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A doctor who shed an impressive 25 kilograms in just 42 days has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms after he ended up winning multiple awards at a fitness contest, according to a report in South China Morning Post. 31-year-old Wu Tiangen, working as a surgeon at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in…
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Recent studies have uncovered a frightening association between the popular diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, with a rare eye disorder that may cause blindness. A study, published in the medical journal JAMA Ophthalmology, reported that individuals on those drugs containing semaglutide have a much larger percentage chance of acquiring NAION, or, more…
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By 2023, Khalid had lost an astounding 542 kg, bringing his weight down to a healthy 63.5 kg. (File) New Delhi: Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, once known as the heaviest man alive, has shed 542 kg, thanks to Saudi Arabia’s former King Abdullah. In 2013, Khalid weighed a life-threatening 610 kg and was bedridden for…
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BMI has remained the go-to method for measuring health since it first started being used in the latter part of the 20th century. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Body mass index (better known as BMI) has long been used to get a quick and easy snapshot of a person’s body fat levels. To calculate someone’s…
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