What you need to know about kidney disease. If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or a family history of kidney problems, you are at risk for kidney disease. Kidney disease is serious, but if you catch it early, you can slow it down or stop it. Ask your doctor to check your kidneys.
They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula. The Romans called the area of Sicily and the foot of Italy, Magna Graecia (Latin, Great Greece), since it was so densely inhabited by the Greeks.The ancient geographers differed on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and Calabria â Strabo being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions.outhern Italy or Mezzogiorno (. [ËmÉddzoËdÊorno] , literally midday) is the traditional term for the southern regions of Italy, encompassing the southern section of the continental Italian Peninsula and the island of Sicily.
Siesta is also common in Southern Italy (there called riposo), where museums, churches and shops close during midday so that proprietors can go home for a long lunch and perhaps a snooze during the dayâs hottest hours.he main factors explaining the geographical distribution of the modern siesta are high temperatures and heavy intake of food at the midday meal. Combined, these two factors contribute to the feeling of post-lunch drowsiness.