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Losing Weight--What's Myth and What's Real?

What you've always heard about weight loss may not be right.

Much of what you’ve been told about weight loss is wrong, Health on Today reports

The August issue of The New England Journal of Medicine has debunked some myths surrounding weight loss — you don't need to take a slow and steady approach to weight loss, you can go ahead and set a lofty weight loss goal and, unfortunately, sex doesn't burn as many calories as you might think. 

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