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Do skipping sugar pills make you gain weight?

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Sugar pills?: placebo pills from birth control? Diabetes treatment pills? What kind of sugar pills are you referring to? Please clarify

Dr Munshower and 5 doctors agreed

Answered 11/27/2017

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