Health Science: Your Guide To Healthy Living

This is a new series on The Grist Mill to promote health consciousness and disease awareness among its readers. Here you will find information on an array of conditions that are not reported elsewhere.

Eating Syndrome: Those who are afflicted with this illness have a strong urge to eat whenever they are hungry. When they sit down to have a meal, they tend to consume their favorite food more than the ones they don’t like. When they chew food, their lower jaw continuously moves down and up. It is alarming to note that after having a sumptuous meal, they stop feeling hungry.

This is a biological syndrome, affecting 85% of the world population. The remaining 15% are spared because they do not have full access to food.

The complications arising from this malady are: loss of appetite, indigestion, stomach pain, heartburn, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, ulcer, gastritis, insomnia, obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high blood cholesterol, gallbladder disease, heart disease, joint pain, muscle pain, headache, depression, suicidal thoughts etc.

As of now, there is no treatment available for this illness, and 100% of the patients succumb to this disease in the end.

Deusophobia: This is a psychological disorder induced by the immediate environment—in most of the cases, parents. The sufferers have an unreasonable fear of any of the various imaginary supernatural entities commonly referred to as God. As a result, they are found placating their respective objects of fear with various activities ranging from silent prayers to loud invocations.

80% of the world’s population suffers from this disease in various degrees of severity.

The consequences are lack of empathy towards fellow human beings and heightened sense of well-being, which makes the sufferer complacent about other problems, increasing the risk of disasters.

In extreme cases, the sufferer stops thinking on his own and seeks wisdom from obscure books written thousands of years ago by our ancestors who had limited knowledge about everything compared to the present. Everyone interprets the books in a different manner, and many people are ready to kill other human beings, following their unique interpretations.

This is such a widespread disease that people who fear common entities form strong support groups to continue their fearsome way of life. There appears to be no remedy in sight, at least not in the near future.

Sleepomania: This disorder closely resembles death. Although superficially it looks as if the afflicted person is lying with his eyes closed, this is an insidious malady, which renders the patient almost unconscious due to lack of sensation and inactivity of voluntary muscles.

Most people in the world suffer from this disease. They spend half their lives in this debilitating state. Scientists are not able to find any cause or cure for this disease, and to this date are befuddled by its mysterious nature.

You might be aware of its feel-good effects. Therefore, I will state only the terrible ones. Sleepomania cuts your already short life by half. It also slows down your metabolism, causes laziness, muscle loss, fatigue, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, depression, suicidal thoughts, murderous thoughts, other criminal thoughts etc etc.

Just like the patients of Eating Syndrome and Deusophobia, all 100% of Sleepomania patients too succumb to it in the end.

So before you die, do celebrate each day of each year with all the resources of your mind and body. I wish you all a very happy and eventful New Year.

For more articles on healthy living, go to mayoclinic.com
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