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More and more people worry about getting a flabby stomach, because they spend most of their time sitting on a chair in an office, and often go binge-drinking to relieve stress. This is why many of them are trying to lose weight and get back in shape. However, sudden fasting or skipping meals to lose weight in a short period of time makes your stomach vulnerable to strong acids or other aggressive factors, so these dieters are more likely to be diagnosed with gastritis. To make matters worse, starvation may instigate temporal bulimic behaviour and the result can be detrimental. Although acute gastritis triggered by these unhealthy eating habits can be quickly cured in three or four days with adequate attention, a constant recurrence leads to chronic gastritis and the risk of gastric cancer becomes greater, too. Thus it is crucial to practise healthy eating habits

Another major cause of this sickness is people's hectic lives as there are always a lot of things that need to be taken care of or done. As a result, stress-induced neurogenic gastritis is becoming a greater concern every year. The stomach is susceptible to emotional or mood changes; accordingly, its activities are easily disturbed by anxiety, depression, stress, tension or other emotional stimuli, causing indigestion or displeasure coming from too much intestinal gas. Other common symptoms include bloating and pain below the sternum after eating. Mental stress, as such, not only undermines digestive functions but also acts as a catalyst for gastric acid secretion, resulting in indigestion.

Spicy food can be both a mood lifter and stress reliever and some may regularly indulge themselves in that biting taste. Yet few things are worse than a fiery flavour for a patient with gastritis. It is particularly self-destructive for workers who frequently skip their meals and drink too much. Once inflammation occurs around the gastric mucosa, abdominal tightness sets in, and nausea as well as vomiting soon follow. If aggravated, a sufferer can cough up blood or even have bloody stools because of bleeding from the mucosa. But the thing is, it is never easy to wean yourself off an addiction to spicy and salty food. Consequently, the possibility of getting gastritis soars and this continuous exposure to a pungent taste might eventually invite a mildly-symptomatic or asymptomatic disease like an acute gastritis, the victim unable to notice the attack.

Spicy food can be both a mood lifter and stress reliever and some may regularly indulge themselves in that biting taste. Yet few things are worse than a fiery flavour for a patient with gastritis. It is particularly self-destructive for workers who frequently skip their meals and drink too much. Once inflammation occurs around the gastric mucosa, abdominal tightness sets in, and nausea as well as vomiting soon follow. If aggravated, a sufferer can cough up blood or even have bloody stools because of bleeding from the mucosa. But the thing is, it is never easy to wean yourself off an addiction to spicy and salty food. Consequently, the possibility of getting gastritis soars and this continuous exposure to a pungent taste might eventually invite a mildly-symptomatic or asymptomatic disease like an acute gastritis, the victim unable to notice the attack.