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A group of children advocacy organizations has filed a new Federal Trade Commission complaint saying not only is YouTube's kid-friendly app exposing children to too much advertising, but it's also showing profane and expletive-laden videos.

It was in April when the group filed a complaint about YouTube Kids for the first time. The complaint said YouTube has been exposing children to a barrage of commercials for corporate entities like McDonald's, Mattel and Hasbro. The coalition of eight advocacy groups said that such commercials have violated federal laws against unfair or deceptive marketing.

According to a new study, children are three times more likely to be obese as compared to their parents or grandparents.

Researchers gave a warning that the trend was a ‘daunting public health threat’ as many will go on to develop heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and arthritis.

The study by University College London has found that children born in the 1990s were between two to three times more likely to be obese as compared to the ones born between the 1950s and 1980s.

Researchers found that around a fifth of boys and a quarter of girls born after 1990 were obese by the time they became ten years old. But this compared to 7 per cent of boys and 11 per cent of girls born in either the 1940s or 1970s.

Americans are affected by metabolic acid at a much larger scale today than in the past, found a new study. The study showed metabolic syndrome has become the plight of nearly 35% American adults and over half of American seniors. This condition is caused by various metabolic risk factors like increased blood pressure, a high blood sugar level, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels.

The presence of all these things makes a person highly likely to develop deadly health problems, like heart attack, stroke and even diabetes. According to the American Heart Association, 34% of adults are affected by it. The incidences of metabolic syndrome have increased in recent years. The prevalence sought a rise from 32.9% to 34.7% from 2011 to 2012.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Tuesday that four cancer charities and their operatives have been charged for pocketing about $187 million from the funds donated for their projects.

FTC, the independent agency of the United States government, stated that it worked in with all 50 states of the country. According to the agency, the charged cancer charities told the donors that that their donations would help people who have been suffering from cancer.

Researchers at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) in New York affirmed that probiotics that are claimed to be gluten-free may not be completely free from gluten.

Probiotics contain traces of gluten that could cause some serious health complications to celiac disease patients. The research team, led by Dr. Samantha Nazareth, assessed 22 probiotic supplements available in the form of tablets.

These were labeled as gluten-free. When they were assessed, more than half or around 55% of the products were tested positive for traces of gluten. Out of all, four were having gluten more than 20 parts per million limits.

The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photo of outer space 25 years ago. Since then, Hubble has provided the most detailed images of our solar system, our galaxy, and the universe.

From time to time, Hubble has provided some amazing photos of nebulas, distant galaxies, supernovas and interstellar clouds. These photos have amazed all of us and it is expected that it will continue to do so till the end of the decade.

On April 24, 1990, things changed when the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from Kennedy Space Centre. Before the telescope was launched, ancient stargazers and astronomers such as Galileo and Copernicus had to make observations through blurred view through earth’s atmosphere.