Issues of different effects of carbonated soft drinks to human health have been circulated and analyzed in both scientific and non-scientific approaches. However, there is few publications discussing the specific effect of carbonation on human health and, more often than not, studies have largely concentrated on the effect of sugar or calorie content in carbonated beverages in affecting our hea…
Therapeutic index, a drug safety parameter, is comparation between the dose at which 50% animals are dead (LD50) and the dose at which 50% animals exhibit the specified effect (ED50). Inflammation was a basic process in various diseases and Dewa leaf {Gynura pseudochina (Lour.) DC} was one of the herbal plants which has been proved as an anti-inflammatory. This study was conducted in order to k…
Artificial sweeteners are food addictives which do not have nutrition value and are usually added to give a sweet taste to food or drinks. The use of artificial with the progress of food and drink productions. However, the dangerrous effects of their exessive use are not widely understood because of the lack of information given to the consumers. There are two types of sweeteners, (i) nutritive…