Various lifestyle factors can increase your risk for digestive diseases. Smoking cigarettes, drinking too much alcohol, eating too much dietary fat, getting inadequate dietary fiber or fluids, having stress, and lacking exercise can all contribute to digestive disease. Other risk factors include contaminated food and water, unsafe sex, and having a family incidence of hepatitis B.
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Digestive Diseases
Digestive diseases, also known as gastrointestinal diseases, are disorders that affect your esophagus, stomach and small and large intestines. The symptoms of digestive diseases vary widely depending on which part of your digestiv...
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