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Mary Selvaraj

Mary Selvaraj is a post-graduate (MSc) in Foods and Nutrition. She is a Registered Dietician and a Certified Diabetes Educator. She is a member of Indian Dietetic Association and Indian Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (ISPEN). She loves Bonzo, her dog.

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Research using Mechanics and Physics Shows how Cellular Behaviors Predict Diseases

Research using Mechanics and Physics Shows how Cellular Behaviors Predict Diseases

Research using mechanics and physics of how stressors force the organism to find allostasis has major implications for diagnosis and staging of chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension.

Research News
Fortifying Wheat Flour with Vitamin D Prevents 10 Million New Cases of Deficiency

Fortifying Wheat Flour with Vitamin D Prevents 10 Million New Cases of Deficiency

Fortification and supplementation to target groups could prevent the incidence of new cases of Vitamin D deficiency.

Health Watch
Simple Technique of Regulating Blood Supply to Limbs Helps in Stroke Recovery

Simple Technique of Regulating Blood Supply to Limbs Helps in Stroke Recovery

Remote ischemic limb conditioning technique of using a blood pressure cuff to regulate blood supply to a limb, helps in stroke recovery by increasing the number of inflammatory monocytes.

Research News
Recent Outbreak of Dengue across Bangladesh

Recent Outbreak of Dengue across Bangladesh

Almost 12,000 dengue patients have been hospitalized across Bangladesh in just a week’s time.

Dengue News
Mutation of a Specific Gene Can Put you at a Higher Risk for Alcoholism

Mutation of a Specific Gene Can Put you at a Higher Risk for Alcoholism

Mutation of the COMT gene puts people at higher risk for alcoholism and drug addiction if they had a stressful life at a younger age.

Alcohol & Drug Abuse News