Month: February 2011

To lose weight, children need to decrease the total number of calories they take in (ie, eat a healthy diet) and increase activity levels to burn more …
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Concern over side effects has been an ongoing issue for diet drugs, however. In early October 2010, the manufacturer of the weight–loss drug Meridia …
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A 300-word story just can’t do justice to the number of questions that arise about the study in question. One can’t establish cause and effect from this type of study.

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Although this story got the same star score as the competing HealthDay story, it was clearly better in small but significant ways. Read and compare.

(3 stars)
This story got the same 3-star score as a competing WebMD story, but missed the big picture that the latter story captured.