Posts tagged Causes
What are the Causes of High Blood Pressure?
Aug 30th
As a first step, let’s talk about your heart. Your heart is an organ that is mostly muscle tissue. It is a pump. In very simple terms its job is to receive incoming blood from the body that is low in oxygen and pump it to the lungs.As it passes through the lungs the blood [...]
Anorexia Symptoms & Causes ? is That Fat Person in the Mirror Really You
Aug 18th
How many parents fear the word “diet” if brought up in a subject by their child? How many parents who see their child dieting when already in a perfectly healthy condition becomes greatly concerned because they know where it can lead. Anorexia is not a rare condition therefore making it all the more frightening because [...]
Symptoms and Causes of Juvenile Diabetes
Aug 14th
Juvenile diabetes mellitus is now more commonly called Type 1 diabetes. It is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood glucose levels due to a deficiency of insulin secretion in the pancreas. Juvenile Diabetes is believed to be an autoimmune disorder. There is also a strong hereditary component to juvenile diabetes. Researchers believe [...]
Bulimia ? Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Aug 7th
Bulimia – Bulimia involves a destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. Following an episode of out-of-control binge eating, people with bulimia take drastic steps to purge themselves of the extra calories. In order to avoid weight gain they vomit, exercise, fast, or take laxatives. Symptoms of Bulimia A physical exam may reveal signs of [...]
What are some causes of anorexia nervosa?
Aug 4th
One of my childhood friends was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa a couple months ago. She was in counseling, and now she’s in a treatment facility. I was just wondering what some causes of anorexia are. She wasn’t overweight before, and she’s always been on the slim side. If it helps, she’s 19 and was in [...]
Signs & Symptoms, Causes and Treatment of Celiac Disease
Jul 16th
Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate a protein called gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in products we use every day, [...]
Celiac Disease ? Causes of Celiac Disease
Jul 12th
Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate a protein called gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in products we use every day, such as [...]
Celiac Disease ? Causes, Symptoms and Diagnosis
Jul 8th
Celiac sprue is a result of an immune reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat or related grains and present in many foods that we eat. Celiac sprue causes impaired absorption and digestion of nutrients through the small intestine. In Celiac disease the lining of the small intestine is damaged in response to [...]
Anorexia Nervosa – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Jul 7th
Anorexia nervosa is one type of eating disorder. Anorexia does not harm everybody the same way. For example, evidence suggests that the results of the disease in adolescents may differ from those in adults. It usually starts in the teenage years. Anorexia is more than just a problem with food. Most people with anorexia are [...]
Bulimia Nervosa Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
Jul 2nd
Bulimia Nervosa is best considered as three separate illnesses that share the essential features described above. They will be discussed below under three different headings; Simple, Anorexic, and Multi-impulsive Bulimia Nervosa. Binge/purge episodes can be severe, sometimes involving rapid and out of control feeding that can stop when the sufferers “are interrupted by another person” [...]