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Entries for April 23rd, 2007

Could you get diabetes?

Here are lifestyle factors that can raise your risk. No time for breakfast and too much TV time can trigger diabetes. Fitness magazine, in its April edition, reports on nine surprising diabetes risk factors. The disease affects 21 million people in the United States. Skipping breakfast increases our risk 30 percent to 50 percent, and [...]

Exercise may lower diabetes risk in older adults

Resistance training may not only help to build muscle in older people, it may also be warding off type 2 diabetes, a new study demonstrates. Thirty-six men and women in their early 60s experienced significant improvements in glucose tolerance after a 12-week resistance-training regimen, Dr. Wayne W. Campbell of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, [...]