Peptic ulcer self-care

Before the discovery of H. pylori, doctors often advised people with ulcers to eat a restricted diet and reduce the amount of stress in their lives. Now that food and stress have been eliminated as direct causes of ulcers, these factors are no longer of as much importance. However, while an ulcer is healing, it's still advisable to watch what you eat and to control stress. Acidic or spicy foods may increase ulcer pain. The same is true for stress. Stress may increase acid and slow digestion, allowing food and digestive acid to remain in your stomach and intestines for a longer period. If stress is severe, it may delay the healing of an ulcer.

Your doctor may also give you this advice:

• Don't smoke. Smoking may interfere with the protective lining of the stomach, making your stomach more susceptible to the development of an ulcer. Smoking also increases stomach acid.
• Limit or avoid alcohol. Excessive use of alcohol can irritate and erode the mucous lining in your stomach and intestines, causing inflammation and bleeding.
• Avoid nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). If you use pain relievers regularly, use acetaminophen (Tylenol, others).
• Control acid reflux. If you have an esophageal ulcer — usually associated with acid reflux — you can take several steps to help manage acid reflux. These include avoiding spicy and fatty foods, avoiding reclining after meals for at least three hours, raising the head of your bed and reducing your weight. Avoiding smoking, alcohol and NSAIDs also may help to control acid reflux.

Peptic ulcer treatment

Because many ulcers stem from H. pylori bacteria, doctors use a two-pronged approach to peptic ulcer treatment:

• Kill the bacteria.
• Reduce the level of acid in your digestive system to relieve pain and encourage healing.

Accomplishing these two goals requires the use of at least two, and sometimes three or four, of the following medications:

• Antibiotic medications. Doctors use combinations of antibiotics to treat H. pylori because one antibiotic alone isn't sufficient to kill the organism. For the treatment to work, it's essential that you follow your doctor's instructions precisely. Antibiotics commonly prescribed for treatment of H. pylori include amoxicillin (Amoxil), clarithromycin (Biaxin) and metronidazole (Flagyl). Some companies package a combination of two antibiotics together, with an acid suppressor or cytoprotective agent specifically for treatment of H. pylori infection. These combination treatments are sold under the names Prevpac and Helidac. You'll likely need to take antibiotics for two weeks, depending on their type and number. Other medications prescribed in conjunction with antibiotics generally are taken for a longer period.
• Acid blockers. Acid blockers — also called histamine (H-2) blockers — reduce the amount of hydrochloric acid released into your digestive tract, which relieves ulcer pain and encourages healing. Acid blockers work by keeping histamine from reaching histamine receptors. Histamine is a substance normally present in your body. When it reacts with histamine receptors, the receptors signal acid-secreting cells in your stomach to release hydrochloric acid. Available by prescription or over-the-counter (OTC), acid blockers include the medications ranitidine (Zantac), famotidine (Pepcid), cimetidine (Tagamet) and nizatidine (Axid).
• Antacids. Your doctor may include an antacid in your drug regimen. An antacid may be taken in addition to an acid blocker or in place of one. Instead of reducing acid secretion, antacids neutralize existing stomach acid and can provide rapid pain relief.
• Proton pump inhibitors. Another way to reduce stomach acid is to shut down the "pumps" within acid-secreting cells. Proton pump inhibitors reduce acid by blocking the action of these tiny pumps. These drugs include the prescription medications omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid), rabeprazole (Aciphex) and esomeprazole (Nexium). The drug pantoprozole (Protonix) can be taken orally or administered intravenously in the hospital. Proton pump inhibitors are frequently prescribed to promote the healing of peptic ulcers. If you are admitted to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer, taking intravenous proton pump inhibitors decreases the chance that bleeding will recur. Proton pump inhibitors also appear to inhibit H. pylori. However, long-term use of proton pump inhibitors, particularly at high doses, may increase your risk of hip fracture.
• Cytoprotective agents. In some cases, your doctor may prescribe these medications that help protect the tissues that line your stomach and small intestine. They include the prescription medications sucralfate (Carafate) and misoprostol (Cytotec). Another nonprescription cytoprotective agent is bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol). In addition to protecting the lining of your stomach and intestines, bismuth preparations appear to inhibit H. pylori activity.

