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🔬 Major Obesity Guidelines Just Changed: 70% of Americans Now Classified Obese

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This episode covers groundbreaking health and science discoveries from 2024. New obesity guidelines could reclassify nearly 70% of U.S. adults as obese by adding waist circumference measurements to traditional BMI calculations. MIT researchers reveal how high-fat diets push liver cells into a dangerous survival mode that increases cancer risk. Scientists discover a protein that could potentially reverse immune system aging, while astronomers capture the first direct images of cosmic collisions in a nearby star system. Plus, why sleep duration may be more critical to longevity than previously understood.Subscribe to Peer Review'd Newsletter: https://peerreviewd.com/Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

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