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Digest - Breast Feeding, Pregnancy, Weight Watchers, Prostate Cancer, and Erectile Dysfunction

Fievel is protecting his prostate.
Here are a few valuable articles that I didn’t think warranted a full write-up. Enjoy!
More girls than boys benefit from breastfeeding
For the study, investigators tracked responses to a first infection after birth and found that breast-fed girls were the least likely to be hospitalized with an acute respiratory disease. Only [...]

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Normal Weight Obesity; Or, Why the BMI Sucks As An Individual Measurement Tool

Here’s an article I came across awhile back: Normal Weight Obesity: An Emerging Risk Factor For Heart And Metabolic Problems
More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages — greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women — as well as heart [...]

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Kids and Obesity

This article came through my RSS Reader a few days ago. It is about the significant rise in childhood obesity.
Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research published [...]

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