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How to Prevent Weight Gain After Quitting Smoking

How to Prevent Weight Gain After Quitting Smoking

Cigarette use is detrimental to one’s health. Apart from exacerbating risks of cancer and heart disease, our post ‘A Study Reveals the Side Effects of Marijuana and Tobacco Smoke’ points out that individuals who smoke tobacco can develop emphysema among other lung issues. This condition causes smokers to experience inflamed airways and ultimately leads to …

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Super Gonorrhea Has Reached The U.S.

Super gonorrhea has infected humans in the United States for the first known time. This Monday, Massachusetts public health officials announced the finding of two gonorrhea cases appearing to display enhanced resistance to all known antibiotic classes that can be used against it. These instances were thankfully still treatable, but it’s the latest reminder that …

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A Study Reveals The Side Effects Of Marijuana And Tobacco Smoke

Artificial marijuana with names like K2 and Spice is used less in states where weed is legalized. “People think that marijuana is safer than tobacco, but this study makes me worry that this may not be true,” said Dr. Giselle Revah, an assistant professor in the department of radiology at the University of Ottawa in …

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How Are Ultra-Processed Foods Like Hot Dogs, Donuts Linked To Premature Death?

In a new study, researchers in Brazil found that ultra-processed, ready-to-eat foods like hot dogs, frozen pizzas and doughnuts may cause people to die too soon. The results were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, which is a journal that is reviewed by experts in the field. The researchers said that ultra-processed foods …

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Moderna Shot May Cause Double To Triple As Many Heart Problems As Pfizer, New Study Finds

A new Canadian study shows that Moderna’s COVID-19 shot may have between two and three times as many side effects related to the heart as Pfizer’s. Within 21 days of getting their second shot, the rates of myocarditis and pericarditis were 35.6 and 22.9 per million doses, respectively, for Moderna, while they were 12.6 and …

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New Drug Helps Tame Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure

Some people with high blood pressure can’t get it under control with regular drugs, but a new study shows that an experimental drug can help these hard-to-treat cases. Why do some people have more trouble than others controlling their high blood pressure? Researchers say that high blood pressure is much harder to control when it …

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