Blood redox balance among male Japanese forestry workers before and after workView further author informationShigeki SasakiView further author informationHiromi TsubotaView further author informationYumi KiyamaView further author informationMikihiro Shimizu...
OBJECTIVES: This observational study was conducted to compare the significance of the relationship between arterial stiffness and progression to higher blood pressure categories among middle-aged Japanese men with high normal blood pressure (HNP), normal blood pressure (NRP) and optimal blood pressure (...
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is known to have obesity as a risk factor. Body mass index cannot distinguish between lean mass and fat mass. We aimed to examine the association between predicted fat mass, predicted lean mass, predicted percent fat and r
(And it makes my blood boil.) … I would change my hair color into a honey blond that changes into lighter shades of almost white during the summer, just like Jamie’s. If I could change my name, if I could change my parents, I could change my life. I would be an American. But...
Buddhism’s claim to be a universal religion would seem to be severely compromised by its exclusion of certain groups of people from its scheme of salvation. Women, in particular, were treated at one time or another as less than fit vessels for attaining enlightenment. As is well known, even...
by just five formulas, if appropriately adjusted (Table1). The names of the first two types, the stagnant blood constitution and the poisoned organ constitution, describe their main pathological tendencies; individuals of the third type, the detoxification constitution, tend to accumulate liver poison...
This effect could also be explained by differences in lifestyle habits between sexes. Negative factors, such as smoking—which may counteract the benefits of ahealthy diet—were found to be far more common among men. Also, male participants were more likely to stray from the traditional Japanese...
The man in the purple shirt lay there lifeless with his eyes rolled back in his head, not even breathing, while all his dark blood poured out onto the white tile.”– Ken Seeroi, Japanese Rule of 7. The crime rate is low in Japan and it is considered a very safe country (Wright,...
Originally a blood-sucking man-eating demoness, Dakiniten was converted by Vairocana (Dainichi) Buddha into a powerful life-engendering deity. In the complex interaction of Buddhism, Shinto, and Taoist yin-yang practices in medieval Japan, this icon embodied near-magical powers of fecundity that ...