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Per 100 grams, baobab actually has more soluble fiber than psyllium, the active ingredient used in laxatives.
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Abusing slimming pills and laxatives can have a dramatic effect on your health.
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Once doctors confirmed the presence of stones in his body, the man was fed laxatives and bananas to eject them.
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According the National Eating Disorders Association, more than half of American teenage use unhealthy methods like cigarettes, laxatives, vomiting, and self-starving to lose weight.
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Miss Booth was treated in a specialist unit in Liverpool last December and had promised her parents that she had stopped taking laxatives and diuretics.
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Also significant is the finding that men who used laxatives but got little relief from them were the most likely of all to develop Parkinson's.
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Mylan's pharmaceutical cabinet holds antibiotics, antidepressants, anti-inflammatories and laxatives.
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The coroner said he told Mr Booth it was "quite right and proper" for him to campaign to make people aware of the dangers of diuretics and laxatives, which are widely available in pharmacies.
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Despite the fact that millions have eaten prunes and drunk prune juice in order to lighten themselves of their internal burden for centuries, the European Union has now ruled that prunes are not in fact laxatives.
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At the inquest, held at Liverpool's Coroner's Court, consultant pathologist Dr Charles Burrows said the low levels of potassium found in Miss Booth's body could be related to the amount of diuretics and laxatives she took.
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