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Dieting can not reduce the weight. Diet that prohibits you to eat the food you like will again make you to gain the weight after you hit the target weight. The only way to reduce the weight is to follow a diet plan including combination of foods with lower calories rather than going for excessive calories. Don’t go for such diets which are against scientific opinions and always stick to what is tested and being approved. Read the rest

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow show that obesity and alcohol both increase the risk of liver disease. Recent evidence suggests that excess body weight may also be risky for liver besides alcohol. In the first study, researchers from the University of Oxford examined the link between body mass index (BMI) and liver cirrhosis in 1.2 million middle-aged UK women as part of the Million Women Study. Read the rest

The research by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that pregnant women with gum diseases are more likely to give birth to a premature child than mothers-to-be with good oral health. The study of 160 women was presented to the annual conference of the American Association for Dental Research and showed that those whose gum disease was not treated successfully were three times more likely to give birth before 35 weeks. Severe gum infections cause an increase in the production of prostaglandin and tumour necrosis factor, chemicals which induce labour. Read the rest