Hold a tennis ball in your fist. Imagine it’s your heart (it’s about the same size). Now squeeze the ball hard to mimic the contractions your heart performs to pump blood through your circulatory system 60 times every minute.
Repeat 100,000 times.
That’s how often your heart expands and contracts in just one day. Blood flows into [...]

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Obese women are more likely to give birth to children with spina bifida, heart problems, cleft palate and a number of other defects, British researchers said on Tuesday.
The findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association underscore obesity’s role as a major health problem and add to evidence that being too heavy while [...]

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Obesity may raise the risk of getting migraines, the latest health problem to be associated with being much too heavy, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
People ages 20 to 55 who were obese — either by a measure of belly fat or using the standard body mass index based on a person’s height and weight — [...]

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