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Integumentary System

Burns: Overview and Risk Factors

Burn injuries are among the leading causes of accidental death. Every year, more than 1 million people in the United States suffer burn injuries, and approximately 50,000 people require hospitalization. Hospital stays may be long–term and may involve multiple surgical procedures. Serious burns...
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Diabetes and Thyroid Diseases

Diabetes Mellitus: Overview and Risk Factors

The term diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases that result in higher than normal amounts of sugar (glucose) in the bloodstream. Diabetes occurs as a result of deficiency or insufficient action of insulin, a hormone that helps glucose to enter cells. In type 1 diabetes, the...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Gallstones: Overview and Risk Factors

Gallstones are small, hard stones form in the gallbladder. They occur in up to 20 percent of women and 8 percent of men worldwide. Physicians use the term “cholelithiasis” to refer to the condition of having gallstones.

Most stones are composed of cholesterol and are associated with...
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Psychiatric Conditions

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders: Overview and Risk Factors

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are common and serious eating disorders. Up to 3 percent of American women suffer from an eating disorder, and up to 20 percent of college-aged women engage in abnormal eating behaviors. Anorexia nervosa is...
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Renal and Genitourinary

Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Kidney Disease: Overview and Risk Factors

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is also known as kidney failure or renal insufficiency, is an exceedingly common disorder among older adults. Normally, the kidneys filter the blood, excrete toxins and waste, and maintain electrolyte...
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Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease

Fibromyalgia: Symptoms and Risk Factors

Fibromyalgia is a common but poorly understood syndrome that affects muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and results in significant pain throughout the body. Although the cause of the disorder remains unclear, some studies suggest that many cases begin after a trauma or illness. The condition may be...
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Respiratory

Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic Fibrosis: Overview and Risk Factors

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary disease that affects many parts of the body. The condition requires extensive treatment, and the average age of survival, while improving, is currently just 35 years.

The disease is caused by a...
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Oncology

Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid Cancer: Overview and Risk Factors

Thyroid cancer is fairly uncommon, accounting for less than 1 percent of all cancers. However, it has appeared more often during the past half-century, possibly the result of radiation therapy to the head and neck used to treat childhood...
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by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.