Comment. The majority of primary health care providers agree that their patients should reduce sodium intake; report providing specific advice in line with recommended strategies; and counsel patients with prehypertension, hypertension, or chronic kidney disease to consume less salt. In contrast to 2010 dietary guidelines, a minority of health care providers report counseling patients with diab...

BACKGROUND Low levels of physical activity are common in developed countries. Therefore, regular exercise counselling in family practice is potentially important. AIMS To assess the physical activity of consecutive patients in family practice settings and to find out whether patients seek advice from their family doctors (FDs) regarding physical activity. METHODS The study group was made u...

Introduction: Among the United Arab Emirates (UAE) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. This is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. This concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travellin...

Abstract This article deals with the Gifts of Holy Spirit, infused prudence, and natural law. Prudence has an intimate connection both law Gift Counsel, is thus pivotal to argument made. In brief, it argued that Counsel perfects reason’s grasp demands Gift, which proportions believer instinctus guides him in all pertains attainment ultimate beatitude. It does so, moreover, by actually enhancing...

CONTEXT The increase in sedentary lifestyle may contribute to the rise in obesity nationally. Although guidelines suggest that physicians counsel all patients about exercise, physicians counsel only a minority of their patients. Whether patient factors influence physician counseling is not well established. OBJECTIVES To examine and to identify factors associated with exercise counseling by U...

Two mobile agents (robots), starting from different nodes of an n-node network at possibly different times, have to meet at the same node. This problem is known as rendezvous. Agents move in synchronous rounds using a deterministic algorithm. In each round, an agent decides to either remain idle or to move to one of the adjacent nodes. Each agent has a distinct integer label from the set {1, . ...

BACKGROUND/AIM According to the number of active smokers, Serbia occupies a high position in Europe, as well as worldwide. More than 47% of adults are smokers according to WHO data, and 33.6% according to the National Health Survey Serbia in 2006. Smoking physicians are setting a bad example to patients, they are uncritical to this habit, rarely ask patients whether they smoke and rarely advise...

Cystic Fibrosis Diabetes (CFRD) is the most common complication affecting approx. 40–50% of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). Physical activity (PA) and exercise are recommended for management CF can also benefit blood glucose levels (BGL). Physiotherapists (PT) routinely counsel patients CFRD about taking regular PA supervise sessions. To assess PT knowledge understanding BGL whilst supervisin...