A syndrome is defined as a recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours. In other words, a combination of classic signs attached to some particular conditions makes them syndromes. In the case of syndrome X, most of the disorders associated with it don’t have obvious signs and symptoms, defying the first rule of the word…
Any basic definition of ‘food’ should revolve around the central idea that you take in food to nourishment. Why then should we let our food be the very cause of ill health? Problems arising from poor food hygiene and sanitation are at best unpleasant, a few episodes of vomiting and diarrhea might suffice; at worst,…
The developed world has experienced the transition from the nutritional burden of under nutrition to obesity, that’s a whole new set of problems too anyway. Yet, the developing countries are still most affected. Why? There’s now a double burden of nutrition on most developing countries. On one side is the privileged and well-fed population tending…
Once upon a time, the problem was ‘not eating enough’. People were simply not getting enough to eat or had to engage in extremely active lifestyles to get their food. Health care was nothing to write home about and the average life expectancy was low. Then modernization, economic development and increased diets led to predictable…
This shouldn’t sound unfamiliar to any lover of Hollywood movies. A man is travelling with his wife and daughter along the highway. He’s laughing, they’re both laughing, there’s simply a lot of love in the air. Then an oncoming truck accelerates out of nowhere, hits the car off the road into a ditch….and only the…