Basics of the U.S. Health Care System, Second Edition provides students with a broad, fundamental introduction to the workings of the healthcare industry. Engaging and activities-oriented, the text offers an especially accessible overview of the major concepts of healthcare operations, the role of government, public and private financing, as well as ethical and legal issues.… Read More »
Vitamins are micro-nutrients. They were discovered by Eijkman (1897) in Indonesia, Java, while studying a disease called beriberi common among natives whose main diet was rice. He noticed that fowl fed on polished rice, developed beri beri, but not when fed on crudely milled rice. In 1911 Funk obtained an alcoholic extract of the outer… Read More »
The zone diet plan is known to be a unique eating plan, which helps in reducing weight efficiently. So if you are planning to eat on zone diet, it’s really important to know how much is too much and is also good for you at the same time. Thing to understand is which diet plan… Read More »
The western world is one filled with technology and wonderful incites into medicine. Much relief of ailments can be found at local stores as ‘over-the-counter’ medicine. Greater ailments can be healed through wondrous medical procedures and prescription drugs. If I have a headache I would be able to grab some sort of aspirin or other… Read More »
A macrobiotic diet is a diet formulated by the belief that food, and the quality of food, has an affect on a persons life on a greater extent than most people realize. Practitioners of this type of diet believe that food has an affect on health, as well as happiness and well being. Those who… Read More »