March 29, 2008
People With Eating Disorders
People with bulimia tend to suffer from an unnatural preoccupation with their own body, and as with anorexic patients they have a fear of gaining weight. Individuals who suffer with bulimia will devour huge quantities of food in an attempt to reduce stress, and help them deal with feelings of anxiety. Binge eating disorder involves bouts of overeating high calorie foods on a regular basis, but unlike bulimia sufferers, they don t make themselves vomit. People with this disorder not surprisingly, are usually overweight.
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March 18, 2008
Acid Reflux Info
An acid reflux disease diet is used to control chronic acid reflux or GERD. Gastro esophageal Reflux disease or Acid reflux, heartburn, otherwise known as is a simple, yet sometimes quite painful disease. Usually this pain goes away after taking an antacid. However, in some people have chronic acid reflux, and these people need long-term medication or need to control the acid reflux by using an acid reflux disease diet. This saliva reduces the acid levels in the stomach and prevents heartburn. It has been recommended that patients chew gum while on the acid reflux disease diet.
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January 6, 2008
Normal Cholesterol
The body has a system to speed up or reduce cholesterol production in accordance with dietary intake. There are two types of cholesterol. Low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein. LDL is considered bad cholesterol and HDL is good cholesterol. When the levels of LDL become high in blood, the LDL cholesterol gets deposited in blood vessel walls. Arteries become thickened or hardened (arteriosclerosis) and block the free passage of blood. This increases blood pressure and leads to cardio vascular diseases including heart attack. Another version of LDL is Lp(a). Lp(a) is a variation of LDL, which increase the risk of arteriosclerosis (thickening of blood vessels walls by deposition of fat).
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