the reasons behind it from the mother’s perspective. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 919 pregnant mothers attending at prenatal care units of governmental health centers recruited through a multistage sampling and completed a self-report questi...