Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction, inappropriate eating habits or rituals, obsession with having a thin figure, and an irrational fear of weight gain, as well as a distorted body self-perception. It typically involves excessive weight loss and is ...
Intermittent fasting (IF) describes diets that cycle between a period of fasting and non-fasting. In some contexts, fasting allows the consumption of a limited amount of low-calorie beverages such as coffee or tea. Intermittent fasting and caloric restriction are forms of dietary restriction (DR), ...
Saint Anne-Marie Javouhey (November 10, 1779 – July 15, 1851) was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as the Liberator of the Slaves in the New World, and as the mother of the town of Mana, French Guiana. When ...
Saint Genevieve (Sainte Geneviève) (Nanterre, c. 419/422 – Paris 502/512), in Latin Sancta Genovefa, is the patron saint of Paris in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition. Her feast is kept on 3 January. She was born in Nanterre and moved to Paris after encountering Germanus of Auxerre and ...
Saint Fulcran (died 13 February 1006) was a French saint. He was bishop of Lodève. Fulcran came of a distinguished family, consecrated himself at an early age to the service of the Church, became a priest, and from his youth led a pure and holy life. When in 949 Theoderich, Bishop of Lodève, died, ...
Fulbert of Chartres (French: Fulbert de Chartres; 952-970 –10 April 1028) was the bishop of the Cathedral of Chartres from 1006 till 1028. He was a teacher at the Cathedral school there, he was responsible for the advancement of the celebration of the Nativity of the Virgin feast day, and he was ...
Saint Jeanne Delanoue (Saint Joan of the Cross) (June 18, 1666 – August 17, 1736) is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church from France and founder of the Congregation of St. Anne of Providence. Throughout much of her childhood and early life she was described as very selfish, thinking only of ...
Saint Germaine Cousin (Germana Cousin, Germaine of Pibrac, Germana) (1579–1601) is a French saint. She was born in 1579 of humble parents at Pibrac, a village about ten miles from Toulouse. She is said to have practised many austerities as reparation for the sacrileges perpetrated by heretics in ...
