Obesity, diabetes: expanding India faces big problem
Indian housewife Sujata Budarapu was shocked when she was told that her two sons were on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes.

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Antioxidants In Pregnancy Prevent Obesity In Animal Offspring
New biological research may be relevant to the effects of a mother’s high-fat diet during pregnancy on the development of obesity in her children. An animal study at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that a high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet causes oxidative stress-an excess of deleterious free radicals-during pregnancy, predisposing the offspring to obesity and diabetes. Feeding …

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Obesity: who is responsible?
Nowadays obesity is the one topic that is talked about a lot. As obesity increases at an alarming rate world-wide, health practitioners find it to have become a major health hazard.

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Childhood Obesity Linked With Health Habits, Not Heredity
Are some children genetically tuned to be overweight, or is lifestyle to blame for childhood obesity? Check-ups of 1,003 Michigan 6th graders in a school-based health program showed children who are obese were more likely to consume school lunch instead of a packed lunch from home and spend two hours a day watching TV or playing a video game. The results were compiled by the University of …

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