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11Apr 2012

Obesity, Pregnancy, And - Maybe, Possibly - Autism

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Deborah Blum
autism, diabetes, hypertension, npr, obesity, pediatrics, pregancy, The Atlantic, The Salt, UC-Davis, University of California-Davis, Vallejo Times Herald, wall street journal
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If you go to the website of the journal, Pediatrics, you will find a section labeled eFirst pages. These are articles published online in advance of the print publication. This Monday, there were 15 such early releases, ranging from...

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30Mar 2012

Eat Chocolate. Lose Weight. Yeah, right.

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Deborah Blum
Beatrice Golumb, Blisstree, chocolate, Deborah Kotz, Jennifer Corbett Dooran, npr, The Salt, The Willy Wonka Diet, University of California-San Diego, weight-loss, Weighty Matters
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This is a good news story.

And, no, sadly it's not that scientists have finally done that holy-grail study proving that eating chocolate by the truckload induces weight loss. But a group from San Diego did publish one this week that kind of, sort of suggested that possibility.

And the...

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