Breakfast: how important is it really?

'Breakfast: how important is it really?' A response.

'Breakfast: how important is it really?' A response Madam First, we would like to thank the author of a recent Letter to the Editor (1) for his positive overall comments on our study (2,3) and for acknowledging that the findings are written with great care. While the letter moves beyond our paper to critique the wider literature surrounding the relationship between breakfast and health outcomes...

. Breakfast : how important is it really ? Public Health

How important is breakfast?

It is popularly said that ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the ~ . i y ’ ; however, like many apparently simple statements this raises questions that turn out to be rather difficult to answer. An obvious question is: important for what? It seems that the phrase usually implies some short-term benefit, such as the avoidance of hunger later in the morning, or the optimization of performan...

Acupuncture in ancient China: how important was it really?

Although acupuncture theory is a fundamental part of the Huangdi Neijing, the clinical application of the needle therapy in ancient China was always a limited one. From early times there have been warnings that acupuncture might do harm. In books like Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghanlun it plays only a marginal role. Among the 400 emperors in Chinese history, acupuncture was hardly ever applied. Afte...

Depressive pseudodementia – how ‘ pseudo ’ is it really ?

Depressive pseudodementia is a term commonly used to describe a condition whereby a patient experiences a cognitive deficit secondary to a primary mood disorder. This essay will explore whether depressive pseudodementia can truly be described as a dementia mimic or not. It argues that pseudodementia is closer in clinical nature to ‘true’ dementia, is not fully reversible, may act as a prodrome ...