"We're not really sure if diet can cause these acne flares or maybe they just make them more severe, " she says.
Poor diet is a key cause of the current obesity epidemic.
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The problem with the study, Diet Soft Drink Consumption is Associated with an Increased Risk of Vascular Events in the Northern Manhattan Study ( Gardner et al., Journal of General Internal Medicine) is that the numbers are low enough to leave us uncertain as to whether diet drinks were the cause or simply correlated with other factors that led to these events.
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Too much mercury in one's diet from any source can cause loss of coordination, blindness or even death.
Kentucky lawyers Shirley Cunningham, William Gallion and Melbourne Mills, Jr. recruited some 440 clients after reports that fen-phen, a diet-drug combination, could cause life-threatening side effects.
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Prof Hafler added that a low salt-diet was, however, unlikely to cause harm.
In a healthy mouse (one with working leptin receptors) even a diet that is 60% fat does not cause a build-up of lipids anywhere except in the adipose tissue.
Lack of exercise and poor diet are poised to replace smoking as a leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control presented by Tommy Thompson, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The numbers could be even worse as statisticians said they chose a more conservative approach to estimating diet and lifestyle-related deaths, saying the factors might actually cause 500, 000 deaths annually, as much as cancer.
It was found that a reduced-calorie diet cut the activity of genes linked to stress responses in the body that cause inflammation and the release of free radicals.
In 1996 he converted the centers into clinics for doctors to prescribe fen-phen diet drugs, only to run into the little problem that these drugs can cause fatal heart problems.
The meat of "Thinner This Year" is in its chapters about components of a healthy diet and the fast food, processed products and other "dead foods" that cause weight gain.
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The most damaging evidence that meat is a major cause of cancer are studies of people who went into spontaneous remission solely because of a change in their diet.
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