In order to continue our life, we need to eat. But for some people, having such overweight problem can cause trouble for both mentally and physically. Some people who started exaggerated diet may feel a complex problem to their eating habit, especially to women which is more likely affected.

There are many kind of eating disorders, there are:

1. Anorexia Nervosa

This is indeed a mental disorder that commonly happen in girls. These girls has a special mental defense to think about having heaps of food so to avoid eating. A girl who is anorexic usually has some signs: being too thin, excessive fear of gaining weight, thinking of being so fat that actually she’s too thin, and physically they have some menstruation problem.

2. Bulimia Nervosa

This is really the most weirdest type of having some weight reduced. Where people who are bulimic eat tons of food and throw it up intentionally by inserting some fingers to the throat to vomit. Bulimia nervosa or can be also called just Bulimia, are mostly found in girls who have problem with their weight. Also this Bulimia is unhealthy and it inflicts some damage to the esophagus such as acid reflux.

3. Binge eating

This is contrary to the Anorexia, because the stress induces to the sufferers of this habit to eat more and more thus this habit could lead to the obesity. Binge eating is just also one of the mental disorder which makes these people to eat excessively even when they feel no hunger. Some people who have this habit will likely to feel embarrassed, but they really can not resist to continue on eating

If you have any of these problem, then it is the time for you to contact your doctor to get better solution and proper diet. The only good thing for you is to consult your problem right away, better than doing some reckless thing that may harm your body.

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If you just watched “Due Date” you found something that might put you in such of a curiosity: medical marijuana to treat glaucoma. What is glaucoma? And how should marijuana taken to treat such? Keep reading!

Glaucoma is the damage of the optical nerve with the increasing of the eyeball pressure (IOP = Intra Ocular Pressure) as the result of it. There are two types of glaucoma: open and closed angle type. Apparently, glaucoma is the number one cause of the blindness cause in Unites States, and number two in Indonesia. Open angle or chronic glaucoma is the most found type of glaucoma among the patients, thus it progressively cause the blindness. In 1970, a research found that marijuana can decrease the IOP those of glaucoma patients. Eventually, NEI (National Eye Institute) continued this research in 1978, created derivatives of marijuana into oral administration and showed some significant result of the decreasing of IOP.

But, since the using of marijuana is still illegal so it is not suggested that any chronic glaucoma patient to consume it as the sole treatment. Obviously, there are many legal treatments from drug administration to the eye surgeries. However, the side effects of marijuana are more dangerous than the main effect to the eye. So if you have a glaucoma, never hope that your doctor would prescribe some marijuana!

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Such prohibition of drinking alcohol for people under 21 is pretty reasonable. In fact, alcohol has caused many health problems for adult, moreover for underaged children, this could be fatal since alcohol badly affect the growth and the development of children. Do you want to know? I encourage you to read this article!

In many developed countries like USA, alcoholism in children related to bad example set by their own parents that like to consume alcohol much. Also this may be triggered by some family problem which put the children into depression so to set the children to start drinking alcohol.

Alcohol consumption during the period of growing and developing can harm many organs such as brain, nerve, liver, and heart. There are many health problem that you may find for such alcoholism in children:

1. Declining achievement

Alcohol kills more brain cells than you ever think, this could be the worst case if your kid become an alcoholism. He or she may not have enough attention to make for his or her achievement at class

2. Physical imbalance

Alcohol has been proven to block the inhibition process in the brain, so this may make the kid to become physically imbalance and easily to fall, as this is more often found in drunken adults who just had much alcohol.

3. Mood swing

Yes, alcohol can cause mental problem. Alcoholic children would easily to have mood swing as they easily get sad or excessively happy in a very short time. Yet, this may also affect their social life to their friend as they may act differently from the kid at his or her age.

What you have to do is not to set some example by drinking some alcohol in front of your kid. Stop it or your kid would follow you! Try to spend more time with your kids than having alcohol to solve any problem that you have.

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When I opened my newspaper this morning, I was a bit surprised with the news of inhalant abuse that happened in 4 years old boy. He has been inhaling gasoline since he was 2 years old. I think you ever saw this kind of inhalant abuse on street children. Do you want to know how exactly inhalant abuse works? Do follow this article!

Inhalant abuse can be categorize as addictive because it makes the people to do it again and again. There are many substances that could inflict inhalant abuse: glue, gasoline, hair spray, and ink. As these substances have fume aroma, it makes the people who inhale these to have focused concentration and sometimes hallucination on stronger substances.

Having this inhalant abuse excessively will sometimes cause sudden sniffing death, pneumonia, cardiac arrest, and poisoning.

