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Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News


WHO targets child obesity with food marketing curbs (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Reuters - Health ministers, alarmed at the growing number of obese children, agreed on Thursday to try to reduce children's consumption of junk food and soft drinks by asking member states to restrict advertising and marketing.

Is a high carbohydrate diet linked to pancreatic cancer? (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2010 11:40 AM PDT

Reuters - One of the first symptoms of pancreatic cancer -- often noticed even years before diagnosis -- is indigestion. A new study suggests that these timely tummy troubles may be enough to explain away previous links made between a high carbohydrate diet and an increased risk of the disease.

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