Childhood obesity is a health threat that is becoming more and more common worldwide. It increases risk later on for a variety of life-threatening challenges, including type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease and even mental health problems.
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'Relatively Rare' Cases - the Children Critically Ill With COVID-19
Figures just published reveal the number of children in the UK who were in paediatric intensive care units with COVID-19.
Jellyfish Contain No Calories, But They Still Attract Predators
They contain no carbohydrates.
Evidence Supports ‘Hot Start’ Scenario And Early Ocean Formation On Pluto
The accretion of new material during Pluto’s formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet’s orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
Mysterious Climate Change
New research findings underline the crucial role that sea ice throughout the Southern Ocean played for atmospheric CO2 in times of rapid climate change in the past.
Wildfire Smoke Has Immediate Harmful Health Effects: UBC Study
Exposure to wildfire smoke affects the body’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems almost immediately, according to new research from the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.