If H. pylori isn't identified in your system, then it's likely that your ulcer is due to NSAIDs — which you should quit using, if possible — or acid reflux, which can cause esophageal ulcers. In both cases, your doctor will try to reduce acid levels — through use of acid blockers, antacids or proton pump inhibitors — and may also have you use cytoprotective drugs.

Ulcers that fail to heal
Peptic ulcers that don't heal with treatment are called refractory ulcers. There are many reasons why an ulcer may fail to heal. Not taking medications according to directions is one reason. Another is that some types of H. pylori are resistant to antibiotics. Other factors that can interfere with the healing process include regular use of tobacco, alcohol or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Sometimes the problem is accidental: People are unaware that a medication they're taking contains an NSAID.

In rare cases, refractory ulcers may be a result of:

• Extreme overproduction of stomach acid, such as occurs in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
• An infection other than H. pylori
• Stomach cancer
• Other digestive diseases, including Crohn's disease or cancer

Treatment for refractory ulcers generally involves eliminating factors that may interfere with healing, along with stronger doses of ulcer medications. Sometimes, additional medications may be included. Surgery to help heal an ulcer is necessary only when the ulcer doesn't respond to aggressive drug treatment.

Peptic ulcer complications

Left untreated, peptic ulcers can cause internal bleeding and can eat a hole through the wall of your stomach or small intestine, putting you at risk of serious infection of your abdominal cavity (peritonitis). Peptic ulcers can also produce scar tissue that can obstruct passage of food through the digestive tract, causing you to become full easily, to vomit and to lose weight.

Peptic ulcer screening and diagnosis

In order to detect an ulcer, your doctor may have you undergo the following diagnostic tests:

• Upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) X-ray. Your doctor may begin with this test, which outlines your esophagus, stomach and duodenum. During the X-ray, you swallow a white, metallic liquid (containing barium) that coats your digestive tract and makes an ulcer more visible. An upper GI X-ray can detect some ulcers, but not all.
• Endoscopy. This procedure may follow an upper GI X-ray if the X-ray suggests a possible ulcer, or your doctor may perform endoscopy first. In this more sensitive procedure, a long, narrow tube with an attached camera is threaded down your throat and esophagus into your stomach and duodenum. With this instrument, your doctor can view your upper digestive tract and identify an ulcer.

If your doctor detects an ulcer, he or she may remove small tissue samples (biopsy) near the ulcer. These samples are examined under a microscope to rule out cancer. A biopsy can also identify the presence of H. pylori in your stomach lining. Depending on where the ulcer is found, your doctor may recommend a repeat endoscopy after two to three months to confirm that the ulcer is healing.

Additional tests
In addition to a biopsy, these other tests can determine if the cause of your ulcer is H. pylori infection:

• Blood test. This test checks for the presence of H. pylori antibodies. A disadvantage of this test is that it sometimes can't differentiate between past exposure and current infection. After H. pylori bacteria have been eradicated, you may still have a positive result for many months.

• Breath test. This procedure uses a radioactive carbon atom to detect H. pylori. First, you blow into a small plastic bag, which is then sealed. Then, you drink a small glass of clear, tasteless liquid. The liquid contains radioactive carbon as part of a substance (urea) that will be broken down by H. pylori. Thirty minutes later, you blow into a second bag, which also is sealed. If you're infected with H. pylori, your second breath sample will contain the radioactive carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.

  The advantage of the breath test is that it can monitor the effectiveness of treatment used to eradicate H. pylori, detecting when the bacteria have been killed or eradicated. With the blood test, H. pylori antibodies may sometimes still be present a year or more after the infection is gone.

• Stool antigen test. This test checks for H. pylori in stool samples. It's useful both in helping to diagnose H. pylori infection and in monitoring the success of treatment.

