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New Research on Obesity Epidemic Points to Workplace

May 26, 2011

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office job bad for health

A new study from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, points to another cause of the obesity epidemic in the United States: a decrease in physical activity in the workplace. According to an article about the study published today in the New York Times, jobs requiring moderate physical activity, which accounted for […]

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Is Shift-Work Affecting Your Liver and Weight?

March 15, 2011

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night shift weight

This week ScienceDaily wrote about a study that found the molecules that protect the liver from fat work during daytime hours. A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, who is the director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has discovered molecules that act […]

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