Obesity: Problem, Solution, or Both?

Obesity: problem, solution, or both?

Ambulant Market Foods: Consumer Problem or Solution?

  Background: The sale of food by street vendors is an activity of economic, sanitary, and nutritional importance, but these foods can pose a high risk to the health of consumers in inadequate conditions of preparation and storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the preparation conditions and the hygienic-sanitary quality of food sold by street vendors in the vicinity of four campuse...

Human obesity: FTO, IRX3, or both?a

Until recently, evidence was lacking for an enhanced gene expression of the fat mass and obesity (FTO) gene in humans who carry obesitysusceptible genetic variants in FTO. By using a data set of 153 cerebellar brain samples from individuals of European ancestry, Smemo and colleagues have now demonstrated that carriers of common single nucleotide polymorphisms in the FTO gene exhibit a higher ce...

Septoplasty in children: problem or solution?

It the Solution, or the Problem?

I f r e q u e n t l y f i n d m y s e l f i n t h e p o s i t i o n o f b e i n g s o m e t h i n g o f a h e r e t i c ; c o n t i n u a l l y preaching to the unconverted, t r y i n g t o s a y “Hey ! geographers have got something to say to you geologists” and then turning around t o t h e geographers and saying “We1 1 look! The geologists have got some r e a l l y i n t e r esting problems ...