“
Go jewa ke ntlo” (she was eaten by the house) is a Northern Sotho metaphor for maternal death in childbirth. While the majority of South African women survive pregnancy, many feel alternately consumed and nourished by motherhood. Cooking, eating, feeding, being fed and becoming the mothers and children that we are exists on a symbiotic biocultural continuum. South Africans often explain this relationship to ourselves and others by way of alimentary sayings (such as the one above) and a plethora of foodie folk lore. Some of our traditional food proverbs and practices are supported by science. Others are erroneous (and occasionally actively injurious). Most are unproven but benign and earnestly adhered to.
Covid symptoms research may help solve other viruses
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Covid symptoms research may help solve other viruses
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New York, April 20 : Covid-19 is leading to research being initiated into many common viral infections that were previously ignored, lacked interest or funding, reports say.
Symptoms like a loss of smell, inflammation of heart, lungs, nerve damage and small blood clots in the lining of lungs are all not unique to Covid. Although small but a noticeable percentage of patients with other respiratory and viral infections suffer from these symptoms, the New York Times reported. Before the pandemic, research grants to study a loss of smell were hard to come by. It seemed like nobody cared, Danielle Reed, associate director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research group in Philadelphia, US, was quoted as saying. But now, there is an explosive growth of interest among funders , Reed said.
Has Covid-19 damaged your sense of smell? Smell training may help.
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For the many Covid-19 patients who have lost all or some of their sense of smell, doctors recommend an olfactory version of physical therapy called smell training. Writing for the
New York Times, Christina Caron talks with multiple experts to demystify the (surprisingly tedious) process.
What is smell training?
According to Caron, a large proportion of people who contract Covid-19 report losing their sense of smell entirely or in part or experiencing parosmia, a disorder that causes previously normal odors to develop a new, often unpleasant aroma. In fact, at least one meta-analysis, published in September 2020, found that up to 77% of Covid-19 patients report some form of smell loss, she writes.