Peptic ulcer when to seek medical advice

An ulcer isn't something that you should treat on your own, without a doctor's help. Over-the-counter antacids and acid blockers may relieve the gnawing pain, but the relief is short-lived. If you have signs or symptoms of an ulcer, see your doctor. With a doctor's help, you can find prompt relief of ulcer pain as well as a complete healing of the ulcer.

Peptic ulcer Causes

Depending on their location, peptic ulcers have different names:

• Gastric ulcer. This is a peptic ulcer that occurs in your stomach.
• Duodenal ulcer. This type of peptic ulcer develops in the first part of the small intestine (duodenum).
• Esophageal ulcer. An esophageal ulcer is usually located in the lower section of your esophagus. It's often associated with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

The culprit in most cases
Although stress and spicy foods were once thought to be the main causes of peptic ulcers, doctors now know that the cause of most ulcers is the corkscrew-shaped bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori).

H. pylori lives and multiplies within the mucous layer that covers and protects tissues that line the stomach and small intestine. Often, H. pylori causes no problems. But sometimes it can disrupt the mucous layer and inflame the lining of the stomach or duodenum, producing an ulcer. One reason may be that people who develop peptic ulcers already have damage to the lining of the stomach or small intestine, making it easier for bacteria to invade and inflame tissues.

H. pylori is a common gastrointestinal infection around the world. In the United States, one in five people younger than 30 and half the people older than 60 are infected. Although it's not clear exactly how H. pylori spreads, it may be transmitted from person to person by close contact, such as kissing. People may also contract H. pylori through food and water.

H. pylori is the most common, but not the only, cause of peptic ulcers. Besides H. pylori, other causes of peptic ulcers, or factors that may aggravate them, include:

• Regular use of pain relievers. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can irritate or inflame the lining of your stomach and small intestine. The medications are available both by prescription and over-the-counter. Nonprescription NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Aleve) and ketoprofen (Orudis KT). To help avoid digestive upset, take NSAIDs with meals.

  NSAIDs inhibit production of an enzyme (cyclooxygenase) that produces prostaglandins. These hormone-like substances help protect your stomach lining from chemical and physical injury. Without this protection, stomach acid can erode the lining, causing bleeding and ulcers.

• Smoking. Nicotine in tobacco increases the volume and concentration of stomach acid, increasing your risk of an ulcer. Smoking may also slow healing during ulcer treatment.
• Excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol can irritate and erode the mucous lining of your stomach and increases the amount of stomach acid that's produced. It's uncertain, however, whether this alone can progress into an ulcer or whether other contributing factors must be present, such as H. pylori bacteria or ulcer-causing medications, such as NSAIDs.
• Stress. Although stress per se isn't a cause of peptic ulcers, it's a contributing factor. Stress may aggravate symptoms of peptic ulcers and, in some cases, delay healing. You may undergo stress for a number of reasons — an emotionally disturbing circumstance or event, surgery, or a physical trauma, such as a burn or other severe injury.

Peptic ulcer Signs and symptoms

Burning pain is the most common peptic ulcer symptom. The pain is caused by the ulcer and is aggravated by stomach acid coming in contact with the ulcerated area. The pain typically may:

• Be felt anywhere from your navel to your breastbone
• Last from a few minutes to many hours
• Be worse when your stomach is empty
• Flare at night
• Often be temporarily relieved by eating certain foods that buffer stomach acid or by taking an acid-reducing medication
• Come and go for a few days or weeks

Less often, ulcers may cause severe signs or symptoms such as:

• The vomiting of blood — which may appear red or black
• Dark blood in stools or stools that are black or tarry
• Nausea or vomiting
• Unexplained weight loss
• Chest pain

Peptic ulcer Introduction

Too much stress, too much spicy food, and you may be headed for an ulcer — that was the way the thinking used to go.

Peptic ulcers are open sores that develop on the inside lining of your stomach, upper small intestine or esophagus. The most common symptom of a peptic ulcer is pain.

Not long ago, the common belief was that peptic ulcers were a result of lifestyle. Doctors now know that a bacterial infection or some medications — not stress or diet — cause most ulcers of the stomach and upper part of the small intestine (duodenum). Esophageal ulcers also may occur and are typically associated with the reflux of stomach acid.

