Vegetable consumption and acute appendicitis

Fruit and vegetable consumption.

OBJECTIVES This article focuses on associations between the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption and other health-related behaviours or conditions, including physical activity, smoking, obesity and alcohol-dependence. DATA SOURCE The data are from the first half of cycle 1.1 of the Canadian Community Health Survey, collected from September 2000 through February 2001. ANALYTICAL TECH...

Low fruit and vegetable consumption

This analysis assessed the levels of mean dietary intakes of fruit and vegetables (excluding potatoes) measured in grams per day. The theoreticalminimum-risk distribution for fruit and vegetable intake was estimated to be 600g/day in adults, 480g/day in children aged 5–14 years, and 330g/day in children aged 0–4 years. It is proposed to use set intervals of 80g/day of fruit and vegetables (equi...

The Role of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Mental Health

Acute Appendicitis

Acute Appendicitis

THE most serious feature of this disease is that the mortality is not diminishing to an extent commensurate with our experience of it. The Registrar-General's returns for Northern Ireland show an average of ninety-five deaths yearly from this cause during the ten-year period, 1920-9. In 1930 it caused eighty-six deaths in the Six Counties, and this despite a declining population. These figures ...