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Prebiotics Prevent Excessive Weight Gain in Teenagers

2/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) Daily supplements of certain prebiotics given at the right time in development may have long-lasting benefits for adolescents' healthy body weight and body fat ratio, according to a study conducted at Baylor College of Medicine and published...

Lack of omega-3s can contribute to childhood obesity

1/30/2007 - (NaturalNews) A lack of healthy fats can actually cause children to become overweight, according to a study published online by the Swedish Research Council. Researchers based at the Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University studied the lifestyle,...

Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people (press release)

10/6/2006 - Older people with high waist-hip ratios (WHRs) have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index, or BMI, a new study reveals. Whereas justifiable attention is given to the increasing problem of obesity in the general population,...

Smoking, High Body Mass Index Increase Genetic Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (press release)

9/5/2006 - Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, report for the first time how two behavioral lifestyle factors together alter the genetic susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration...

Body Mass Index found useless because it does not consider body composition

8/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) New research published in The Lancet medical journal suggests that the Body Mass Index (BMI) system of classifying body weight may be inaccurate for assessing the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease. The BMI, which classifies...

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