Withdrawal symptoms of inhalant abuse are:
1. Confusing
2. Emotional disturbances
3. Motor disorder

If you have something that may has fume aroma like gasoline, make sure you close it tightly and put it aside from the your children. Do not let your children sniff any hair spray, ink, or any other substances that may cause inhalant abuse.

This may happen to your kid, if your kid is already on inhalant abuse, make sure to bring him or her to the drug rehabilitation center to have medication against his or her addiction to the inhalant abuse.

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Acetaminophen or known as Paracetamol mostly can be bought without prescription. This kind of drug is very useful for small to medium pain such as headache, and to relieve fever. Because of its effectiveness, Acetaminophen probably the most often used drug and also the side effects are well known and safe to be consumed by everyone.

Acetaminophen chemistry formula

Many years ago, Fenacetin widely used by people like Acetaminophen. Due to the toxic effects to the kidney, Fenacetin was pulled out from the market. Acetaminophen is the derivatives of Fenacetin, but Acetaminophen is considered safer than Fenacetin.

Acetaminophen in many free prescription drugs

There are many free prescription drugs that contain Acetaminophen for headache, fever, flu reliever, and many. But prolong used of Acetaminophen is not good for your body, because FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is now claiming that Acetaminophen can cause toxicity to the liver and cause drug induced hepatitis.

If you are often to consume Acetaminophen, you should stop and contact your doctor to consult about your pain problem to have other kind of drug which is also safe for your liver.

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Alcoholism or so called alcohol dependency is long ago been known. Alcohol is something that most people never miss, almost every people drink it, and the number of alcoholism is still raising due to the some mental problem that some people have. Mostly, alcoholism occurs when someone feels into depression state, so they chose alcohol to keep their mind calm. Knowing that alcohol is the only way to solve their problems, this seems to create withdrawal symptom that bring them up to keep drinking more and more until they got into alcoholism state.

Depression can make some people to choose alcohol to solve their problems

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The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy will likely to cause miscarriage even the death of the fetus in the womb. Beside of lethal effect, the sustainable consumption of the alcohol will cause congenital defects to the fetus, this is called as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy will cause either fetal death or FASD

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Everybody needs to sleep. Our body needs to relax in order to create form then break something. Sleep indeed is our primary need, because during sleep our body creates energy so we can get up and work by the next day. Sometimes, everyone can fall into a sleep deprivation state. How come? And what the effects to our body? How to overcome it? Want to know? Read this article carefully and there might be some tips for you instead of getting some sleeping pills.

Sleep deprivation could cause longer nap during the day

Our body has a good regulation to manage sleep, there is so called a biological clock set in our brain. This biological clock regulated by a hormone produced in our brain: Melatonin. A sleep deprivation can disturb the work of this hormone. Most of the causes of sleep deprivation is our mental status that leads to stress or depression, and snoring.

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Most people do consume alcohol. The number of alcohol abuse in America reaches 14 million, and about 1 from  13 men are alcoholism, this number taken from National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Alcohol almost affects all organs in human body, the chronic use of alcohol includes: pancreatitis, coronary heart disease, and liver disease.

Alcoholism can cause serious diseases to human body

Osteoporosis is the condition of low bone density because of multiple factors. One of the most serious cause is alcoholism. As we know we need abundant calcium for our body metabolism. If the the calcium decreases, our body may dig the source of calcium from the bone. Alcoholism can cause the decreasing of calcium in our body, so it tries to balance the level of calcium through the work of hormone by digging some from the bone.

Sudden broken bone in osteoporosis patient

Osteoporosis mostly found in elder people, but because of alcoholism or alcohol abuse, the process of osteoporosis can be faster more than you can imagine. Osteoporosis can also cause the sudden break down of the bone. If you are an alcoholism you should check your bone density to suspect any osteoporosis process in your bone.

Bone density check up

Love your body and stop the alcoholism from now on. You can always start to stop by contacting any drug rehabilitation in your place.

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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) will weaken our body defense system. It destroys one of our white blood cells: Lymphocyte type CD4+. When our body immune system is totally failed and compromised this condition is called as AIDS (Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Some of HIV tested positive patients never  realize that they already infected until the AIDS manifestation occurs about 3-10 years after the infection, as you know IV-drug-abuse takes the first rank of the transmission of the HIV. IV drug users who involved should consider to test their blood for HIV, because when they fall into AIDS, it is so difficult to treat the multiple infections that manifest.

1. Oral Thrush

This infection occurs at oral cavity happened in AIDS patients. Oral thrush is caused by fungus: Candida albicans. Oral thrush can cause the loss of taste sensation on tongue.

Oral thrush on AIDS patient

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