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Making It Through the Holidays

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

While controlling diabetes (or reducing one’s risk) is a yearlong effort, perhaps no other season poses as many temptations as the holidays.So how do you make it through? Here are suggestions, several from the Defeat Diabetes Foundation (www.defeatdiabetes.org), to help you keep focus.

Traffic - Risk of a Heart Attack?

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

The longer you spend sitting in traffic, the higher your risk of a heart attack.

This does not just mean sitting in a traffic jam - it includes cycling in traffic or being a bus passenger, within an hour of your being out there among the cars and other vehicles.

For Optimal Health, Cut Even More Body Fat

Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004

Men with BMIs between 22.0 and 24.4 were significantly more likely to develop at least one of the weight-related illnesses than their leaner peers with BMIs between 18.5 and 21.9. Although BMIs below 25 are healthy, BMIs below 22 are healthier

What Keeps People From Going to Gyms

Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004

Many of us have good intentions of going to the gym on a regular basis, but why don’t we even get through the front doors?
What is it we are avoiding by not going to the gym?

Aging: Sharper Minds With Bustling Feet

Posted: Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Just going out regularly for an easy walk appears to help elderly people ward off a decline in their mental abilities, two new studies have found.

Exercise Stalls Effects of Aging on the Heart

Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2004

The pumping ability of the Masters athletes' hearts was the same as that of the younger adults less than half their age. "It appears that lifelong exercise training completely prevented the stiffening of the heart muscle that has been thought to be an inevitable consequence of aging. We found that it is aging in addition to being sedentary,"

Exercise, Diet Cut Diabetes Risk in Sedentary Men

Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Vigorous exercise - half-hour-long sessions three times per week - alone lowered glucose levels by 13 percent and insulin levels by 20 percent.

A Daily Walk Prevents Diabetes By As Much As 80%

Posted: Thursday, September 16, 2004

Ten Year study shows that just a half an hour's walking a day can almost eradicate the risk of developing diabetes.

Intermittent Exercise Better Than Continuous

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

New research from the University of Missouri-Columbia suggests intermittent exercise is more effective at lowering artery-blocking fat in the bloodstream than continuous exercise when exercising just 30 minutes.

New Study Shows Walking Reduces Risk of Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Researchers at Glasgow Universitybelieve 30 minutes of moderate exercise or walking every day could significantly reduce the risk of getting Type 2 diabetes.Although people with a parent who has Type 2 diabetes are three times more likely to get the condition themselves, the study found that taking part in regular exercise could make significant changes to the metabolism to reduce this risk.