Atherosclerosis Room 40, a 69-year-old male, presented to a large regional medical center with complaints of severe pain in his right foot and lower leg. His right foot and lower leg were also cool without evidence of pulses. Room 40’s past medical history consists of DM1. He was diagnosed with atherosclerosis in the right popliteal artery after the conduction of an arteriogram. Procedures were performed to relieve the obstructed blood flow caused by atherosclerosis but the foot and lower leg continued
The researches performed this study to test the effect of dark chocolate on graft atherosclerosis. Within this study, dark chocolate was tested to see if the flavonoids can benefit health in heart transplant patients. To do so, Flammer et al. conducted a study in which 22 heart transplant recipients (18 men 4 women) were placed into a double-blind study in which they were given either dark chocolate or a control chocolate. The chocolate in this study was made by Nestle located in Lausanne, Switzerland
cm long. It is listed as one of the useful plants of the world (Fletcher, 1997). The trunk of the palm is used for construction, as well as for manufactureof various domestic utensils and the leaves are used to make mats, bind parcels and writing paper. The oblong, yellow-orange apple sized fruit has a red outer skin, a thick, spongy and rather sweet fibrous fruit pulp (mesocarp) that tastes like gingerbread and a large kernel. The fleshy mesocarp of the fruits are eaten and the juice of H. thebiaca
Turmeric is a spice that comes from the plant Curcuma longa that belongs to the ginger family. Turmeric can be also called as curcumin. However, it is important for to know that “turmeric is the yellowish powder used to flavor foods, while curcumin is a chemical contained within turmeric”(Busse, 2017). “The name “turmeric” is derived from the Persian word for "saffron," the neon yellow-orange hue used to make curry and yellow mustard”(Mercola, n.d.). Turmeric is commonly used as the main spice in
The demand for starches arises largely from the paper, textile, construction and pharmaceutical industries. Food sector is one of the potential sector which is largely untapped due to legal restriction regarding the use of modified starches which results in low rate growing in food sector. The demand