Peptic ulcers are common, and oftentimes successful treatment of peptic ulcers takes just a few weeks.

FDA: Nexium, Prilosec OK for Heart

By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical News

Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD

Dec. 10, 2007 -- The FDA today confirmed that it sees no likely link between heart attacks or other heart risks and the long-term use of Prilosec and Nexium, which are drugs that treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

"We have completed our safety review ... and it is our assessment that the studies do not show a risk for heart attack or heart-related problems,"�Paul Seligman, MD, said in a press conference. Seligman is the associate director for safety policy and communication at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

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Over-70 Adults Get New Food Pyramid

Stress on Nutrient-Rich, High-Fiber Foods, Not Supplements

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Medical News

Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD

Dec. 20, 2007 -- A prominent nutrition group has updated its food pyramid for over-70 adults, stressing nutrient- and fiber-rich foods over supplements.

People tend to become less active and to eat less as they age. This makes them vulnerable to getting too few nutrients, note Tufts University nutrition expert Alice H. Lichtenstein, ScD, and colleagues.

Moreover, older adults may not be as Internet savvy as younger adults, making it hard for them to use the USDA's official, web-based "MyPyramid" food guide. So Lichtenstein's team has updated their 1999 "Modified Food Guide Pyramid" for older adults to create their new "Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults" in print form.

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Moderate Exercise Cuts Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

By Kathleen Doheny
Health Day Reporter

MONDAY, Dec. 17 (Health Day News) -- A brisk 30-minute walk most days of the week is enough to undo metabolic syndrome, a health condition that can lead to heart disease, diabetes and stroke, a new study suggests.

"What we found was a modest amount of moderate intensity exercise was very effective in improving metabolic syndrome risk," said study author Johanna L. Johnson, a clinical researcher at Duke University Medical Center's department of medicine.
At the start of the study, 41 percent of the 171 participants had metabolic syndrome; at the end, just 27 percent did. The study was published in the Dec. 15 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.

About one-quarter of all U.S. adults have metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors that can eventually set you up for more serious health problems. While some experts debate the validity of considering metabolic syndrome a disease unto itself, the risk factors are potentially dangerous. They include a large waist circumference; high blood pressure; high levels of triglycerides; low levels of good (HDL) cholesterol; and high blood sugar. If you have three or more of the five risk factors, you have metabolic syndrome.

Johnson and her colleagues looked at the effects of different amounts and intensities of exercise.

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Natural cure of Black Spots

*Make a paste with mehndi and oil and apply on the face
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*Grind dried basil leaf, neem and mint (100 gm each). Add some turmeric powder and rose water to make it in a paste form and apply it on the spots.
*Grind betel leaf and add a little coconut oil and apply it on the spots
*Soak a chappathi  in milk overnight . Make it into a paste and apply it on black heads. Repeat for several days.
*Make a paste of saffron and add some honey , apply it on the face to remove black spots.
*To remove black spots... apply a paste of turmeric and basil.
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Laxatives And Weight Loss

Laxatives are available in wide varieties in market and they are most famous products available in the market for weight loss. People-taking laxatives seems to be loosing weight because they reduce their caloric intake and food consumption. Laxatives makes large bowel empty and calories will be absorbed by small intestine. By taking laxatives body will loose fluid, which causes water retention. Laxatives remove water from the large bowl as well as food residue. Laxatives removes needed fluid from the body which leads to dehydration and dehydrations causes kidney damage, faint, weakness, etc, They also irritates intestinal. So before taking laxatives it's better to take suggestion of physician. Using laxatives is not the right way for losing weight.

Using the Laxatives is not the only ways to reduce the weight gained by calories and fat in the body. Laxatives are most often taken to treat constipation. Constipation is irregularity condition in digestive system. There are several types of laxatives available. Laxative abuse is potentially serious as they lead to intestinal paralysis. Bulk form laxatives are not digested but absorb liquid in the intestines and swell to form bulk mass. Weight loss is guarantee by using laxatives but there is maximum chance of side effects, which causes permanent damage of GT tract, and it also leads to the bones weakness.

