Common disorders that cause anorexia include dementia, severe depression, anorexia nervosa, dementia and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Some medications, antidepressants for example, can have anorexia as a side effect. First of all it is necessary to know why you eat so little and have chosen to starve. Think about how you feel nowadays and how [...]
People have many misconceptions about anorexia. Due to poor understanding of the phenomenon or due to various popular myths surrounding eating disorders, most people assimilate denatured ideas regarding anorexia and the persons it affects. Probably the most common misconception describes anorexia as an incurable, terrifying disease. Although anorexia can cause both physical and psychological harm, [...]
Perhaps one of the most dangerous eating disorders is anorexia nervosa, which is when a person usually has a distorted image of their body. Sufferers of the psychiatric diagnosis are well below the average body weight and often voluntarily take various weight control measures. For example, those who are anorexic often take diet pills, purposely [...]
The main assault of this disease is that it focuses on self starvation. Since the body needs food as a basic means for survival, the effects of this disease are numerous to say the least. Because the body is not getting enough nutrition, it is forced to slow down in order to compensate for this. [...]
Anorexia Nervosa is a very serious eating disorder which can be potentially life threatening. It’s main characteristic is self starvation and excessive weight loss. Anorexia Nervosa has four main symptoms and they are as follows: A strong resistance to maintaining a person’s body weight at or above what would be considered a normal minimum body [...]
A sense of low self-esteem can be caused through inadequate nurturing as a result of emotional, physical or sexual abuse as a child. Abuse is when a person uses their power or position to force another person to perform in order to meet their needs. Low Self-Esteem produces a Game of Control Those with low [...]
The meanings of naturism and nudism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practicing, advocating and defending social nudity in private and public spaces. Several other terms (“social nudity” as well as “public nudity”, and recently: “clothes-free”) have been proposed as a replacement of these terms, but none has yet found [...]
Beleive it or not, brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible treatment for male impotence. Investigations began in Brazil after reports that men who were bitten by the highly venomous brazilian wandering spider experienced priapism, or prolonged erections. Two years later, after a complete study, it was dicovered [...]
Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). Cancer may affect people at all [...]
Hair loss in humans might not be irreversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice. It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced. But a University of Pennsylvania, US, team, writing in the journal Nature, says hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single [...]
