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When dieting, watch your vitamins

When weighing the benefits of one weight-loss plan over another, dieters may want to consider what else might be cut with the calories and carbs, suggests a new study. More than $30 billion a year is spent on weight loss products in the U.S., with one in three adults reportedly trying to trim pounds. The focus of [...]

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Major birth defects tied to common epilepsy drug

The safety of a popular drug for seizures took another hit Wednesday when researchers pinned a handful of major birth defects on the medication. Earlier research had shown that taking Depakote (valproate) during pregnancy might lower the baby’s IQ and lead to deformities in up to one in ten cases. (See Reuters Health story April 16, [...]

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Gut Bacteria Might Be Making People Fat

Eating a Westernized diet with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes in the gut flora of mice — changes that caused the mice to become obese, researchers have found. These shifts in the microbial environment, reported in the Nov. 11 edition of Science Translational Medicine, might mean that experts should look more closely [...]

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Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk

TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) — Swedish studies add heart failure to the list of cardiac problems linked to overweight and obesity. “The take-home message is that body-mass index, however we measure it, is associated with the risk of heart failure,” said Emily B. Levitan, a research fellow at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit of Beth [...]

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Smart People Choose Acomplia Weight Loss Pills

Smartness of an individual can only be gauzed by the action he or she takes to get out of a problem. Whatever may be the complexity of such a problem, only a smart individual can get out of it with flying colours. Obesity is one such problem which is really complex. It needs a lot [...]

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