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  • Hair Loss - What Happens

    06/17/08, Healthwise

    What happens in hair loss depends on its cause.

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  • Do Women Need to Be More Careful with Their Oral Health?

    01/01/03, Academy of General Dentistry

    Women's oral health depends on their different stages of life. For many women, these changes are directly related to surges in sex hormone levels, such as in puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, lactation and menopause. Women are also more likely to be

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  • Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    You see their photos everywhere: gaunt models strutting the latest in fashion, skinny socialites dining in trendy restaurants, svelte young actresses partying till dawn at the newest club. No wonder American women seem obsessed with their weight. B

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  • Going Too Far

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Nearly everyone has seen the images: an impossibly thin young girl, obsessively toying with food but never eating it, the details of her skeleton clearly visible through her dry flesh; or the young woman with bulimia, compulsively stuffing herself w

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  • Anorexia Nervosa

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    The word anorexia means loss of appetite, but this name is misleading. Anorectics—95 percent of whom are women—often have a normal appetite but because of an abnormal fear of being fat and a distorted body image, they're convinced that they're obese

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  • Anorexia - Who's at Risk?

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Anorexia is most likely to begin sometime between adolescence and the early 20s, but it can appear in children under the age of 10 or in women as old as 70. Although the disorder receives a great deal of publicity, it's relatively rare. For example,

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  • Anorexia - Why It Happens

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Anorexia and eating disorders are unhealthy responses to stress, painful feelings, and other problems. While the specific cause is unknown, the condition seems to stem from a combination of psychological, biological, familial, and cultural factors.

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