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  Common sweetener in low-calorie foods may increase obesity

  Lifestyle | May 12, 2017 10:32 IST

  Sugar alcohol -- erythritol -- commonly used as a sugar-replacement sweetener in low-calorie foods, may be associated with weight gain and increase in fat mass in young adults, researchers have found.

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  Obesity during pregnancy may raise risk of epilepsy in children

  Lifestyle | April 05, 2017 10:05 IST

  Women who are overweight or obese during their pregnancy may significantly increase the risk for children developing epilepsy, a study has showed.

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  Obesity in youngsters may leads to uncertain heart failure

  Lifestyle | June 29, 2016 13:34 IST

  New Delhi: Men who are overweight in their adolescence are at an increased risk of heart failures in their middle age, reveals a new study. Heart failure, which relatively occurs around the average age of

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  Daily habits that are adding extra kilos on you

  Lifestyle | June 17, 2015 18:05 IST

  Are you gaining weight instead of putting efforts to loose it? Are the strict diet charts and gym exercises falling flat in your case?Don't worry! You are not the only one facing this problem. Gaining

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  High-sugar diet in fathers could make kids obese

  Lifestyle | December 05, 2014 17:22 IST

  London: A new study demonstrates that increasing sugar in the diet of male fruit flies for just a day before mating could cause obesity in their offspring.There is also evidence that a similar system regulates