About 17% of adolescents (12-19 years of age) and children (6-11 years of age) are obese in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These numbers have continued to increase since at least the early 1990s. Pediatric obesity represents one of our greatest health challenges.
Licorice root has been used in skin care for millennia. According to the National Cancer Institute it has, potential anti-inflammatory, antioxidant...activities. Licochalcone is a molecule contained in licorice root extract which helps control oil production, and is anti-bacterial as well as anti-inflammatory.
Quercetin is the aglycone form of a number of other flavonoid glycosides, such as rutin and quercitrin, found in citrus fruit, buckwheat and onions. Quercetin forms the glycosides quercitrin and rutin together with rhamnose and rutinose, respectively.lthough quercetin is under basic and early-stage clinical research for a variety of disease conditions, there exists no sufficient evidence that it has any beneficial effect in the human body.