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What Weight’s Got to Do with Dementia

| April 11, 2015 Comment

What Weight’s Got to Do with Dementia – Obesity may have some advantages, after all! A new study shows that people who are obese or overweight in middle age are less likely to develop dementia in later years. The study involved almost 2 million people. Lead researcher Dr. Nawab Qizilbash, from OXON Epidemiology Ltd. in […]

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Abdominal Fat May Increase Risk of COPD

| July 11, 2014 Comment

A new study has found that abdominal fat may increase the risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of lung disease like bronchitis, which block air flow and make it difficult to breathe. Being underweight is also bad, according to researchers who studied data from over 100,000 patients aged 50 to 70 years […]

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