Alcohol has become a normal and accepted part of life. However, the amount of alcohol you can drink in a day without risking your health is less than you would think. Often drinkers pack their drinking into a few sessions, usually on a Friday or Saturday night. But this way of drinking could not only harm their health but also risk their personal safety and that of others, and impact on relationships with family, friends and employers.

Ardi Rizal, a two year-old toddler from Indonesia has become something of a celebrity after a video appeared on the Internet of him smoking and his parents seeming to be unconcerned with his deadly habit. Aldi was given his first cigarettes by none other than his father when he was just 18 months old. Mohammad of Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia, said: “I’m not worried about his health — he looks healthy. He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t let him smoke. He’s addicted.”

Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 400 described species. All Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi. The best known species of the genus is Cordyceps sinensis, first recorded as yartsa gunbu in Tibet in the 15th Century. It is known as yartsa gumba in Nepal. The Latin etymology describes cord as club, ceps as head, and sinensis as Chinese. Cordyceps sinensis, known in English commonly as caterpillar fungus is considered a medicinal mushroom in oriental medicines, such as Traditional Chinese Medicines and Traditional Tibetan medicine.

Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control or for the treatment of obesity. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates (e.g. bread, pasta) are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats (e.g., meat, soy products) and often other foods low in carbohydrates (e.g., green leafy vegetables).