... Abstract Some of the biggest global issues are poor diets, environmental concerns, and poverty. To tackle malnutrition, fast-growing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, environmental concerns like climate change, land and water scarcity, and poverty, we need to incorporate dietary and on-farm...

..., strategies are needed that can effectively impact widespread dietary practices and population nutrition and health. Increasingly, the food environment has been recognized as a powerful influencer of the quality of diets of community members. Local nutrition policies can effectively change the food...

... disease may cause change, dissolution, or emergence of artistic creativity. The visual artistic production may become impaired in individuals with a variety of brain diseases, including focal and generalised disorders of sudden and slowly progressive onset. In addition to that, neurological disorders may...

... Abstract Minimal change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS) usually responds to steroids but frequently relapses, requiring additional treatment with immunosuppressive agents. Rituximab is a chimeric murine/human monoclonal immunoglobulin G1 antibody that targets CD20, a B-cell differentiation marker. B...

... of available, effective, affordable interventions in scale-up programs is in part attributed to a lack of innovative, creative and effective behavioral change strategies that enable and encourage caregivers. Successful behavioral change strategies should be based on a rigorous situational analysis...

... 4. Prochaska JO, DiClemente CC, Norcross JC: In search of how people change. Applications to addictive behaviors. Am Psychol 1992;47:1102-1114 5. Willey C, Redding C, Stafford J, et al: Stages of change for adherence with medication regimens for chronic disease: development and validation...

... Abstract Climate change with global warming is a physicometeorological fact that, among other aspects, will also affect human health. Apart from cardiovascular and infectious diseases, allergies seem to be at the forefront of the sequelae of climate change. By increasing temperature...

... interference to obtain what they need leads to a bad ecosystem state, which could be irreversible if transgressed, leading to a state less conducive to human development. Industrialization, deforestation and excessive population have caused a big change in global climate. The three main hypotheses...

... Climate change does not respect national boundaries. Its reach is global, but its consequences are not homogeneous. A great many factors ranging from geographical location to local practices will potentially play a role. The fall-out of global warming and climate change overall may be expected...

... Climate change is predicted to have an effect on most of the world's population in the near future, with substantial implications for health and well-being [ 1 ]. The rise in the earth's temperature and anticipated increased frequency of extreme weather events such as cyclones, floods...

... are called for, especially in the light of expected climate changes, environmental crises, new agricultural challenges, and related effects that may be critical for the economy, society and public health. The appearance of agriculture and domestication of animals some 10,000 years ago and the Industrial...

... Abstract The physical fitness of school-age children in the United States is considered from twoperspectives - status and secular change. This chapter principally examines health-relatedfitness, including the BMI, though performance-related fitness is briefly considered.Concepts of reference...

... Abstract In patients with acute pancreatitis, reparative changes of frank parenchymal necrosis,divided into granulation tissue, fibro-granulation tissue and fibrosis, occur depending on theduration and severity of the illness. Fibrosis in the apparently uninvolved areas in patientswith acute...