Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disorders (103 contents)
Fat intake is essential for the body to function properly, but excessive fat in the diet can lead to numerous health problems. In this article, we will discuss the various side effects associated...
Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease that also affects children. It destroys the cells that produce insulin, which is necessary to regulate blood sugar levels. Symptoms of type I diabetes in a...
Losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight is not only a matter of aesthetics, but above all of health. A healthy body weight contributes to lowering the risk of many chronic diseases, improves...
Bariatric surgery, a way of reducing obesity, also helps with type 2 diabetes. Researchers have the evidence to prove it.
Researchers report: walking at a brisk pace can significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, adding that the benefits of a faster pace are noticeable no matter how long you walk. The experts...
Sleep is the body's time of regeneration, its rest. Lack or deficiency of sleep affects many aspects of life, leading to nervousness and irritability. The right conditions around you affect the...
Gestational diabetes is a disease that is increasingly complicating the course of pregnancy. A number of changes in the pregnant woman's body promote the onset of diabetes in previously apparently...
Cholesterol is one of the basic building blocks of cell membranes and steroid hormones. It has a huge role in foetal life for brain development, among other things. Healthy babies are born with a...
Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease affecting almost 500 million people. Numerous complications develop during its course. These include accelerated atherosclerosis, which leads to: heart attacks,...
Type 2 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in humans. The problem with this disease is that it may be asymptomatic for a very long time, while at the same time various complications...
Mental disorders and illnesses are occurring with increasing frequency and, as a result, it is quite obvious that medics are paying increasing attention to their possible consequences. The body and...
Dysautonomia is an abnormality of the autonomic nervous system. It can occur in the course of various neurodegenerative diseases, as well as in people with diabetes or coeliac disease. What symptoms...
Gluten intolerance and allergy are often diagnosed after a long time. This is extremely agonising for the patient who, not knowing what is causing the unpleasant discomfort, seeks advice from...
There is a growing body of research suggesting that walnuts protect against heart disease. In a recent experiment, researchers analysed on a group of elderly people whether adding walnuts to their...
Depression and diabetes are two theoretically completely different entities that ultimately very often go hand in hand. There are indeed many interrelationships linking them, and it is well known,...
Psoriasis is a skin disease, diabetes on the other hand is an entity associated with abnormal pancreatic function and blood glucose disturbances. In theory, these are completely separate conditions,...
Gilbert's syndrome is probably one of the least dangerous entities in which jaundice can occur. The disease is genetic and is characterised by the occurrence of hyperbilirubinaemia in certain...
Nutrigenomics has been developing more and more over the last few years. Could this modern branch of science have a key impact on the way we eat?
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder whose consequences can affect many organs and organs, hence the importance of early diagnosis and recognition. Today, type 1 diabetes is increasingly being...
Many times parents of young patients ask paediatricians how to convince them to reach for healthy snacks. After all, neither doctors nor parents need to be convinced that it is often far from easy to...
Providing children with adequate levels of vitamins and micronutrients is a difficult challenge. The best solution is to give children as many vegetables, fruit, fish and lean meat as possible. But...
The skin is the largest organ of the human body and performs a number of very important functions for the body. Due to the pathological changes that can be observed on its surface, it is also of...