Word: anemia
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...decade starting at age 40, headaches, chest pains, fainting spells, hair loss and severe anemia plagued Eileen Binckley. During that period, she consulted an internist, a rheumatologist, a hematologist and a neurologist. All declared Binckley healthy. It wasn't until she was 50 that a therapist friend identified the problem: anorexia...
...from being a fact, the obesity epidemic is a potpourri of scientific, moral and ideological assumptions. One of these-that fat is bad and will eventually make you sick-ignores evidence that high BMI is associated with lower incidence of numerous diseases and syndromes, including some cancers, emphysema, anemia, bronchitis, osteoarthritis and hip fracture. It also skirts the evidence for fat, in many cases, being little more than a benign marker of an individual's genetic predisposition to carry it. According to GPs, there are many people who eat sensibly, exercise regularly and have excellent health readings-but have...
...this totally unprecedented aesthetic? When I look at the fashion-forward Europeans, all I see is disaster. Tight jeans on men make them look sterile; lack of muscle definition and visible bones both look like malnourishment—which comes with a whole package of exciting side effects, like anemia, bone loss, and decreased testosterone levels, according to the Mayo Clinic. A complete lack of body fat—combined with clothes designed to make hips look smaller—makes the ladies look either prepubescent or infertile, not to mention just as starved and malnourished as their male compatriots...
...modern doctor. If you’re lucky, you’ll live to be a hundred with perfect teeth and a six-minute mile.Yet such optimistic prognosis is not available to everyone.Take, for example, one-year-old Hassan. Admitted a week ago for malnutrition, pneumonia, and anemia, he is now naked, pale, and wide eyed; his frail ribcage is clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands...
...those genetic variations are immediately life threatening. In fact, most of them have no apparent effect. The variants are not like the mutations most of us learned about in school--alterations that cause entire genes or series of genes to malfunction and that result in diseases like sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. Instead the changes nutritional geneticists are looking for are more like normal variations in the correct spelling of a word--say, theatre or theater, depending on whether you speak the Queen's English or American. "We all have these variants in our genes," says Ray Rodriguez...