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Eating Disorders Effects
Eating disorders have very many effects on the sufferers. The effects can be divided into mental, spiritual and physical.
The mental effects can be associated with different levels of anxiety (from moderate to very severe), depression, and difficulty to focus on tasks, low span of attention, lethargy or impulsivity and distortion of thoughts.
One of the very specific effects of eating disorders is a distorted body image when people see a wrong picture of themselves and others. This mental problem is called "broken eye syndrome".
This is when the sufferer sees in the mirror a much fatter reflection of themselves then they actually are. And when they look at other people they judge them according to the person's weight and body looks. Other people can also look bigger to them then the person really is.
Spiritual effects of eating disorders can be associated with loss of self-identity or insight, inability to maintain healthy relationship with people and loss of coping strategies.
Eating disorders become a way suffers see themselves. When you ask a person:" Please, describe yourself. Who you are? And what do you do?", the sufferer describes her/his eating disorder and how they feel about food and other things associated with food or their eating behaviors. It means that the eating disorder replaces their insight completely and they become incapable of relating to the things other then food and eating.
Also anorexics –bulimics loose their ability to be close or intimate with people. They can't connect to another human being on a spiritual level because their spirit (soul) is taken over by food and distorted feelings. Many sufferers even feel disgusted in relation to opposite sex or some other people.
Some of them even say:"My best friend is always here with me." By "my best friend" they mean their eating disorder.
Coping strategies with everyday stress disappear or significantly diminish and get replaced with food and abnormal feelings about food and eating. For example, a bulimic response to stress, boredom or other uncomfortable feelings would be an increase in the binging-purging behavior cycles.
Anorexics will starve themselves and exercise more then usual in relation to the same feelings.
Eating disorders effects on a body could be differentiated by organs being affected. Kidney damage often occurs especially in long standing cases. The heart can slow its rhythm or become irregular and can even stop resulting in death in severe cases of anorexia-bulimia.
Teeth get eroded. Skin becomes dry, fragile and old looking. Bones loose their density resulting in broken bones easily. Immune system deteriorates making a person become susceptible to many infections and other illnesses.
In conclusion, eating disorders effects are harmful and can be lethal. To avoid the worst, one should start doing something immediately. To do find the right action you can go to http://www.mom-please-help.com
About the Author
Dr Irina Webster MD is the Director of Women Health Issues Program. She is a recognised authority in the eating disorders area. She is an author of many books and a public speaker. To know more about how to overcome bulimia go to http://www.mom-please-help.com
When I add effects to one shape in Adobe Illustrator, it adds same effects to each shape I draw after...why?
Just in case that wasn't clear because of the character limit. I drew a square and distorted it however I was going to distort it. Now whenever I draw more shapes in my drawing, Illustrator is automatically applying the distortion effects to those new squares when I don't want them. How do get it to stop doing this? I want one distorted square, and another distorted in a different way but can't do it.
I was unable to reproduce your issue, but if you click the Clear appearance button located on the appearance palette, and also make sure the Style: at the top is Default Gradient Style it may fix your issue.
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The Deleterious Effects of Asbestos Inhalation and Ingestion
The inhalation of asbestos fibers can be deadly depending upon the level and duration of exposure. One interesting article that explores the oxidation of biomolecules is it related to exposure is called, "Iron mobilization from asbestos by chelators and ascorbic acid" by Loren G. Lund and Ann E. Aust - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics - Volume 278, Issue 1, April 1990, Pages 60-64. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract - The ability of chelators and ascorbic acid to mobilize iron from crocidolite, amosite, medium- and short-fiber chrysotile, and tremolite was investigated. Ferrozine, a strong Fe(II) chelator, mobilized Fe(II) from crocidolite (6.6 nmol/mg asbestos/h) and amosite (0.4 nmol/mg/h) in 50 m NaCl, pH 7.5. Inclusion of ascorbate increased these rates to 11.4 and 4.9 nmol/mg/h, respectively.
