... effective ways to prevent it on a daily basis. Family education and social status are simple but aggressive factors of obesity. Accumulation of fat starts since childhood because parents believed that the more "chubby" a kid were the healthier and full of life he or she would ... 2 diabetes is one of the consequences of Obesity. It means that your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high, and your body slows or stops making insulin, a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. It usually develops during our adulthood, and ... not end here, beyond the h...

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... symptoms of anorexia nervosa, also known as "the starving disease" , are dramatic loss of weight (up to twenty to twenty-five percent of normal body weight), an intense fear of becoming obese, a disturbance of body image, a refusal to maintain body weight over a minimal normal weight for age and height and no known physical illness accounting for weight loss (DSM - III - R, American Psychiatric Association ... general, such as, irritability, obsession with food, spaciness, difficulty concentrating, and hallucinations. Anorexia is seen most in female patients; only five to ten percent of...

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... take the steps needed to make the proper steps towards recovery they need to find the right motivation. Those afflicted with this disorder usually suffer from low self-esteem, distorted body image, and depression. Those need to be the focus when trying to get someone to face the fact that they have a problem. Getting them to see that what they see ... is not a negative, but can be a positive they can focus on in treatment. Finding the reason to turn everything around is the best motivation a person can have. Even if it starts out as motivation to make the change for someone else, eventu...

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