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Oral Bacteria May Contribute To The Development Of Obesity
09 July 2009
The world-wide explosion of overweight people has been called an epidemic. The inflammatory nature of obesity is widely recognized. Could it really be an epidemic involving an infectious agent? In this climate of concern...
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New System Reveals Whether School Wellness Policies 'Make The Grade'
09 July 2009
In an effort to help families and school administrators fight the epidemic of obesity among children, a Yale-led team of researchers has developed a practical coding system to evaluate school wellness policies, which are...
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Middle-Aged Mice Fed Antibiotic Lived Longer
09 July 2009
US researchers found that feeding middle-aged mice the antibiotic rapamycin, an anti-fungal agent originally discovered in the soil of Easter
Island, helped them live between 9 and 14 per cent longer than equivalent mice...
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