Literatus: Toxicity of Bisphenol A
WIHT the increasing support that local lawmakers provide on the move against plastic as used in bags, another assault on the move against plastic in its use as bottles and containers for food and food products is up.
Senator Miriam Santiago filed a few months earlier Senate Bill No. 3121...
Literatus: Watch out for mercury
EATING shark meat is not in my list of preferred dishes. But when you go with youth of your age who have no qualms about that, it is a matter of time you’ll get to taste it at least for the first time.
I had my first meal on shark meat decades ago together with friends I grew up with in...
Literatus: Top Omega-3 sources for Cebuanos
LIKE any average Cebuano, I could say that my knowledge of Omega-3 fatty acids reaches only as far as knowing that these renowned food supplements can be found in oil-rich, large fishes, the likes of whales and sharks. That makes me think of Omega-3 with certain surrealism. The sources are so...
Literatus: Untreatable disease on the rise
THIS week’s article is some kind of a heads up for our Breakthroughs readers. Certain diseases lately have been reported to be getting untreatable as the scourge of antibiotic drug resistance hits hospitals abroad.
Literatus: Potassium and things we want
ONE of the recommended nutrients for stroke prevention that need to be increased in diet is potassium. It is an electrolyte that is very important in the human body.
Potassium helps regulate the balance between acid and base chemicals in the body fluids, necessary for the building of...
Literatus: The air-breathing troublemaker
THE bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) normally resides in soil, water, skin flora, and man-made environments. It can be found regularly on the surfaces of plants, and occasionally, of animals. It is one of the most vigorous, fast-swimming bacteria seen in hay infusions and pond water samples...
Literatus: Boost your energy at work
IT IS rare for an office worker not to find himself or herself fighting the call to sleep while in the middle of a heap of paperwork. This usually occurs in the early afternoon when the morning meal has been exhausted, and the body still has to digest its lunch.
In fact, too much lunch...
Literatus: Filling the gap on MSG
SOME three months or so after the Breakthroughs article, Tasty Dish and the Risk You Know, came out in the last day of August last year, Dr. Josefa S. Eusebio, president of the Glutamate Association of the Philippines (GAP), wrote me to share what she knows about monosodium glutamate (MSG).
Literatus: Preventing heart attack
LAST Jan. 5, a regular reader of Breakthroughs through Sun-Star Network Exchange sent me an email:
Dear Sirs,
Having read your column, I'm interested in knowing more as I have a history of heart disease. And also how can I prevent heart attack?
Awaiting your reply, Peter...
Literatus: The waist-hip ratio
IN ADDITION to the body mass index (BMI), the waist-hip ratio (WHR) is a reliable alternative in predicting risk to heart diseases. For the same purpose, it is a measure of obesity, an indicator of other more serious health conditions such as heart diseases, diabetes, and hypertension.
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Literatus: In the middle of the night
SPANISH author Leon de Rotrou wrote in his work Vencelas: “What I take from my nights, I add to my days.”
But what happens when night takes from your days, and adds it to your nights?
Literatus: The power of three
THE case I am bringing up today may be considered a sort of “X-File” in the field of medical therapeutics.
Six researchers, led by Javaad Zargooshi, from the Rhazes Center for Research in Family Health and Sexual Medicine of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (Kermanshah, Iran)...
Literatus: Honey for your honey
FEBRUARY, let’s accept it, is the month of Love. Thanks to the ever-enduring popular and commercial success of Saint Valentine’s Day on the 14th. But there is something sweeter in honey than just the kiss.
Honey is considered as the sweetest natural substance to-date. It developed from...
Literatus: Deadly nature and leptospirosis
THE devastation that Tropical Storm Sendong left behind brought an outbreak of Leptospirosis in the affected cities in Mindanao.
Not satisfied with the enormous loss of lives and properties to the victims, nature inflicted upon them a disease that makes their already-difficult situation...
Literatus: The body that binds
IF YOU you think sweets sabotaged your, already-heavy weight, think again. A German study found out that it is not the reason. Instead, it is stress; the more acute the stress, the faster it piles up those unwanted bulges in the last places you want them.
Achim Peters, Britta Kubera,...
Literatus: Vitamin D drops in narcolepsy
A RESEARCH report published last year, uncovered a drop of vitamin D level in patients with narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC).
Literatus: Where hotheads prevail
IT IS easy to believe that health issues are off-limits in the “unemotional world of finance.” But if you had been into the stock market, it will not take long to see that people connected to it—brokers, market makers, dealers, and investors—are nothing but.
Literatus: Heart attacks can now be predicted
THE recent wave of science and technology developments in medicine, particularly in Japan, gave rise to a better way of predicting deadly turns in coronary artery disease (CAD).
Literatus: O Christmas tree, O christmas tree
CHRISTMAS trees fascinate me a lot when fully decorated at Yuletide Season. Their living height forces us to look up and marvel at those twinkling lights of various colors—red, white, yellow, green, and even blue.
In fact, I have no interest in knowing when this American tradition started...
Literatus: Christmastime, mistletoe and wine
Christmastime
Although festive, Christmastime is best celebrated—unlike most festivities such as Pit Señor (although it is a feast of the Child Jesus) because of the mardigras dancing associated with Sinulog—that is, not so much with lots of dancing, but with more solemn times...
Literatus: Coincidence and presliced peppers
Call it coincidence.
When the family had supper in a food court somewhere in Talisay City, we opted for the more oily middle-eastern inspired rice treat (the first time I tasted one) instead of the familiar steamed rice. Topping that with a sunny fried egg makes the taste and texture...
Literatus: Coincidence and presliced peppers
Call it coincidence.
When the family had supper in a food court somewhere in Talisay City, we opted for the more oily middle-eastern inspired rice treat (the first time I tasted one) instead of the familiar steamed rice. Topping that with a sunny fried egg makes the taste and texture...
Literatus: When food loves back
WHILE Francis Bacon believed that “in charity there is no excess,” when we talk of food, there are always those who simply eat in excess.
In an earlier article, a review on many toxicity studies on MSG gave us some reassuring news that sweetening our meat dishes may not be that unhealthy...
Literatus: Predisposed to die
OF COURSE, eventually we all die. English metaphysical poet and Anglican priest John Donne said: “God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man’s grave is his Sabbath.”
But certain genetic makeup predisposes people to die in certain diseases. In a way of speaking, our genes can set us...
Literatus: Intimate terrorism by women
WHEN I first threw a glance at the research report, my eyes caught the word “terrorism.” And my mind automatically asked what terrorism has to do with health.
When I looked closer at the study by Denise Hines and Emily Douglas, published in Partner Abuse (Jan. 1, 2010), I realized it had...
