INTRODUCTION Breast feeding can promote positive long-term and short-term health outcomes in infant and mother. The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates (duration and exclusivity) in the world, resulting in preventable morbidities and associated healthcare costs. Breastfeeding rates are also socially patterned, thereby potentially contributing to health inequalities. Financial incentive...

Correspondence to Dr Clare Relton; [email protected] ABSTRACT Introduction: Breast feeding can promote positive long-term and short-term health outcomes in infant and mother. The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates (duration and exclusivity) in the world, resulting in preventable morbidities and associated healthcare costs. Breastfeeding rates are also socially patterned, thereb...

10.1016/S1674-6384(14)60042-3 Licorice (the roots of Glycyrrhiza uralensis) is widely-used in Chinese herbal compound prescriptions for its functions of nourishing qi, alleviating pain, tonifying spleen and stomach, eliminating phlegm, relieving coughing, and harmonizing prescriptions. It contains more than 20 triterpenoids and approximately 300 flavonoids. In recent years, many studies have r...

ditions :? Aroor Singh, Hindoo, aged 28 years, presented himself for treatment at Ferosepore Dispensary on February 15th, 1884, suffering from extensive scrofulous disease of the right knee joint of long standing. On admission he was fearfully emaciated ; the knee joint was greatly enlarged and inflamed,, and a foetid discharge issued from its many sinuses. On account of patient's debilitated c...

Brewing has been mentioned in history as early as Egyptian times and has continued on to the present day with relatively few changes to the basic recipe. Malted barley is the main ingredient, which, when milled and heated in water to extract its nutrients, provides a nourishing sugarand protein-rich solution named wort (pronounced wert), an ideal medium in which yeast may grow and ferment. In c...

‘‘I have also found that these [water of consumptives] when placed on the fire, soon become milky, really smelled like milk, and had the taste of sweet milk; when a drop or two of acetic acid were added to this, and it was then placed in the cool air, shortly a white rennet, namely the caseous part, sank to the bottom, and the oily or buttery part floated up and there was a sweet whey, quite ho...

The possibilities for building and nourishing connections among the social, cultural, neuroscientific, biological, and cognitive sciences in the service of understanding children and their development are tremendously exciting. Crossing, and integrating across, disciplinary boundaries, especially those disciplines relating to biology/neuroscience, society/culture, cognition, emotion, perception...

Many people seem to have a secret hangover remedy they swear by and many companies are banking on the fact that those "morning after" hangover symptoms can be downright awful. A word to the wise, however: the only real "cure" for a hangover is time. In the meantime, nourishing the body can help to overcome a hangover by treating [2] the symptoms. In terms of that flashy new hangover cure you me...

Many people seem to have a secret hangover remedy they swear by and many companies are banking on the fact that those "morning after" hangover symptoms can be downright awful. A word to the wise, however: the only real "cure" for a hangover is time. In the meantime, nourishing the body can help to overcome a hangover by treating [2] the symptoms. In terms of that flashy new hangover cure you me...

Enteral nutrition is the process of nourishing a patient with a liquid diet of defined composition, usually given through a nasogastric, nasointestinal, gastrostomy, or jejunostomy tube. Parenteral nutrition is the administration of nutrients directly into the bloodstream through a central venous catheter or by peripheral infusion. When the only source of nutrient intake is via the parenteral r...