Ferrozine mobilized Fe(II) from medium-fiber chrysotile (0.6 nmol/mg/h) only in the presence of ascorbate. Citrate and ADP mobilized iron (ferrous and/or ferric) from crocidolite at rates of 4.2 and 0.3 nmol/mg/h, respectively, which increased to 4.8 and 1.0 nmol/mg/h in the presence of ascorbate. Since ascorbate alone mobilized iron from crocidolite (0.5 nmol/mg/h), the increase appeared to result from additional chelation by ascorbate. Citrate also mobilized iron from amosite (1.4 nmol/mg/h) and medium-fiber chrysotile (1.6 nmol/mg/ h). Mobilization of iron from asbestos appeared to be a function not only of the chelator, but also of the surface area, crystalline structure, and iron content of the asbestos. These results suggest that iron can be mobilized from asbestos in the cell by low-molecular-weight chelators. If this occurs, it may have deleterious effects since this could result in deregulation of normal iron metabolism by proteins within the cell resulting in iron-catalyzed oxidation of biomolecules."
Another interesting study is called, "Subpleural fat pads in patients exposed to asbestos: distinction from non-calcified pleural plaques." By E N Sargent, W D Boswell, Jr, P W Ralls and A Markovitz - August 1984 Radiology, 152, 273-277. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract - Thirty patients with known asbestos dust exposure were studied because of uncertainty as to whether or not the pleural changes observed on the radiographs were due to plaques or subpleural fat. The CT scans confirmed that the changes were due to subpleural fat in 14 cases (48%). Characteristic subpleural fat shadows on radiographs and CT scans are described, and the importance of differentiating fat from plaques for medico-legal reasons is emphasized."
Another interesting study is called, "Interactions of chrysotile and crocidolite asbestos with red blood cell membranes. Chrysotile binds to sialic acid." By Brody AR, George G, Hill LH. - Lab Invest. 1983 Oct;49(4):468-75. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract - Chrysotile and crocidolite are commonly used forms of asbestos. Hemolysis has been widely used as a test of membrane injury, and it has been shown previously that chrysotile causes rapid breakdown of red blood cells (RBCs), whereas crocidolite is only weakly hemolytic. A reasonable hypothesis set forth to explain the cytotoxic effects of chrysotile maintains that positively charged chrysotile fibers bind to negatively charged sialic acid residues on RBC membranes causing clustering of membrane proteins and increased cell permeability to Na and K ions. Our studies presented here provide two lines of evidence in direct support of this hypothesis. (a) Morphologic--Ultrastructural techniques showed that both chrysotile and crocidolite asbestos bind to and distort more than 85% of RBCs treated for 15 minutes. The distorting effects of chrysotile, but not crocidolite, were almost totally ablated by pretreating the cells with neuraminidase. In addition, gold-conjugated wheat germ agglutinin was used to label the distribution of sialic acid groups on RBC membranes. Pretreatment of the RBCs with chrysotile, but not crocidolite, reduced the number of gold-conjugated wheat germ agglutinin-labeled sites to less than 30% of the control level. (b) Biochemical--The thiobarbituric acid assay was used to determine the percentage of sialic acid that remained with the cell pellet after neuraminidase and/or asbestos treatment. Asbestos treatment alone caused no release of sialic acid from the cells. Neuraminidase treatment for 3.5 hours removed more than 80% of the sialic acid from cell surfaces. Chrysotile, but not crocidolite, asbestos prevented neuraminidase-mediated removal of sialic acid from RBCs. In addition, x-ray energy spectrometry of freeze-dried cells showed that RBCs distorted by chrysotile, but not by crocidolite, exhibited significant alterations in intracellular Na:K ratios. The morphologic and biochemical data strongly support the hypothesis that chrysotile asbestos binds to sialic acid groups on RBC membranes. Consequently, the sialic acid residues are redistributed on the surfaces of distorted cells which then are unable to maintain a normal Na:K balance with the surrounding medium."
If you found any of these excerpts interesting, please read the studies in their entirety. We all owe a great debt to these researchers for their important work.
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