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The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

Impact on brown adipose tissue: Berberine may lower weight by increasing brown adipose tissue, a type of fat tissue that ...

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New bill COVER, lead by Alabama Democrat Shomari Figures, is designed to reach people in states which refuse to extend ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Canadian youngsters are munching loads of ultra-processed foods, increasing their lifelong risk of obesity, a new study says.