Tag: Smoking
The microbiota responsible for weight gain after stopping smoking?
Weight gain after stopping smoking is a serious obstacle to smoking cessation, even for the most motivated. A recent study explores this phenomenon and shows that the microbiota is involved…
Sedentary lifestyle worse than smoking, diabetes or heart disease for your health?
While the harmful effects of a lack of physical activity are well known, the risk of mortality associated with a sedentary lifestyle could, according to one study, be greater than…
Smoking cannabis when you are pregnant could affect your baby’s height
Pregnant women who smoke cannabis during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to smaller babies. Smoking during pregnancy has well documented negative effects on birth weight in infants and…