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		<description><![CDATA[After $many billions spent on looking for genetic causes of common diseases like obesity we now have the answer in the latest NEJM that was obvious without spending all that money. The most common SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) associated with obesity tends to influence people to eat high-fat, energy dense food, commonly known as junk food. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=771&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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Many more children on medication, study says

&#8216;Surprising&#8217; rise targets diabetes, other obesity-related diseases
By Stephanie Desmon
 

November 3, 2008
Baltimore Sun

Hundreds of thousands more children are taking medications for chronic diseases, with a huge spike over a four-year period in the number given drugs to treat conditions once seen primarily in adults and now linked to what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=634&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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