However, researchers from the Department of Public Health Sciences at King's College, London say the link between obesity and asthma is recent.

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Clare Stevinson, a Cancer Research UK researcher at the department of exercise and health sciences at the University of Bristol, said the findings of the endometrial cancer research were "encouraging".

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One of the researchers who conducted several of these clinical trials is Richard Bloomer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Health and Sport Sciences at The University of Memphis.

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Dr. Joseph Graziano, interim department chair of environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, said the public should switch away from lead bullets -- even if the research is still developing.

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Dr. Yoshikawa received the Boyd McCandless Award for early career contributions to developmental psychology from the American Psychological Association, and has served on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation.

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