The number of fat cells in your body remains constant throughout your adult life, a new study has found. This may mean that people who got fat during read more »
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"We have in our schools and communities a perfect storm that will continue to feed the childhood obesity epidemic until we adopt policies that impro read more »
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Looking for that perfect diet? Researchers have bad news -- all diets have just about the same result, and none of them are great, U.S. researchers r read more »
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Don't you realize you could die if you skip your insulin? the counselor scolded. Don't you know you could fall into a coma or damage your kidneys o read more »
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An Australian study hints that diets with high amounts of meat and fat compared with those rich in vegetables and fruit appear to increase the risk o read more »
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A soon-to-be-published weight-loss book helps dieters reduce not just their intake of calories, but the negative impact of their food consumption cho read more »
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90% of Americans say breakfast is an important part of a healthy diet, but just 49 percent manage to eat breakfast every day, a new survey shows.

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Folic acid supplementation may reduce the risk of stroke by 18 percent or more, but it's not clear whether it boosts outcomes for other cardiovascul read more »
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Today’s children see more promotional ads for other programming, but fewer paid ads and fewer minutes of advertising on television, according to a re read more »
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A year-long, head-to-head study of four widely used diets found that overweight women who followed the very low-carbohydrate Atkins diet had no adver read more »
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Curbing overeating may have more to do with food choices than with how it's portioned out and eaten, a new study finds. read more »
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Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice t read more »
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Three out of every five people have gone without food for two days or more to try to lose weight, a survey claims.The high-protein Atkins diet is mos read more »
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