Superstitions among American Girls

Consumption of calcium among African American adolescent girls.

OBJECTIVE To determine the adequacy of calcium intake of children by demographic group in the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) and compare to national statistics. DESIGN FOODS 2000 was used to examine the dietary calcium intake of LMD children and compare it to US children in the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) 1994-1996, 1998. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The sample of 46...

Medical Superstitions in Ireland

WHEN I was a small child I had an attack of whooping-cough, for which ailment I received whatever medical treatment was then in vogue. In addition to this, however, I was taken to the gasworks. The fumes of the gas were no more efficacious than the more orthodox remedies, and as my whooping was apparently distressing to listen to, I was next taken to a large brewery and encouraged to hang over ...

Medieval marriage and superstitions.

Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS): new approaches to obesity prevention among young African-American girls.

The Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS) is an obesity prevention research program sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), targeting young African-American girls. Expert groups have suggested that the high prevalence of obesity in African-American women could be a contributing factor to their excess morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease com...

Contemporary Medical Superstitions

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...