Breakthroughs Today

There is one good way ensure that eating sweet orange will not cause stomach hyperacidity. And there is one reason more...   ONLY recently did I learn that my mother had been wondering why each time she saw me eating sweet oranges, I ate the whole segment—juice and all—instead of extracting just the juice alone and throwing away the pulp with the peel.   The reason why I do that is a fruit of observation (pun intended). I noticed that the flesh is somewhat alkaline in the presence of its bitter taste, compared to the acidic (sharp) taste of the juice. While of better composition than synthetic juice, fresh raw juice can still stimulate unwanted reactions in the stomach of those who are sensitive to it. And for many years I have avoided eating sweet oranges for that reason. Of course that’s before I noticed the alkaline character of the orange flesh.   Recently I read three studies from early 2000s (2004, 2005 and 2007) revealing that there is more to eating citrus flesh

ONE of the few important sideshows in the final days of the Lord before His Passion was the death of Judas Iscariot. He was a man who had chosen life when he followed the Master and later chose a tragic way of escaping the demands of his conscience.   Science, including health science, however, has no definition of the term “conscience.” Psychoanalysis equates it with the superego, the evaluator of the ego (segment of personality that reality dominates) against an ideal standard.   Mental health sciences do have an equivalent of the phrase: “disturbed conscience.”   And that is guilt, a remorseful awareness of having done something wrong, or violated a moral standard. Psychoanalysis describes it as a feeling of tension between the ego and the superego. A healthy dose of guilt is good. It... [ READ MORE ] This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 17 April 2013.

Can eating less make you fatter? Find out how it can.   LEWIS Carroll (1832-1898) reflected in his poem Through the Looking Glass the common presumption on how obesity develops in a person over eating. The concept is as simple as basic mathematics: the more you eat, the more you get fat.   Thus, meal skipping becomes a logical way to go. Since those in active work cannot afford a full day skip, workers often skip breakfast more commonly than lunch or supper.   A recent study that Monika Arora of Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth and colleagues conducted in New Delhi, India, seemed to suggest that the opposite is true. The results published in BMC Public Health (October 2012) reported that more children who regularly skip breakfast get more obese (22.9 percent) than those who breakfast daily (14.6 percent) or only sometimes (15.2 percent). And apparently these were significant only among boys than among girls. Such results seem to contradict what app