Category Archives: Healthy living

Ectopic Fat

What is ectopic fat? This term refers to the accumulation of fat molecules (triglycerides) in organs not designed to store fat. More specifically, ectopic fat can occur in your liver, pancreas, heart and skeletal muscles with undesirable consequences. Until recently, adipose tissue, which is comprised of fat cells, was thought be solely a fat storage…
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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

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

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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