Nowadays, obesity is a pandemic, and some people seek slimming diets to guarantee their health quality of life. However, the cult healthy body has been an ongoing concern since beginning time. Irrespective century which they belong, these cults reflect no empirical knowledge about physiology, nutrients or kilocalories, with them being quantitative in contrast qualitative diets, even simple food...

There are several as-yet unresolved issues with the scientific substantiation and communication of product claims relating to satiety. Core issues include the context, meaning and scope of these claims, and thus the type of clinical evidence required to support them. In particular, there are a range of potential consumer use-contexts for products carrying these claims, which may not necessarily...

Many patients use herbal supplements to treat chronic cardiovascular conditions and often combine herbal ingredients with cardiovascular medications. However, physicians do not reliably elicit a history of herbal use from their patients and may overlook herbal supplements' adverse effects. Although often considered harmless by patients, herbal supplements may cause adverse cardiovascular effect...

Use of herbal medicine in the treatment of liver cancer has a long tradition. The compounds derived from the herb and herbal composites are of considerable interest among oncologists. In the past, certain herbal compounds and herbal composite formulas have been studied through in vitro and in vivo as an anti-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) agent, enhancing our knowledge about their biologic func...

The production of middle-season rice is an important part agriculture in the Yangtze River basin China. In recent years, chalky grain rate has decreased with release new cultivars. However, limited information available on factors responsible for this change rate. This study evaluated trends and size traits cultivars relationships between hybrid a province located middle reaches during 2006–202...

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful bring a huge computation burden, because of exhausting token-to-token comparison. The previous works focus dropping insignificant tokens to reduce computational cost ViTs. But when ratio increases, this hard manner will inevitably di...

Background Ingredients of aloe vera leaves are being increasingly used for their anti-inflammatory and slimming properties. However, serious allergic reactions are very rare and only occasionally reported. Here, we present an eleven year old girl with anaphylaxis within minutes after topical administration of aloe vera to a skin lesion. On admission, the girl showed no signs of respiratory or c...