In market these laxatives are sold as low calorie and bowel cleaning products. But in real they are low calorie products and low nutrient products. These laxatives cause effect on fertility process in women. The pregnant women should not take these laxatives. It is best use those products, which are safe and natural for weight loss than using the products, which are harmful to our health. Best ways to lose weight taking healthy diet plan and doing exercise regularly. We can also go for brisk walk daily for 30 minutes. We should warm our body before doing exercises. If we want use theses products then it's better to take suggestion of physician and know the dosage and correct usage as they effects the health. We should take right procedure for losing weight. People want to lose weight fastly and they follow the easiest but they will not know the side effect that occurs by them. There are different types of laxatives such as lubricant laxatives, saline laxatives, and stimulant laxatives. stimulant laxatives are harshest laxatives. Thus is not safe to use laxatives for weight loss as it causes severe side effects.

Weight Loss and Laxatives - Conclusion

Using laxatives is not a good way to lose weight. Most weight loss is usually fluid-loss and health dangers can be significant. In a nutshell, taking laxatives for weight control or weight loss purposes is neither good for fat-loss, nor good for health. Prolonged use leads to cramps, bloating, water retention and - when laxative-use stops - withdrawal symptoms.

Healthy diet

Diet is the key factor that affects your health. Having healthy diet is one of the most important things you can do help your life from health problems such as heart attack, blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol problems. We can find whether we are overweight or obese by body mass index (BMI). Health risk increases as the BMI increases.

Good nutrition food helps in having BMI in healthy range or either loose weight. Diet food should have small number of calories; it should contain fiber vegetables and fruits, foods prepared with less sodium or salt. Proteins are the essential part of your diet.

There are different kinds of fats such as saturated fats, which are found in food from animals. All kinds of fats have some amount of calories and need to be limited to prevent from overweight. By making changes in your eating habits, we can control blood pressure and also heart problems. Fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes are high in carbohydrates, rich in proteins and vitamins, minerals, low in fat. Cholesterol intake should be less than 300 milligrams per day. It is found in animal products, such as milk, meat, poultry etc.,. Maintain calcium content in the food as it necessary for bones to be strong. We should get minerals and vitamins from food but not from the supplements. Exercise and walking is also necessary for good health equally to the good diet. Excess alcohol consumption will lead to variety of health problems. Eat fish and nuts, which have healthy unsaturated fats. We should maintain balance between calories we take and calories burnt.

Total fat should be 30% of total calories we take daily. Carbohydrates should not be more than 300milligrams per day. Food should be free from caffeine and other food activities. Thus by taking healthy food we can prevent our body from obesity and overweight which further helps from health problems such as blood pressure, heart attack, cholesterol and also from depressions and tensions so that we can be always be fit and active. The easy and best way to achieve the healthy life is by taking health and diet food with diet plan. Metabolism of our body should not be low it should be high for good health. We can eat vegetables, bread, etc which are low in calories and rich in proteins. So following diet plan with healthy food keeps us from all health problems such as overweight and obesity.

Achieving Weight Loss

There are lots of people who are over weight think how to be healthier, How to look and feel better, no matter what the reason is successful weight loss and healthy weight management depends on sensible goals and expectations. If you set some sensible goals for yourself then there is a chance you are likely to meet them and have a better chance of keeping the weight off. In fact losing some percent of weight is the kind of goal and that can improve your healthy automatically. Most of the people who are over weight should lose their weight gradually for safe and healthy weight loss. you should not try to exceed a rate of two pounds per week. Sometime people with serious health problems associated with obesity may have some reasons for losing weight rapidly.

Successful weight loss and weight management should follow some factors. First you think what kind of food I am having then whether your lifestyle includes regular physical activities. The reason to ignore products and programs that promise quick and easy result, or that promise permanent results without permanent changes in your lifestyle. In fact some people would call it fraud and further the use of some products will not safe. Many people will be dieting because of different reasons to lose weight. Thought many people have different reasons that they want to lose weight because they want to lose weight and feel good inside themselves and gain confidence and improve their health so that they can prevent different diseases that are caused due to obesity in our body.

