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Many of the girl’s teeth had rotten away at the time of her death, the court heard. A woman in the US was sentenced on Friday to at least nine years in prison for manslaughter after she fed her diabetic daughter a diet consisting mainly of Mountain Dew. According to the New York Post, her 4-year-old…
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On the hottest days, risk of hospitalisation for people with metabolic disorders nearly doubled. New Delhi: On the hottest days, risk of hospitalisation for people with metabolic disorders such as those of sugar and blood pressure, and obesity, almost doubled as compared to days recording comfortable temperatures, a new study has found. The research analysing…
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Higher consumption of most ultra-processed foods is linked to a slightly higher risk of death, with ready-to-eat meat, poultry, and seafood based products, sugary drinks, dairy based desserts, and highly processed breakfast foods showing the strongest associations, finds a 30-year U.S. observational study. The results were published in the journal The BMJ. The researchers say not all…
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A bottle of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s atorvastatin calcium tablets arranged for a photograph, February 20, 2014. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. (For top health news of the…
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