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The term eating disorder covers a range of unique mental illnesses that involve disordered eating behavior. The one issue all eating disorders have in common- besides a lack of control over eating habits- is that they can progress and cause serious, even permanent damage to your mental and physical health. But even though they are serious illnesses, eating disorders are treatable. Eating disorders may be caused by several factors. These include genetics, brain biology, personality traits, and cultural ideals. Any two people with the same eating disorder can have somewhat different symptoms and experiences. It’s also possible for someone to move between diagnoses if their symptoms change – there is often a lot of overlap between different eating disorders.

The term obese describes a person who's very overweight, with a lot of body fat. It has increasingly become a common problem because for many people modern living involves eating excessive amounts of cheap high-calorie food and spending a lot of time sitting down at desks, on sofas, or in cars. Over the last few decades, obesity has become a considerable health problem. It’s now considered to be an epidemic in the United States.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO): “Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

To begin, Mitochondria are tiny structures located within nearly all cells of the body. They are the parts of the cell that are primarily responsible for creating energy. They do this by generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a “fuel” driving all of the body’s functions. Moreover, mitochondria are described as the “powerhouse” of the cell.

The nutrition world is rife with misinformation, leading to public confusion, mistrust of health professionals, and poor dietary choices. Since nutrition science is constantly changing, most people have a warped view of what constitutes a healthy diet. People are often drawn to believing a myth because of a desire to see results quickly.

There's a good reason why every doctor's appointment starts with a blood pressure check. Most people are unaware that they have it because it is largely symptom-less. But what is Blood Pressure?

Many people have heard of psoriasis but don’t know much more about it than it’s a skin condition. Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disease which means the immune system sends a continuous signal to speed up the skin cell growth cycle resulting in a faster turnover of skin cells every few days when it would normally take about one month. This leaves a pile-up of dead skin cells on the surface of the epidermis and throughout the dermis. Psoriasis usually appears as red or pink plaques of raised, thick, scaly skin. However, it can also appear as small flat bumps or large thick plaques.

There are so many things to think about when you have a child. One of them is the blood from your baby’s umbilical cord. Cord blood banking is the process of collecting cord blood and extracting and cryogenically freezing its stem cells and other cells of the immune system for potential future medical use. In Europe and other parts of the world, cord blood banking is more often referred to as stem cell banking.

A sarcoma is a rare kind of cancer. Sarcomas grow in connective tissue -- cells that connect or support other kinds of tissue in your body. These tumours are most common in the bones, muscles, tendons, cartilage, nerves, fat, and blood vessels of your arms and legs, but they can also happen in other areas of your body. Although there are more than 50 types of sarcoma, they can be grouped into two main kinds: soft tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma, or osteosarcoma. It is made up of many “subtypes” because it can arise from a variety of tissue structures. Because these tissues are found everywhere on the body, Sarcomas can arise anywhere.

Haemophilia is a bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process. Normally, when you cut yourself, substances in your blood known as clotting factors mix with blood cells called platelets to make your blood sticky and form a clot. This makes the bleeding stop eventually. People with haemophilia do not have as many clotting factors as they should have in their blood. This means they bleed for longer than usual. They experience prolonged bleeding or oozing following an injury, surgery, or having a tooth pulled.