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One in 10 People Frequently Experience Abdominal Pain When They Eat Meals:
Around 11% of the global population (13% of women and 9% of men) frequently experience abdominal pain when they eat meals, according to a survey on over 50,000 people. The research is being presented for the first time today at UEG Week Virtual 2021.[1]
Pain associated with eating appears to be most common in young people aged 18 to 28, with 15% affected, the research found.
Those who experienced frequent abdominal meal-related pain were also more likely to suffer from bloating, a swollen tummy, feeling too full after eating or feeling full up too quickly, constipation and diarrhoea. The same group also had more severe psychological distress and somatic symptoms (that were not gastrointestinal).
A total of 36% of the people with frequent meal-related pain reported suffered from anxiety compared with 25% in the occasional symptoms group and 18 % in those who never experienced meal-related pain. Those with frequent attacks also reported higher rates of depression (35%) compared to 24% in the occasional symptom group and 17% in the group that never had meal-related pain.
Based on the Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology study, the findings were a result of surveying 54,127 people across 26 countries online.
[...] Esther Colomier, study author and a joint PhD researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, explained, “The take home message from this study is that people who experience meal-related abdominal pain more frequently experience other gastrointestinal symptoms and more regularly fulfil criteria for disorders of the gut brain interactions (DGBIs, formerly known as functional gut disorders), including common conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), bloating and abdominal distension.”
“They also have a higher burden of psychological and somatic symptoms, such as back pain or shortness of breath, which are associated with major distress and functioning problems. These symptoms cause distress and disruption in daily life”, she added.
Journal Reference:
Ami D. Sperber, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Douglas A. Drossman, et al. Worldwide Prevalence and Burden of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Results of Rome Foundation Global Study - PubMed, Gastroenterology (DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.04.014)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @08:08AM (1 child)
Veggies are cheaper than mac and cheese. Your parents were simply lazy fools.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @08:04PM
Aldi has the cheapest groceries near me. 750 calories of generic mac'n'cheese: $0.39. 3200 calories of pasta: $1.25. 1200 calories of knock-off cheerios: $1.29. 4500 calories of Ramen: $2.55. Head of lettuce: 54 calories, $1.39. Large zucchini: 52 calories, $0.85. 3 apples: 218 calories, $1.75. 1 pound of strawberries: 144 calories, $2.75. 1 pound of carrots: 186 calories, $1.06. Those are today's prices.
So if you're trying to meet a kid's dietary energy needs on a poverty budget, cheap processed garbage is 10 times as cost effective as produce. And you have to use the gas to get to the grocery store less often, because the processed stuff can sit in a cabinet until hell freezes over. You just need to get milk at a gas station from time to time.
But thanks for thinking that every person feeding their kids processed food instead of produce is bad at math.