Tag: insulin
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Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve made great strides in a lot of diseases. Over the years death rates from heart disease continue to go down. Survival from cancers is going up. But one disease still keeps climbing and that’s diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is between 7% and 9% in adults. And it increases with age such that 1…
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How kicking the habit of late night snacking is good for you
It’s 9 pm. You’re hungry. Even though you had dinner a few hours ago, you’re starting to get the feeling it wasn’t enough. Do you grab something to eat, knowing you’ll be in bed shortly? Or do you ride it out until breakfast, but then worry you’ll wake up in the middle of the night…
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Targeting cancer with exercise: What role does it have?
What do you think when you hear the word cancer? A lot of us will think of a deadly disease treated by harsh chemicals and radiation. We then might wonder what caused it; was it smoking, too many x-rays, using the cell phone or something else? Rarely do we think it might be due to…