Articles Tagged “obesity”
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Tiny Tongue of Drosophila’s Could Offer Big Clues in Fight Against Obesity
The tiny tongue of a fruit fly could provide big answers to questions about human eating habits, possibly even leading to new ways to treat obesity, according to a study from a team of Texas…
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Obesity – mild or severe – raises kidney stone risk
Obesity in general nearly doubles the risk of developing kidney stones, but the degree of obesity doesn’t appear to increase or decrease the risk one way or the other, a new study from Johns Hopkins…
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Obesity Now Poses as Great a Threat to Quality of Life as Smoking
As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to…