tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46287711295143495122026-09-19T19:52:57.650+08:00Groundbreaking science before the newsZosimo Literatushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05411972134381602490noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628771129514349512.post-18480975042975463232022-01-08T22:42:00.012+08:002022-01-08T22:44:28.698+08:00

 (Source: Penzit, 2015)UNITED KINGDOMAs of 29 December 2021, the UK Health Security Agency reported the current status of its Omicron cases under emergency care. The lowest emergency admission rate is among those who received one dose of vaccine up to 21 days before specimen date: 0.1%. However, the overall rate for vaccinated individuals was very high at 72.5%. The unvaccinated emergency

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 Because of the unverified safety of all Covid-19 vaccines available today, there is a need to balance the great optimism in most reports with the stark facts of reported adverse effects and current levels of acceptance among citizens in different countries. By definition, vaccination protects the person from targeted viruses by initiating immune response using non-virulent materials from

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“WHEN you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t,” described Luke Davies in Candy on how addiction feels like. It may be surprising, or even unbelievable, but the overall addiction potential for cannabis has been found less than for caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, cocaine or heroin. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5)

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It always pays to read more about food if you are concerned with your own health and well-being. Science and technology have brought us so much we have no means of learning them all. Despite that, the risk of ignorance can be costly in fact even to your life. The mysterious "un-sub" (unknown substance) we cover this week is one of these. OUR mysterious substance (sub) in drinks, particularly

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There are health conditions that can be horrible and unnerving as well as helplessly incurable at this time. And Tourette Syndrome is one of them. STARTING May 15, the world will be celebrating Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. Breakthroughs supports this move with a special discussion of this inherited neuropsychiatric disorder.  Tourette usually starts to manifest in

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In addition to its popular use as a mildly acidic juice, passion fruit has been found useful in providing both soluble and insoluble fibers to the body, a proven diet that brings down bad cholesterol from the body and consequently protects the person from circulatory diseases later on.  AT TIMES passion is a fruit of love. Although the same is true the other way around.  What

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The statistics are unmistakably clear. One out of two adult person you meet along the way has suffered from the itchy affliction, a 2012 study published at the International Journal of Cosmetic Science found so.  A POPULAR Visayan song may have lyrics like this when it comes to flakes: “Dili tanang hup-ak kan-on; dili tanang kan-on hup-ak” (literally translated as “not all

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Through years of research, I came to appreciate the infinite complexity of the human body, its systems, and the varied interactions it performs with substances in nature even those the support its health and survival, including food supplements. And not understanding such interaction can be dangerous to your health. ELEMENTAL copper abounds in nature. Our regular diet may provide 5 mg per

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There is much in advertising today that consumers must be wary about. Advertising can be seriously deceptive. And certain advertising outfits will not care on the truth of the message if the pay-off is great. Smoking cessation products today can be as dangerous as advertised. These ads can have believable messages... but with a dangerous twist. “THERE is nothing more deceptive than an

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Smoking is one habit that is very hard to break. In fact, it is more than a habit; it is an addiction. And all addictions do not lead to something healthy. Here are some updates on the advances in science and technology at helping smokers stop smoking. THE World No Tobacco Day was held on May 31. The Philippine National No-Smoking Month ended on June 30. However, in the implementation side

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There's a "balloon" in us that may exist without us knowing it does. And the outcome can be deadly. ACTRESS Kim Chiu’s mother was laid to rest on June 29 at age 50. Her death though brought to the public’s attention the deadly handiwork of aneurysm.  Aneurism is a localized, blood-filled bulge (balloon-like) in the wall of a blood vessel that usually carries oxygenated blood,

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IT WAS not very long ago—in 1967—that Hungarian scientist Endre Mester invented the first working laser. And its use in medical therapy was born of an accidental observation with mice subjects: The back of shaven mice unexpectedly grew hair after laser was directed on it. And such invigoration of hair (growth) proved much faster than when no laser had been applied.  Today, the use of

