What is loss of weight ?
1) In the
context of health or physical fitness, loss weight is simply reduction of the total body-mass, due to a
mean loss of fluid, body fat, adipose tissue, namely bone mineral deposits,
muscle, tendon and other connective tissue.
Unintentional weight loss occurs in many diseases and conditions, including some very serious diseases such as cancer, AIDS and a variety of other diseases.
Infections such as HIV may alter metabolism, leading to weight loss.
Hormonal disruptions, such as an overactive thyroid may also exhibit as weight loss.
Causes of unintentional weight loss: -
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2) Weight loss as a symptom is any loss of weight that you cannot explain, or that you did not plan or work for through increased diet control and exercise. Weight loss as a symptom can be caused by diseases affecting almost any part of the body, including ongoing infections, AIDS, cancers, depression, painful mouth sores, missing teeth, chronic liver disease, kidney disease, respiratory disease, thyroid disease, heart disease, and chronic diarrhea or other digestive disorders. It can also be caused by loss of appetite due to dementia and by certain eating disorders such as anorexia nervous or bulimia as well as malnutrition.
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3) There are many possible causes of unexplained weight loss, including undiagnosed celiac disease and thyroid disorders. Potential causes of unexplained weight loss include:
It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying
disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived
overweight or obese state.
Loss of Weight Unintentionally: -
Loss of Weight Unintentionally: -
Unintentional weight loss occurs in many diseases and conditions, including some very serious diseases such as cancer, AIDS and a variety of other diseases.
Infections such as HIV may alter metabolism, leading to weight loss.
Hormonal disruptions, such as an overactive thyroid may also exhibit as weight loss.
Causes of unintentional weight loss: -
2) Weight loss as a symptom is any loss of weight that you cannot explain, or that you did not plan or work for through increased diet control and exercise. Weight loss as a symptom can be caused by diseases affecting almost any part of the body, including ongoing infections, AIDS, cancers, depression, painful mouth sores, missing teeth, chronic liver disease, kidney disease, respiratory disease, thyroid disease, heart disease, and chronic diarrhea or other digestive disorders. It can also be caused by loss of appetite due to dementia and by certain eating disorders such as anorexia nervous or bulimia as well as malnutrition.
- Read more at http://www.localhealth.com
3) There are many possible causes of unexplained weight loss, including undiagnosed celiac disease and thyroid disorders. Potential causes of unexplained weight loss include:
- Addison's disease
- Cancer
- Celiac disease
- COPD
- Crohn's disease
- Dementia
- Depression (major depression)
- Diabetes
- Heart failure
- HIV/AIDS
- Hypercalcemia
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
- Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)
- Parkinson's disease
- Peptic ulcer
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcerative colitis
3) We all know that the vast majority of people who lose weight,
regain it. And while we know that nobody who loses that weight actually
wants to put it back on, somehow we’ve become really good at it! Some
of us have spent a lifetime cycling between the fit and fat versions of
us. We even have the small, medium, land industrial sections in our
wardrobe. What a miserable and frustrating cycle that is. And I’m not
talking about minor weight fluctuations here, I’m talking about a range
of 10-50 kgs (22-110lbs) or more. We get on and off the weight-loss
roller coaster for a bunch of reasons but here’s what twenty five years
of working with people in this area has taught me. My top five
observations anyway…
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4) Causes of abnormal weight loss
7) Although there is more than one definition of
wasting, nutrition experts at Tufts use the word to describe patients
who unintentionally lose five percent of their body weight in
a period of six months. In addition to weight loss, patients with
wasting can experience changes in body tissue, specifically a
loss of muscle (body mass) and an increase in fat. Because wasting
can be a sign of progression of the disease, it’s a red
flag for clinicians. All HIV-positive patients, including those
on anti-retroviral therapy, can develop wasting. A patient’s
appearance is not always a reliable indication of wasting;
There are many causes of abnormal weight loss including:
- Loss of appetite and conditions that prevent food consumption, e.g. dysphagia, painful mouth sores, newly applied orthodontic appliances, or loss of teeth.
- Persistent vomiting, e.g. pyloric stenosis, hiatus hernia.
- Malabsorption, e.g. coeliac disease, chronic pancreatitis, Crohn's disease, gastrointestinal infection, gastrointestinal fistulas, carcinoid, intestinal hypermotility, hepatobiliary disease, food intolerance.
- Medication, especially polypharmacy in the elderly.
- Endocrine: diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, Addison's disease, gut hormone tumours (e.g. VIPoma).
- Malignancy: lymphoma, leukaemia, carcinoma, sarcoma.
- Systemic disease, e.g. heart failure, chronic respiratory disease, chronic renal failure, liver failure, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Acute infection.
- Chronic infections and infestations, e.g. tuberculosis, HIV (one in ten in one study), parasitic infections.
- Drug abuse, heavy smoking.
- Malnutrition, social isolation.
- Psychological: stressful life events, depression, anorexia nervosa, psychoses, manipulative behaviour, food phobias.
5) Almost everyone reaches a weight loss plateau at some point in their
fitness lives. The reason is that the human body works hard to keep
energy intake and output in balance. In other words, your body does not
like to lose weight (not a revelation, huh?). After your initial weight
loss, your progress will slow down and eventually stop even though your
exercise and food intake is consistent. The bottom line is that the
very efforts you make to burn more calories may eventually slow it down.
- Read more at http://exercise.about.com
6) What you eat certainly contributes to your weight, but how much you eat
may be even more of a factor. Increased portion size is contributing to
America’s growing waistline. In fact, women consume more than 335 more
calories per day than they did in 1971, and men, 168 more.
- Read more at http://www.everydayhealth.com
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