Deciding your purpose is just a huge step that is being made to follow a weight loss plan, which includes a proper exercise and healthy diet habits. With this approach you will definitely follow the entire route with great comfort and make wise decision throughout your life. To lose weight, people must burn more calories than they take in, a strategy that is made more difficult by sedentary jobs, elevators, cars and the easy availability of fast foods. You say a person who sits at a computer all day, takes the elevator to the snack machine a few times each day and drives to the pizza corner for dinner and may be few beers is a good candidate for weight problems. Unless and until these behaviors change all the diet drugs in the world wont make the person thin.

Overnight Weight Loss

Now a days lots of people around the world want to lose weight in a quick and rapid pace for that they use different plans to lose that extra weight. The extra weight will affect your overall life and put you in depression and puts you in several health risks. There will be a positive changes in the individual experience if the weight is loss. If u want to loss any weight then consult good doctor or a nice physician so that they will give a better idea how to loss your weight. There are some aspects that you need to change which include what to eat, seeing your body language, add fiber to our diet and don't drink any drinks which contain lot of fluid.

In order to loss your weight you have to set some targets and goals realistically and need to take right decision and stay focused on your task. You must also need to improve your body language by means of diet. You should exercise daily to get ride of the fat in your body otherwise put on some muscle mass it will help you to lose extra pound effectively. Fiber is a very good source of food it is something that is not digested and helps you to give an individual a feeling of full and let the fat get absorbed into the system and keeps the body healthy. You should always keep away from dried foods such as popcorn and crackers as they contain more fat in it.do not fry the food as it contain more fat item in it, therefore it is better to use grilled food as they contain less amount of fat.

Drinking lot of amount of water will help your body hydrated. You must drink water daily around six to eight glasses by doing this it will help your body from losing the fat that is contained in the body. You should remember that when ever you start any exercise see that is done daily without any failure. You must be positive about what are you doing and keep your self belief up and high and should not fall back in negative things you should learn what should be eaten and what should not been eaten. Find out how the unmated food cravings with healthy eating strategies that are more realistic than healthy diet recommendations. Before starting any exercise you should walk for about twenty minutes and after that take a break and stretch for a while after that start doing the exercise one by one taking sometime this will make you tire but it will boost your morals to go for more but you must not overdo it even thought you have a lot of energies inside you.

Negative Calorie Foods

Negative calorie foods are those which use more calories to digest in our body rather then they might have used normally. To say literally all foods are not negative calorie rather they a good in calorie content, it all depends upon the body how it reacts to the situation while the digestion process is being undertaken inside the abdomen of every individual. These foods make the body to work a lot and stress it to get the calories out of them, so the result is that we will be having a fat content which is very less and chances of reducing our weight less then during obesity.

There are many researches being done on this Negative calorie food concept, to mention here one Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D ., of the University of California , at San Francisco, he made a research by providing a vegetarian food consisting of fruits and vegetables to certain group of people who are suffering from heart disease, to his surprise he found the results that there is a weight loss of nearly 20 pounds without cutting calories or limiting serving sizes. These patients were nearly 40 years old, and another point to note here is that there is no exercise program for the above research subjects.

There are few list of Negative calorie food, to mention a few here are : asparagus, beet, broccoli, green cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery root, celery chicory, hot chili peppers, cucumber, dandelion, endive, garden cress, garlic, green beans, zucchini, apple, cranberries, grape fruit, lemon mangoes, orange, pineapple raspberries, strawberries, tangerine, lamb's lettuce, onion, papaya, radishes, spinach and turnip. A lot of research has been done to categorize that the above mentioned foods come under as Negative Calorie foods.

There are a lot of contradictions regards this concept, though some have done a lot of research and found out that they have some foods that are negative calorie foods many still believe that no such concept exists in this subject related to nutrition and calorie production inside our body. Some say that how can we have any such foods which really take a lot of calorie from our body in order to get themselves digested, if that happens then the individual who takes it must be falling as a prey very easily to many diseases since he will be loosing his energy like anything and will also be a person to decrease his resistance level.