Ginger Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinal‚ consumed as a delicacy‚ medicine‚ or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric‚ cardamom‚ and galangal. The distantly related dicots in the Asarum genus have the common name wild ginger because of their similar taste. Ginger is indigenous to southern China‚ from whence it spread to the Spice Islands and other parts of Asia‚ and subsequently
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more prominent factors. Nutrition: von Hurst‚ P.‚ Stonehouse‚ W.‚ Coad‚ J. (2010). Vitamin D supplementation reduces insulin resistance in South Asian women living in New Zealand who are insulin resistant and vitamin D deficient-a randomized‚ placebo-controlled trial. Retrieved from http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7180948&fileId=S0007114509992017 Vitamin D (2010) conducted a trial to see if vitamin D supplementation correlated with insulin resistance
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Ch. 1 Data Collection 1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 1 Define statistics and statistical thinking. SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. Provide an appropriate response. 1) What is statistics? MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 2) Which of the following is not true of statistics? A) Statistics is used to answer questions with 100% certainty. B) Statistics involves collecting and summarizing data
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Fluoxetine or Control Under Supervision (FOCUS): A Study to determine whether Fluoxetine improves recovery after acute Stroke Our invitation to you Contents You are being invited to take part in this research study which aims to examine whether fluoxetine improves recovery after stroke. • Before taking part - Before you decide whether to take part‚ we would like you to understand why we are doing the research and what it will involve. • Take your time - Please take time to read
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LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE USING HIBISCUS FLOWERS. To maintain a proper heath status‚ it is essential that one’s blood pressure remains controlled and sustained within normal limits. Exercising regularly‚ maintaining a healthy diet‚ and taking prescribed antihypertensive medications are among the most common practices when it comes to controlling our blood pressure. However‚ it can be quite difficult finding medications that do not exhibit unpleasant symptoms on us. Doctors often go through trial
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Scientific Method METHODOLOGY Social Psychology: An Empirical Science Hypothesis A hypothesis is a specific prediction about how one variable is related to another. Must be falsifiable. Must be operationally defined. Stated in observable‚ measurable terms. Allows for replication. Types of Research Strategies The Observational Method: Describing Social Behavior Researchers measure and record observable behavior of participants as it occurs in its natural state or habitat. Can obtain
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Agrawal‚ Rai and Singh (1996) in a randomized placebo-controlled‚ single blind trial studied the effects of dried leaf of O. sanctum in a dose 2.5 g daily on fasting and postprandial blood glucose and hyperlipidemic patients. Forty patients‚ (twenty taking oral hypoglycemic agents and twenty with newly diagnosed and not taking any antidiabetic medication) were screened for the study. They were directed to consume 2.5 g of O. sanctum leaf or placebo in water on empty stomach. At the end of the study
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grams of MSG over a period of two hours (“IFIC Review: Glutamate and Monosodium Glutamate: Examining the Myth”). The non-asthmatics reported no pulmonary changes‚ but one asthmatic did report adverse effects. Another study double-blind study using a placebo was done using the same asthmatic subjects as in the previous study mentioned. The asthmatic subjects did not report any adverse pulmonary reactions (Germano et al.). Therefore‚ the researchers concluded that MSG does not have any effect on asthma
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Ginger (Zingiber Officinale): An Organic Fungicide Monique T. Bustamante Sherry Mae B. Mejia Christine Joy U. Sibayan Jerica Mae T. Vetonio Researchers Ms. Violeta Rafanan Adviser Don Ramon E. Costales Memorial National High School Villasis‚ Pangasinan September 2012 ABSTRACT One of alarming problem that maybe encountered by our country next generations was the inadequate agricultural production‚ this all about the foods that is one of the primary needs of people. The increasing number of population
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Ethical challenges in obtaining consent to participation in research Consent is a propositional attitude‚ given in the first instance not to another’s action‚ but to a proposition describing the action to be performed. Consent is an interactive process in which the individuals and various surrogates in case of children and specific vulnerable people autonomously agree to take part in the research in which the risks and benefits are well understood by the subject and they have the voluntary right
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