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Children Consume More Calories and Fat on Pizza Days

| January 19, 2015 Comment

Children consume more calories and fat on pizza days, according to a new study published in the journal, Pediatrics. George Washington University researchers found that while pizza consumption at dinner declined, lunch consumption of pizza remained the same for the study period, 2003 and 2010. Pizza is a common item in schools cafeterias and kids’ […]

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Diet Pill Contrave Approved by FDA

| September 11, 2014 Comment

A new diet pill, Contrave, has been been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The diet pill is made by Orexigen Therapeutics Inc; it’s not known when it will become available in the market. The new pill is only the third obesity drug that ‘s been approved in the past decade. FDA […]

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