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03/26/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Use of most-prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, during pregnancy found to increase risk of obesity in the child

According to the results of a study, women who take metformin, a common diabetes medication, could be putting their children at increased risk of being obese or overweight. More pregnant women with gestational diabetes or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are taking metformin to treat their conditions. PCOS usually causes infertility, and the condition can put women at […]

01/09/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Teaching children about the causes of obesity helps reduce it, study confirms… so why aren’t schools teaching kids about junk foods?

Could health education help combat childhood obesity? That question is what Tabitha Blasingame of the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital sought to answer in her paper. On determining whether or not health education could contribute to better food and lifestyle choices, she discovered that it very well could. For her study, Blasingame recruited 15 high school […]

08/20/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Cutting sugar consumption for just two weeks found to dramatically improve the health of children

Nutritionists have observed that simply cutting sugar intake drastically improved the metabolic function among children in only two weeks. These results were published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA) and ends with a call for parents to take a stronger stance on their children’s diet. Authors of the nutritional review revealed that […]

08/02/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Shocking study finds that 90 percent of American men are too fat

The same team that said that up to 76 percent of the world’s population may be overfat are now claiming that among Americans, 90 percent of our men carry excess weight around their abdomen, with 50 percent of children suffering from the same potentially dangerous condition. The term ‘overfat’, which is defined as having a […]

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