Have You Tried to Fast and Then... Faint?

I am posting here Doc Emil's blog on this topic, timely for people like us who binge during the holidays and would want to lose the weight we've gained during this time. Doc Emil is a faculty of the uerm graduate school (like me) and he used to be my teacher in a couple of subjects in grad school. Here is his article:
If you’re in for losing weight by eating less but is afraid that you will likely go hypoglycemic, try natural fruit juice or fruit and vegetable mix to replace 1 meal, try not to skip the two regular meals. Blend your own juice and strain the fiber and keep in a cold thermos if you’re working. It would be good to take this fruit meal in the evening instead and have it really fresh and ready for a good night rest. Read more

You can dissolve that stone

This is doc emil's blog on Medicinal plants.
Doc Emil Aligui is a research epidemiologist who had served as researcher in parasitology & infectious/tropical diseases (Research Institute for Tropical Medicine - Assistant Director); as a research manager (Executive Director, Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, Dept. of Science & Technology and Officer-in-Charge of the Food & Nutrition Research Institute - DOST).
There are two important medicinal plants for kidney stones, Blumea balasamifera (sambong) and Orthosiphon aristatus (balbas pusa). These are available almost everywhere. One of the "one stop shop" for medicinal plants is the Bureau of Plant Industry located in San Andres. There you can buy the common medicinal plants. Read More

Free scientific articles

Here are sites where I go to when I search for scientific articles:
First, I search for the article in Pubmed. If the article has a FREE full text, it is written on the upper right hand corner of the page and open that link. Otherwise go to the next step written below.

Second: I go to (http://scholar.google.com.ph/schhp?tab=ms) for the articles which Pubmed has abstracts only. Type the article inside the box of Google scholar and when it comes out, click the phrases at the end of the title of the article which say “All 3…. versions” etc. The versions will come out and choose the version which gives a full article (if you are lucky, one or 2 of the versions may be free).

Another site which is helpful to me is: http://www.unilab.com.ph/hcp/registration.asp. Register as a health professional and you will be given a username. You choose a password afterwards. You will be given instructions. They always give the article that you are searching for within 24 hours EXCEPT during weekends. You will be alerted in your email if the article is already in the unilab e-SDB MD central download center: (http://www.unilab.com.ph/hcp/index.asp).

Happy Searching!