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WASHINGTON – Scan the breathless headlines at any magazine rack — Fight Flab in Minutes! Get Beach Ready! Add the skinny yet buxom model, and it should be no surprise that the average woman feels insecure if not downright unhappy with her real-world figure. Hang on: Are we worried just about appearance, or about whether our size signals a health problem?
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GENEVA – Nine chemicals, including headlice treatment lindane, have been added to a list of poisonous substances that are to be eliminated under the Stockholm Convention, the UN Environment Programme said.
NEW YORK - Targeted electrical stimulation of a particular region of the brain can lessen symptoms of major depression that hasn’t improved with other treatments, the results of small pilot study suggest.
NEW YORK – Vibrating exercise platforms, which are increasingly found in commercial gyms in Europe and elsewhere, may help people lose the particularly harmful deep “hidden” fat that surrounds the abdominal organs and is linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
AMSTERDAM - Forcing children to exercise during school will do little to tackle childhood obesity, researchers told a conference on Friday.
AMSTERDAM – The secret of staying thin could be at least partly down to a good night’s rest, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam. “After a bad night’s sleep, people ate 550 calories (22 percent) more than normal,” said the findings of a study by the European Centre of Taste Science in Dijon in central France, presented at the gathering.
NEW YORK – Disabilities related to obesity and arthritis decrease women’s quality of life during their senior years, according to research presented Saturday at the American Geriatrics Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.
WASHINGTON – A flu virus is a powerhouse of evolution, mutating at the maximum speed nature allows. A mild virus can morph into a killer and vice versa.
