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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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Improve Your Metabolic Health

Improve Your Metabolic Health
What is metabolic health? Metabolism refers to the chemical reactions that occur in our body. These reactions turn energy in food into energy for moving about and regulate blood sugar among countless other things. Metabolic health refers to maintaining certain factors in ranges that foster proper functioning. Poor metabolic health predicts increased risk of chronic…
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Meal Timing and Metabolic Health

Meal Timing and Metabolic Health
Eat the same number of calories for better metabolic health Hit a home run: Eat more calories earlier in the day by shifting your food intake from dinner to lunch and/or from lunch to breakfast. Also, shift your calories from sugars and starches to vegetables, fruits, beans, and nuts. You can improve your metabolic health…
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Eat Better to Improve Your Metabolic Health

Eat Better to Improve Your Metabolic Health
Limit carbohydrate intake Keep your blood glucose in a healthy range The medical establishment has long advocated a low-fat diet to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Yet, accumulating evidence supports limiting carbohydrate intake leads to equal or better results. Researchers at the University of Connecticut tested the idea that the biological markers of…
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