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Smoking can cause autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. In particular, smoking can double a persons’ risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Tobacco use can also be accredited for the periodic flare-ups of particular symptoms and signs of certain autoimmune diseases. Recently, smoking cigarettes has been linked to type two diabetes, which is also known as adult-onset diabetes. Research shows that those who smoke are 30% to 40% more likely to develop type than…

Benefits of Vitamin C Vitamins are substances that the human body needs to grow and develop normally. (1) Vitamins are efficacious in preventing and curing a variety of ailments ranging from heart conditions, high cholesterol level, eye disorders to skin disorders. Generally, vitamins boost many of the metabolic mechanisms and perform functions that other nutrients don't. Vitamins can be acquired in various ways, commonly through the foods we eat. However, depending on the cuisine and…

E-number food additives, their chemistry and role in food Since the dawn of time, humans had using several simpler and yet natural food preservation techniques such as preserving meat using salt, or immersing onions and cucumber in a jar of vinegar to keep the food fresh and last longer. The method of preserving food had been evolved over a significant period of time. (Heldman, 2003) Food additives are either a natural or synthetic substances which was added intentionally to food to improve the…

The Promising Future for Retinal Visual Prosthesis The human eye is a complex organ capable of harnessing light and translating it into a message that the brain uses to create an image. There are many structure in both the eye and the brain that are responsible for creating an image. The structures in the eye function to collect light from the environment, focus it, and transform it into an electrical impulse that the brain can interpret. The first of these structures is the iris. The iris…

We thank the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the opportunity to provide comments on the proposed rule Medicare Program: Part B Drug Payment Model (CMS-1670-P) published in the Federal Register on March 11, 2016. Under the proposed rule, CMS would implement a two-phase model to test whether alternative drug payment designs will lead to a reduction in Medicare expenditures, while preserving or enhancing the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. The first phase…

What Should a Pesco-vegetarian Expect to Achieve? To become a pesco-vegetarian is challenging in the beginning, because meat is delicious, and many of us are not readily or willing to cut it out of our lifestyles. Reducing and eliminating the meat that we consume is an easy first step towards increased health. Adopting the pesco-vegetarian lifestyle is one way of doing this... Pesco-vegetarian is a new term used to describe a lifestyle that focuses on vegetarian foods but occasionally…