Candida - an yeast-like fungal infection often affecting the
female genital area.
Hypertension - persistently elevated arterial blood pressure. It is the most wide-spread public health problem in `first-world` nations. Emphasis on health-benefiting changes to living patterns has given diet a very substantial function for both the primary prevention and management of hypertension.
Bariatric Surgery - weight-loss surgery to seal off a portion of the stomach (to reduce intake capacity) and/or the intestines (to reduce the calories absorbed), so as to help patients with extreme obesity lose weight. Bariatric surgery is conducted on people who have a body mass index (BMI) above 40. Surgery might be a viable alternative for those with a BMI anywhere between 35 & 40, and who are afflicted by health problems such as heart disease or type 2 diabetes. Also known as `gastric stapling surgery` or `stomach stapling surgery`, `morbid obesity surgery` or `obesity surgery`, `stomach reduction surgery` and `weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity`.
Plants synthesize and store carbohydrates as their chief source of energy. The glucose manufactured in the foliage is used as the foundation to manufacture more complex classes of carbohydrates. The grouping of carbohydrates is determined by saccharides, which are the essential structural components of their living cells. The main monosaccharides (simple sugars) that are present in food nutrients are glucose (also called dextrose) and fructose. Three standard disaccharides (two sugars linked together) are sucrose, maltose, and lactose. Polysaccharides (several sugars linked together) that play a role in nutrition include starch (found in plant seeds, fruits, tubers, and roots), dextrin (formed by enzyme action on starch), glycogen (glucose that is converted for storage), and cellulose (part of the cell walls of all plant cells).
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) - a set of surveys that include data from medical history to monitor trends in health status and health care delivery, measurements, biochemical reviews, physical health tests and population group-wise data on dietary patterns within the U.S.A. The NHANES is carried out by the U.S. DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) roughly every 5 years.
Binge Eating - an eating disorder characterized by eating abnormally large amounts of food and feeling that what is being eaten and how much is being eaten is out of the control of the person doing the eating, without vomiting or laxative or diuretic abuse.