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  • Anorexia: When Thin Hurts  By : Andrew Beckers
    Anorexia Nervosa Disorder is an eating disorder where someone refuses to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height, especially less than 85% of a normal weight.  The primary symptoms is that the person seems to be overly concerned about their weight and exercise level.  There is a distorted perspective of one's body weight or shape.  No matter how thin she may be, she can only see a fat person in the mirror. Of course none of these symptoms are ever communicated directly to other, yet if one pries deeper the allusions are obvious.
  • What Does Your Endocrine System Do?  By : Marshall Swerman
    A hormone is a chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. These hormones are the messengers of the endocrine system, influencing such things as metabolic activity, reproduction, mood, growth and body development. It’s interesting that the word hormone is derived from the Greek "hormao" meaning “I set in motion” or “I stir up”. This is exactly what hormones do.
  • Yeast Infection Medication Can Worsen Your Medical Condition  By : Linda D. Allen
    Candidiasis, meaning yeast infection, comes from candida fungi. In healthy people, yeast microbes are restrained by beneficial organisms called probiotics. Thus Candida does not grow excessively or have the opportunity to do any damage. However, when Candida begins excessive multiplication, the external symptoms appear. It is Candida albicans that engenders approx. four out of five of all yeast infections, the other one out of five coming from Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis and other types of fungi.
  • Disease In Male Breasts  By : K Bakhru
    Enlarged breasts in a male may be one of the developmental anomalies of the breast like polymastia, in which a man has more than two breasts, or amastia, where there is absolutely no breast or there has been no development of the breast at all, etc. However the condition of enlarged male breasts i.e. gynecomastia may be entirely familial i.e. the male breasts in all the members of a family may be enlarged.

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