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Audiogram
Definition
An audiogram is a graph showing hearing level as
a function of frequency, as measured by an audiometer.
The vertical lines on an audiogram represent pitch
or frequency. The most important pitches for speech
are 500–3000Hz. The horizontal lines represent loudness
or intensity. A reading of 0 dB on an audiogram
denotes the hearing threshold level regarded as the
normal audiometric standard at that frequency. Points
below zero on the scale denote louder threshold levels,
whereas those above, expressed in negative decibels
with respect to the zero level, are less intense levels
that, because of individual hearing differences, some
people may normally hear. The softest sound a person
is able to hear at each pitch is called the threshold and is
recorded on the audiogram. Thresholds of 0–25 dB are
considered normal (for adults).

Anorexia nervosa
Definition
Persons suffering from anorexia nervosa show selfinflicted,
substantial weight loss and retention of weight
that is too low for their age (BMI < 17.5 kg/m2 in
adults), or insufficient weight gain, accompanied by the
conviction that one is overweight despite being underweight.
Anorexia nervosa occurs most often at the age
of 14.
Cross-References
 Eating Disorders

Oily fish: Mackerel is a good source of vitamin D

Vitamin D may offer protection against the most common form of diabetes.

New research shows that, in particular, men with the highest blood level of the vitamin were 72 per cent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

There was a reduced effect among women.

Scientists in Finland monitored several thousand people, aged 40 to 74, for 22 years, during which time 412 developed the disease.

Results showed that those with higher levels of vitamin D had the lower risk of diabetes.

It is thought that low levels of vitamin D affect the body’s ability to produce insulin.

Diabetes type 2 is a growing health problem.

There are 1.9 million adults in the UK with diagnosed diabetes, and it is estimated there are another 589,000 unidentified sufferers.

Risk increases with age - less than one per cent of people under 34 have diagnosed diabetes compared with 10 per cent aged 75 and over.

Here’s something new to add to the growing amount of affidavit to get able amounts of vitamin D: it may advice anticipate borderline avenue ache (PAD), a action that causes leg affliction and asleep and can baffle with walking.

PAD develops if blubbery deposits attenuated the arteries in the legs, and affects about eight actor Americans. Advisers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York analyzed abstracts from a analysis of added than 4,800 adults to analyze vitamin D levels with the accident of PAD.

They begin that the college the levels of the sunshine vitamin, the lower the prevalence of PAD—in fact, the ache was 64 percent added accepted a part of abstraction participants with the everyman levels of vitamin D than a part of those whose vitamin D levels were highest.

The advisers did agenda that they couldn’t be abiding that vitamin D—or the abridgement of it—is anon amenable for PAD because top levels of the vitamin could artlessly be an adumbration of a advantageous diet and added benign bloom practices that ability be careful adjoin PAD.

Vitamins and minerals can be absorbed by the body in a number of ways. They first enter our body through the food we eat. Secondly, we can take vitamin supplements to increase the amount of pertinent vitamins and minerals. There are different methods of taking medication and one of the most common methods is absorbing it in its liquid form. Do the advantages of liquid vitamins far outweigh its disadvantages �” if there are any? Read on and find out.
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In order to keep ailments away and to lead a healthy life, regular intake of vitamins is very important. But the problem is that the food a person takes regularly does not contain enough vitamins. If some of the food items have more than enough of vitamins then some other lack in it drastically. This results in an imbalance in nutritional values that a person needs to have in his food on regular basis. That is why, it is necessary to take something that compensates it.
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The importance of a diet that is both nutritious and varied is the key to good mental health and good emotional health. Sometimes even the best diets do not provide adequate nutrients that are needed and some children need more of certain nutrients. We’ve also seen that children may be very picky eaters. Never mind the challenge of providing meals, that are perfectly balanced in nutritional value and then overcoming the nay-sayer child. Continue Reading…

Everyone has heard old saying: Laughter is the best medicine. So much has been written and discussed about the value of laughter in our lives, and how laughing can make us happy, even if we aren’t happy to start with. Laughter brings people together, and is an important part of our overall life happiness. Continue Reading…