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  Bulimia nervosa

  Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as bulimia, is an eating disorder. It is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Urology
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  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Bladder Cancer
   

  Urinary incontinence

  Urinary incontinence is the involuntary excretion of urine from one's body. Stress incontinence is essentially due to pelvic floor muscle weakness. It is loss of small amounts of urine with coughing, ... > more
• Hair Loss
  Men's Health
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  Baldness treatments

  Proven baldness treatments continue to be an area of research that receives a large amount of funding. More than half of men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 50. It is easier to prevent ... > more
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  Physical therapy

  Physical therapy (also known as physiotherapy) is an allied health profession concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability through physical means. Physiotherapy ... > more
• Triglycerides
  Cholesterol
  Nutrition
  Obesity
  Diet and Weight Loss
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  Unsaturated fat

  An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is one or more double bond in the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if ... > more
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  Calorie restriction

  Calorie restriction or Caloric restriction (CR) is the practice of limiting dietary energy intake in the hope that it will improve health and retard aging. In human subjects, CR has been shown to ... > more
• Triglycerides
  Cholesterol
  Nutrition
  Obesity
  Vegetarian
  Diet and Weight Loss
   

  Saturated fat

  Saturated fat is fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids. Diets high in saturated fat correlate in some studies with an increased incidence of atherosclerosis and ... > more
• Eating Disorder Research
  Eating Disorders
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  Obesity
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  Anorexia nervosa

  Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by voluntary starvation and exercise stress. Anorexia nervosa is a complex disease, involving psychological, sociological and physiological ... > more
• Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
  Nutrition
  Cholesterol
  Diabetes
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Atkins Nutritional Approach

  The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known of the low-carbohydrate diets. The Atkins Diet represents a radical departure ... > more
• Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
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  Cholesterol
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  Low-carbohydrate diet

  Low-carbohydrate diets or low carb diets are nutritional programs that advocate restricted carbohydrate consumption, based on research that ties carbohydrate consumption with increased blood insulin ... > more

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