It is a well established scientific fact that people, on average, do not accurately report or record their food intake. In fact, most people tend to underreport the amount of calories they eat. The degree of underreporting can systematically vary based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, weight, income, education, gender, and various psychological characteristics. The degree ...

In a seminal report, about fifty years ago, Cremer, et al.(1) defined the basic principles of phototherapy as the spectral distribution for the photo-destruction of bilirubin (action spectrum ~ 400-520 nm), the effect of light intensity on the rate of bilirubin photo-degradation in vitro (t1⁄2=23 minutes, for sunlight) and the in vivo rate of bilirubin decline (–1.0 to 3.5 mg/dL/h or –17 to 60 ...