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When assessing whether preschoolers are overweight, health professionals should use other measures such as waist-to-height ratio in addition to the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published in
One of the largest and longest-running efforts to evaluate the potential benefits of the Mediterranean-style diet in lowering risk of stroke found that the diet may be especially
Sometimes, the body’s otherwise intelligent immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s healthy tissue by responding to infections that do not exist. This causes chronic inflammation and leads to
Taking high dose folic acid supplements in later pregnancy (beyond the first trimester) does not prevent pre-eclampsia in women at high risk for this condition, finds a randomised
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Fish oil supplement in the later stages of pregnancy is associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) in children in the first six years of life, which
Eating half a block of cheese a day LOWERS a person’s cholesterol Forget what you’ve heard, eating half a block of full-fat cheese daily for 6 weeks LOWERS
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Fritz Lanman didn’t notice the weight — until he did. Growing up as a multi-sport athlete, he could always stay in shape without thinking too much about it.
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