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Now more than ever, health practitioners are concentrating on the cross-reaction between food and medicine. There are specific types of food that can interfere with current medications. The Harvard Health Letter came out with a list of how the two affect each other. Now people are paying closer attention to their diets based on certain foods that can cause a drug interaction, which can either make medications stronger or weaker, or have an entirely different effect.
Every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. -- Children's book author Wendelin Van Draanen (1965- )
The mainstream publishing industry has popularized the stereotype that “self-published” books are inferior to “traditional” ones because the author does not receive an advance and the services provided are less professional. The reality is that the Big Four publishers attained their enormous market share by, at least initially, relying on author subsidies. When advances were paid, they were typically loans that had to be repaid if a book failed to sell a volume of books that would cover the advance.
