- Alcohol And Its Effects on Body
Alcohol affects people in many different ways. Some experience intoxication with just one drink, others are able to consume 3 to 4 drinks before they begin to feel its effects. Regular consumption of alcohol has numerous negative side effects. It is a toxin and the abnormalities it can cause are many.
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- Asthma
Asthma is caused by spasms in the muscles surrounding the bronchi (small airways in the lungs), which constrict the outward passage of stale air. Asthma is a lung disease that can be life threatening. It is a chronic or long-term disease. It may affect any age group, though it is more common in children and older people.
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- Anaemia
Anemia can broadly be defined as meaning low in hemoglobin. Hemoglobin, which is found in red blood cells, is a protein that transports oxygen to the tissues and carries carbon dioxide away to the lungs. So, Anemia is a condition in which the blood cannot carry enough oxygen, either because there is a low number of red blood cells or because each red blood cell is able to carry less oxygen than normal.
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- Allergy
An allergy is an abnormal response by the body’s immune system to a particular substance. Our immune system or our defense mechanism identifies foreign bodies and mobilizes the body’s white blood cells to fight these substances. In some cases the immune system identifies a non toxic substance as a foreign body whereby the white blood cells react to do more harm to the body than the substance.
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- Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is clinically known as dementia. Most people suffer some degree of brain atrophy (wasting or shrinkage) as they get older, usually accompanied by a slowing of mental processes. Frequently the atrophy is so severe that the person suffers from senile dementia. Characteristically, this change takes place in some persons over the age of 70 sometimes much later.
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- Acid reflux
Acid Reflux occurs when the tube that you use to intake the food from the throat to stomach is not strong enough to handle the acid. The food taken in by you is digested by the stomach with the help of an acid produced and stored by it. The stomach walls are built strong enough to store that acid without causing damage.
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- Acne
We all have been embarrassed sometime or the other in our lives due to body acne. They look pretty ungainly! Body acne, just like facial acne, is a genetic condition. If either of your parents have had body acne, chances are you're likely to struggle with it yourself. Studies show us that most people with facial acne have some amount of body acne as well. Body acne develops in a similar way to facial acne. However, the skin on the body can be thicker than that on the face and often has larger pores, making for more severe acne lesions at times.
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