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Obesity

Diet Foods for Children May Lead to Obesity

November 1, 2009
Children diets

A team of researchers contends that animals learn to connect the taste of food with the amount of caloric energy it provides, and children who consume low-calorie versions of foods that are normally high in calories may develop distorted connections between taste and calorie content, leading them to overeating.

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Increased Food Intake Alone Explains the Obesity in the States

May 10, 2009
Increased food intake explains the increase in body weight

A New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake.

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