Magazine Science

This article is Chapter I from the author's book Statistics and Probability Flashcards. Definitions Individuals and variables In a dataset, the individuals are the items with one...

Food supplements are foodstuffs intended to supplement the normal diet, the constitute a concentrated source of nutrients or other substances having, alone or in...

The notion of probiotics has recently developed and most pharmacists have not been trained in these new food supplements. From birth, our gastrointestinal tract is...

The gastrointestinal tract is important to human health and key to this is the trillions of bacteria that live in our gut, it carries...

Probiotics are living bacteria and yeasts. The health advantages of probiotic supplements and foods have been well documented, for instance, they help losing weight, maintaining...

There are approximately 3.8·1013 single-celled microorganisms for every single "reference man"  weighing 140 pounds, and their total mass is about 200 grams (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Intestinal microbiota aids in the breakdown of food products...

Like cow milk, goat milk is technically considered a type of dairy because it's produced from a mammal. Its high in many necessary nutrients...

The soothing effects of bananas may be explained by the presence of L-tryptophan in the fruit, an amino acid essential for the production of serotonin (a...

An Essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile - at normal temperatures - chemical compounds from plants. The term 'essential' does not mean 'necessary'...

Fear of Poison or Toxicophobia may be defined as an overwhelming and debilitating fear (phobia) of being poisoned by contact or ingestion of 'imaginary' poisons...