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WE USED to think that high uric acid levels in the bloodstream pinpointed only towards inflammatory conditions particularly of the joints (gout). Recent development in clinical research uncovered a very clear effect of hyperuricemia in developing Type-2 diabetes mellitus. A team of 12 Chinese researchers, mostly from the Department of Nephrology at the Union Hospital in Wuhan, China,

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One thing to be surprised with passion fruit is how supportive it is towards the heart.  MARK DANIELEWSKI wrote in House of Leaves: “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance… It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”  June is a favorite month for weddings. It must be a

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Sometimes even in nature danger has strange bedfellows. Who will ever suspect that licorice, a useful sugar replacement can be as dangerous as two sticks of cigarettes just because of one or two common active ingredients. THE Greeks called it sweet (glukus) root (rhiza). Taxonomists named it Glycyrrhiza glabra (“sweet root” that is “smooth”). Yet we know it as “liquorice,” or simply “

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BUREAU OF PLANT Industry-approved bio-enhanced eggplant, Bt Talong. The eggplant contains genetically engineered bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis, a oil bacteria inserted into the plant to produce insecticidal properties. While largely uncertain yet on harmful effects it can bring to human consumer, the University of the Philippine-Los Banos had been field testing it already in Pangasinan

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Here's something you need to be aware of to avoid getting frequent bouts of dyspepsia.  WHEN you repeat or hear repeatedly a difficult word often enough you get to know it by heart. That’s the case with the word dyspepsia. The Greek root dys means “painful” (remember, "painful menstruation" in dysmenorrhea); while pepsia or pepsis means “to digest.” Together, and literally, dyspepsia

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I GUESS the most painful experience a person can have upon waking up is to have muscle cramps.  The condition consists of a sudden but involuntary contraction of a muscle or part of it that is painful as well as self-extinguishing (or self-limiting), with a palpable knotting of the muscle accompanying it.  But the condition is normal. There is nothing serious enough to worry

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Sometimes we get so excited with vitamineral pills we forget that our body too is capable of synthesizing these vitamins. Guess which vitamin or mineral is that? TO PARAPHRASE a Yiddish proverb: “Even a dog without teeth attacks a bone.” It seems nature has something against the bone eventually, hasn’t it? The United States Institute of Medicine set the daily recommended intake of calcium

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Did God document in the Passion flower the Passion of His own Son as a witness to the redemption of mankind? We may never know. But God did create the flower to aid among us who are suffering from some specific diseases.   SCIENTISTS named it Passiflora, a genus of flower vines that contains 400 species; mostly vines, some shrubs and a few herbs. And some of these species have known

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There is one good way ensure that eating sweet orange will not cause stomach hyperacidity. And there is one reason more...   ONLY recently did I learn that my mother had been wondering why each time she saw me eating sweet oranges, I ate the whole segment—juice and all—instead of extracting just the juice alone and throwing away the pulp with the peel.   The reason why I do that

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ONE of the few important sideshows in the final days of the Lord before His Passion was the death of Judas Iscariot. He was a man who had chosen life when he followed the Master and later chose a tragic way of escaping the demands of his conscience.   Science, including health science, however, has no definition of the term “conscience.” Psychoanalysis equates it with the superego, the

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Can eating less make you fatter? Find out how it can.   LEWIS Carroll (1832-1898) reflected in his poem Through the Looking Glass the common presumption on how obesity develops in a person over eating. The concept is as simple as basic mathematics: the more you eat, the more you get fat.   Thus, meal skipping becomes a logical way to go. Since those in active work cannot afford

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  Even a gift can get overused to its destruction.   BIBLICAL wisdom contends that any gift unused will cease to be. Clinical experience, however, observed that frequently used gifts, while they may not disappear, can be so strained that these will eventually become unusable. In fact, these can be plagued with disease of overuse, so that further use of it can be dangerous to

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The application of shellac is wide-ranging than most people think it is. And one of those applications is as glaze on fruits and vegetables sold in your fruit stands and grocery stores.   “IT'S easy for Americans,” says former US Sen. Christopher Dodd, “to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.” That may also be true for Filipinos.   While

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