health
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No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds
Dietary supplements don’t do much to help people lose weight — that’s the verdict from a large new review published Wednesday. The review found little high-quality evidence from studies trying to test these supplements’ claimed benefits and only inconsistent evidence that some supplements could possibly offer a small boost in losing weight.
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Amazon’s Weird Body Fat Scanner Is Still a Problem
Amazon would like you to believe that knowing your body fat percentage via its Halo Band fitness tracker’s body scan feature will make you a healthier person. So much so that it’s released a validation study in partnership with Pennington Biomedical Research Centre that asserts the feature is comparable to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) —…
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Previously Common Diseases Are Bouncing Back After a Covid Hiatus
With covid-19 waning in the U.S. and people returning to their old habits, once-routine contagious diseases are predictably popping back up after a year of being suppressed by pandemic precautions.
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Here’s Everything Coming to Your Apple Watch in watchOS 8 This Spring
The best part of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is getting a sneak peek into all the new features Apple’s got planned for its product lineup. In the case of the Apple Watch, today’s keynote gave us a look at all the updates coming later this spring — and maybe a few hints at what Apple’s…