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A more specific term, lipoatrophy (from Greek lipo 'fat' and dystrophy 'abnormal or degenerative condition'), is used when describing the loss of fat from one area (usually the face). This condition is also characterized by a lack of circulating leptin which may lead to osteosclerosis .
[13]: 11 Therefore, in Galen's dietary treatise "On the Powers of Foods", recipes are often given in addition to descriptions of foods as being salty or sweet, sour or watery, difficult or easy to digest, costive or laxative, cooling or heating, etc. Galen insists that the balance of the four humors can be beneficially or adversely effected by ...
Herodicus. Herodicus (Greek: Ἡρóδιĸος) was a 5th century BC Greek physician, dietician, sophist, and gymnastic master (παιδοτρίβης). [1] [2] He was born in the city of Selymbria, a colony of the city-state Megara, and practiced medicine in various Greek cities including Selymbria, Megara, Athens, and Cnidos.
On the 80/20 diet, you eat nutritious foods 80 percent of the time and indulge 20 percent. Weight loss MDs share how to follow the 80/20 rule and what to eat.
Diet was the first prescribed treatment of disease followed by drugs, then surgery. [22] Early physicians studied the different ways foods would affect the humors of the body by restoring health or causing disease. Utilizing knowledge about how humors were affected by diet physicians prescribed diets with balance, moderation, and timing in mind.
As GLP-1 weight-loss injectables grow in popularity, some people are wondering if they can skip the drugs — which impact satiety — to indulge in holiday meals
The Mediterranean diet is a concept first invented in 1975 by the American biologist Ancel Keys and chemist Margaret Keys. The diet took inspiration from the supposed eating habits and traditional food typical of Crete, much of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy, and formulated in the early 1960s. [1]
First, ask about specific dietary restrictions or preferences well in advance and clarify which are medically necessary (e.g., allergies or intolerances) and which are preferences.”