this information sheet contains the necessary information to educate mothers in the early weeks after delivery. so in a relaxed opportunity to read it. if you plan to feed your baby by breast feeding, it is necessary to read it prior to discharge from hospital. note that the duration of breast feeding in the first weeks after the labor is 20 minutes. the best way for breastfeeding is to give th...

In Nigeria, decades of protracted military rule deepened poverty and created a situation in which many children are undernourished. According to the last National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS, 2003), 29% of Nigerian children under five years are considered underweight. Today Nigeria is among the ten countries in the world with the largest number of underweight children, with an estimated...

In the 1996 Nutritional Prevention of Cancer (NPC) trial, selenium supplementation was associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer. This relationship was further studied in two large well‐ designed clinical trials, but no significant associations were found. However, the study populations in both of these trials had a moderate to high selenium status while the NPC trial population had a l...

Ability to perceive fast-paced events (a rangeof short intervals) is one of the important cognitive skills inhumans. The underlying mechanism of this ability stillremains elusive. We designed a study to investigate thesubjective perception of short-intervals (10, 20, 60 and120 s) in a cohort of healthy young male and female uni-versity students. The subjects estimated th...

The advantages of freeze-drying are obvious. It is a convenient method for the preservation and long-term storage of a wide variety of microorganisms. However, special precautions are needed for the preservation of microorganisms sensitive to desication, light, oxygen, osmotic pressure, surface tension and other factors. During several years of experimentation I have developed various new metho...

Introduction There is consistent evidence that consumption of tomatoes and tomato products may reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer, especially advanced and aggressive prostate cancer [1]. Even after diagnosis of prostate cancer, consumption of tomatoes and tomato products may reduce the risk of prostate cancer recurrence, progression and death [2]. The protective effects of tomatoes a...