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Health Tip: Getting Full Too Quickly

(HealthDay News) -- If you find yourself only able to eat a few bites of food before you feel "full," don't brush it off as a new weight-loss strategy, the U.S. National Library of Medicine advises.

The NLM lists these common causes of "early satiety," which is feeling full too quickly:

  • Your stomach is emptying too slowly.

  • Irritable bowel syndrome.

  • A tumor in your stomach or abdomen.

  • Heartburn.

  • An obstruction in the opening of the stomach to the intestine.

Date Last Reviewed: 8/31/2009
Date Last Modified: 8/31/2009