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We now know that nicotine disrupts a person's metabolic rate, appetite and fat storage, thereby setting up a weight-gain pattern that the baby will experience later in life.
Nancy Wurtzel: Obesity Epidemic: Is Your Mother to Blame? Nancy Wurtzel 2012
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The Institute of Medicine has released new weight-gain guidelines for pregnancy.
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A new study suggests that if the upward weight-gain trend of the past few decades continues unabated, then the number of obese people will increase dramatically.
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We now know that nicotine disrupts a person's metabolic rate, appetite and fat storage, thereby setting up a weight-gain pattern that the baby will experience later in life.
Nancy Wurtzel: Obesity Epidemic: Is Your Mother to Blame? Nancy Wurtzel 2012
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"Both men and women can lose weight and body fat with exercise, which is a good start to reversing the weight-gain course that most Americans are on," says lead researcher Anne McTiernan, an internist and director of the Prevention Center at Fred Hutchinson.
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Milk weight-gain ratios for the calves up to weaning.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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The "Freshman Fifteen" facts and fantasies about weight-gain in college women.
Dr. Susan Albers: 'Summer Reading to Prevent the 'Freshman 15' 2010
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Grain weight-gain ratios for the calves after weaning.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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The "Freshman Fifteen" facts and fantasies about weight-gain in college women.
Dr. Susan Albers: 'Summer Reading to Prevent the 'Freshman 15' 2010
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That limits the conclusions that can be drawn from the study, according to Kathleen Rasmussen, a professor at Cornell University and chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine committee that issued the new weight-gain recommendations.
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