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# Weight Loss

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Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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Jan 15th 2012, 11:00 AM
# Online Drugs
Consumers warned against buying illegal diet pills online
The Irish Medicines Board has warned that seemingly ‘safe’ slimming products bought online can contain Sibutramine – a substance linked to heart attacks and strokes that has been and withdrawn from the worldwide market.
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Jan 4th 2012, 6:16 PM
# Weight Loss
Singer Jennifer Hudson to open weight loss centre
The Dreamgirls star lost 80lbs with Weight Watchers and will open her own centre today in Chicago.
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Sep 27th 2011, 4:27 PM
# BAD DIET
Dieting forces the brain to eat itself - report
It’s emerged that in order to conserve energy, the body’s starvation mode kicks in and brain cells eat themselves, like other parts of the body.
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Aug 2nd 2011, 9:01 PM
# Diet pills
Death-warning drug was never licensed in Ireland
Medicines Board reassures that weight-loss medicine which is linked to 500 deaths was not prescribed here.
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Nov 25th 2010, 9:14 PM
# Shedding Pounds
Lose two stone in 10 weeks: just eat sweets
An American nutrition professor eats nothing but ‘Twinkie’ bars for 10 weeks – and loses 27 pounds.
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Nov 10th 2010, 8:05 AM
# Dieting
Junkfood diet could lead to weight loss, says professor
Big Macs all round! A professor loses half a stone in four days by pigging out.
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Sep 9th 2010, 1:26 PM
# Dieting
Is it really that easy? Drinking water before meals helps you lose weight
Drinking water makes you feel full quicker – and apparently helps dieters shed the pounds.
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Aug 24th 2010, 4:02 PM
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