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What You Can Expect by Increasing Your Physical Activity!
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2006
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Physical activity effects every cell in your body. Increasing physical activity improves our everyday quality of life by increasing our muscular strength, and muscular endurance.
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Physical Activity Shrinks Abdominal Fat Cells
Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Physical activity may be especially helpful in reducing the size of fat cells around the waistline -- more so than diet alone. That's important, because fat specifically in the abdomen has been linked to the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
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New Study Shows A Low-carb Diet Helps Control Diabetes
Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Researchers in Sweden say a follow-up study of patients on a low-carbohydrate diet showed stable improvement and reduced need for medication.
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Obese Have Higher Cardiac Risk, but Better Treatment Outcomes
Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Obese individuals are at increased risk for developing an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but because they are treated more aggressively than their lean counterparts, their outcomes are actually better.
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Diabetes Prevalence Outstrips National Growth Rate and More
Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a 50% increase in the prevalence of diabetes from 1997 to 2004.
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Walking Makes a Difference in Controlling Type 2 Diabetes
Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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How much walking is needed to produce the best effects for controlling Type 2 diabetes?
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Diabetes Tied to Enlarged Prostate
Posted: Thursday, August 03, 2006
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Researchers report that, BPH, or benign prostate hyperplasia, is a common condition in older men, but the risk of developing the condition seems to be increased by obesity and high blood sugar levels.
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Vegan Diet Reverses Diabetes Symptoms
Posted: Thursday, August 03, 2006
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People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet.
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1 In 5 Youth With Diabetes Has Heart Risk
Posted: Thursday, August 03, 2006
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Overall roughly 20 percent of young people with diabetes (92% in those with type 2 and 14% in those with type 1) experience at least two additional cardiovascular disease risk factors, according to a new study.
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Usefulness of BMI is Suspect
Posted: Thursday, August 03, 2006
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Other techniques that measure how the weight is distributed on the body are thought to provide a better way to assess risk.
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