Eating dates in moderation can contribute to many health benefits, such as protecting against damage to cells from free radicals, helping preventing a stroke, coronary heart disease and the development of colon, prostate, breast, endometrial, lung, and pancreatic cancers.
The Psychological Evaluation. To determine whether patients are mentally fit for bariatric surgery, all bariatric surgery patients undergo a psychological evaluation. The mental health professional should be familiar with bariatric surgery procedures, in order to quickly spot any potential problems, including drug and alcohol abuse.
The Psychopathic Personality Inventory and Its Factors The PPI was developed to avoid contaminating the measurement of psychopathic personality features with assessment of the overtly antisocial behaviors that psy-chopaths are notorious for exhibiting (Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996). A growing body of literature suggests that the PPI provides a valid assessment of psychopa-thy. Total PPI scores show substantial relations with global ratings of Cleckley psychopathy (Lilienfeld &