Diseases obesity

There is no doubt that the eating patterns and physical activity of the adult have a direct effect on the prevalence of nontransmittable chronic illnesses. In recent decades, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer, hypertension, and diabetes, among others, has steadily increased, making these diseases the priority for health care systems in many countries, especially in developed countries. 

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The risk factors for vascular dementia are essentially the same as those for stroke and heart attack. They include high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell disease, obesity, smoking, alcohol use, depression, and high cholesterol levels. 

There are many excellent texts on nutrition. This chapter, therefore, focuses not on nutrition per se but on how biochemistry helps us understand well established and less well established aspects of nutrition and how such knowledge fits in with other subjects discussed in this text. There is now considerable medical and lay interest in what is meant by healthy and unhealthy diets. Nutrition has become a major issue in the medical sciences and in clinical practice. It is also of concern to politicians, particularly in the link between nutrition and Western diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer and neurological problems. In this chapter an attempt is made to provide a biochemical basis for discussion of nutrition and development of these conditions. To this end, biochemical explanations for nutritional advice and the recommendations from national bodies are provided. Similarly, explanations for the recommendations designed for different populations, different conditions and activities (physical and mental activity, the elderly, the young, during pregnancy and space flight) are discussed. Finally, the biochemistry of malnutrition, undemutrition and ovemutrition is discussed. 

Cardiac reactions (including ischemia, coronary artery vasospasm, and Ml) and noncardiac vasospasm-related reactions (such as hemorrhage and cerebrovascular accident [CVA]) occur rarely, particularly in patients with hypertension, diabetes, or a strong family history of coronary artery disease obese patients smokers. 

World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA). 2004. International Health Professional Poll Puts Heart Disease, Obesity and Cancer as Top Health Problems.Available at http //www.whpa. org/prO7 04.htm [Accessed Jime 9, 2004]. 

Until the advent of neuroleptic drugs, it was observed that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia lived normal life spans, unless subjected to the violent and unhealthy environments of state mental hospitals (Breg-gin, 1991c). Since the advent of neuroleptics, almost every patient in the Western world diagnosed with schizophrenia ends up being afflicted with a variety of neurological disorders induced by neuroleptics as well as the risk of many other serious disorders, such as stroke, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. 

Secondary hyperlipidaemias results from liver and biliary disease, obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes, diet, alcohol excess, renal disease (nephrotic syndrome) and drugs (including etretinate, HIV protease ir hibitors, thiazide diuretics, oral contraceptive steroids, glucorticosteroids, (3-adrenoceptor antagonists, ciclosporin). 

Studies in Europe are under way involving figs in controlled diets to test for specific health benefits in people with cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, or chronic inflammation. 

Deep-fat fried food such as hot chips, chicken, and fish are convenience foods in many countries. These products are high in fat and they have been implicated in studies relating fat consumption to certain diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease, obesity, and some forms of diabetes and cancer). 

Precautions Diets high in fats and oils cause heart disease, obesity, and possibly cancer. 

Considering these nutrition-related diseases, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer are the most important and life-threatening ones for all the population. 

The panoply of symptoms described above have all been described in cases of Cushing s disease. However, the full panoply is not found in all cases. Correct diagnosis requires judicious analysis of the symptoms. Thus, among patients with Cushing s disease, obesity is the most common symptom and is present in 88% of the patients however, only 38% have the typical abnormal fat distribution (truncal obesity) described above. Hypertension is found in 74% of the cases. 

It is known that their daily dietary intakes by carotenoid-rich vegetable and fruits to human body against the risks of these age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cataracts of an eye disease that involves the clouding (opacification) of the natural lens of the eye, age-related macular degeneration of macular degeneration that is age-related, various cancers and kidney failure (renal failure renal insufficiency) could have epidemiologically an inverse relationship [25, 26, 27, 28],... 

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