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Enjoy, and see you soon… A flood of cheap copies of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug in India is already reshaping the country’s fast-growing obesity medicine market, showing how quickly the patent cliff will affect GLP-1 makers like Eli Lilly, Bloomberg News explains.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
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The study is interesting as a computer science paper, but the methods and findings don’t stand up to medical scientific scrutiny, says Yuval Pinto, MD, an obesity and family medicine doctor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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And the blue velvet armchair was empty but for the permanent impression of his corpulence.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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Kajumba was a laconic man, rail‑thin, with the type of largish head that suggested nature had intended him for corpulence, even as circumstance had conspired to keep him slender.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Nearly all andouille available in America these days is Cajun-style andouille, which is made with pork butt (technically, the shoulder portion of the pig), pork fat, garlic, salt, and spicy seasonings like cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, chili powder, black pepper, and/or filé powder.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Apr. 2026
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The results, published in the journal Radiology, showed that the more ultraprocessed foods people consumed, the higher the amount of fat stored inside their thigh muscles.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Morgan Stanley initiates Janus Living at overweight Morgan Stanley said in its initiation of Janus that the senior housing REIT is firing on all cylinders.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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That discipline is the same one that drove Royal to trim his large-cap growth overweight in the first place.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Use daily for improvement in the look of smile lines, forehead wrinkles, marionette lines, skin hydration, skin elasticity, volume and plumpness.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Virtue Damage Reverse Hair Serum The full list of Virtue’s Damage Reverse Serum’s benefits includes improved resilience, strand plumpness, volume, softness, as well as reduced shedding, heat damage, frizz, and split ends.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
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Dozens of patrons show up at Tsarouhas’ restaurant at all hours — particularly at the crack of dawn — to enjoy patsa as many say the soup eases the stomach after a night of heavy drinking.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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In one sweet photo, Taylor bent down to kiss his wife's stomach, who wore a white skirt and white tank top.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Paunchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paunchiness. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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