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Developing World Faces Growing Anxieties about Childhood Obesity

BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) — Intan Permatasari’s mother simply couldn’t refuse her daughter’s pleas for food. By the time she was 4, Intan had outgrown all the kindergarten uniforms and had to wear home-sewn clothes to school.

We haven't written up this one. The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Microprotein Atlas Links Brain Immune Cell Dysfunction to Alzheimer’s

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