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Enrich Your Life to Prevent Dementia

Enrich Your Life to Prevent Dementia
Mentally stimulating activities and risk of dementia Higher levels of daily intellectual activities predict lower risk of dementia. But do people with greater intellectual activities also embrace other healthy behaviors, such as increased physical activity, eating a better diet, and not smoking, which could account for the lower risk of dementia? Researchers addressed this question…
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Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
The type 2 diabetes medical community wakes up For decades, the medical community has regarded type 2 diabetes (T2D) as permanent, progressive, and irreversible. Recent randomized controlled trials show this is false, at least for recently diagnosed cases. British diabetes researcher Roy Taylor developed the idea of reversing T2D with a structured program that begins…
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A Healthy Lifestyle Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

A Healthy Lifestyle Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
We’ve known this for over 20 years Type 2 diabetes is a huge and growing health problem globally, not just in the US. A 2001 study by Finish researchers asked whether diabetes could be prevented in high-risk persons using interventions designed to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Five hundred twenty-two overweight men and women with an…
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The Metabolic Syndrome

The Metabolic Syndrome
What is the metabolic syndrome? Back in the 1960s, Gerald Reaven and his colleagues at Stanford University noticed that heart attack patients often exhibited the same suite of conditions. They included high blood glucose, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, and abdominal obesity. In the 1980’s, Reaven termed this suite of conditions as Syndrome X, now…
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