LiveScience.com - Here’s a possible future diet tip: Move to a mountaintop.
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AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday went to war against childhood obesity, meeting with US lawmakers to prepare the battle plans.
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AFP - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle — too much junk food and couch-potato living — is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame.
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theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic
variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become
obese.
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puberty in boys, new research indicates.
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AFP - Mexico’s rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed Vitamin T, has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.
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may have found a new way to trick the body into burning more fat.
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AP - Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she’s a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
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for obese people, involves re-routing the path that food takes, including
shrinking the size of the stomach. But the procedure has a number of
risks, including the possibility of post-surgical infection, blood clots
or developing gallstones.
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being overweight will kill you, a new Australian study finds that
overweight adults over the age of 70 are less likely to die over a 10-year
period than their normal-weight peers.
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Reuters - People with high blood pressure who want to drop some pounds may want to choose a low-carb diet, a new study shows.
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AP - First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting to get off-track before the family’s pediatrician gave her a wake-up call and warned her to watch it.
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AFP - Overweight septuagenarians are less likely to die within 10 years than people of normal weight in the same age group, an Australian study said Thursday.
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people shed as many pounds as a low-fat diet plus the weight-loss drug
orlistat does, and the low-carb plan may be better at helping lower blood
pressure, researchers report.
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developing a common and virulent form of kidney cancer, a new study
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Fake versions of GlaxoSmithKline’s over-the-counter diet pill were contaminated with dangerously high levels of a prescription weight loss ingredient, U.S. officials warned on Saturday.
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are, the more likely you are to have a stroke, a new study reports.
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