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Are you at risk for diabetes and obesity?

October 1, 2010 in Diabesity | 32 comments

This turned into a pretty long article, so I'm going to provide a summary up-front for those of you who are time-challenged: Genetics play a significant role in type 2 diabetes and obesity; but, recent evidence shows that genetics alone don't cause diabetes without environmental triggers and a leaky gut. The bad news is that almost everyone is exposed to these triggers and leaky guts are not uncommon; but the good news is that a leaky gut can be healed, ...
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Not all fat people get diabetes, and not all diabetics are fat

September 17, 2010 in Diabesity | 26 comments

In the last article we learned that type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is characterized by chronic inflammation. We also learned that while inflammation often precedes the development of obesity and T2DM, obesity and T2DM contribute to inflammation - creating a vicious cycle of metabolic damage. In this article we're going to review the complex and sometimes murky relationship between body weight and type 2 diabetes. There's a strong association between obesity and T2DM in the scientific ...
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How to increase your risk of heart disease

August 5, 2008 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 18 comments

Easy! Just follow Dr. Steinberg's recent recommendations. Dr. Daniel Steinberg, author of "The Cholesterol Wars", has just issued new recommendations proposing that "aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease." In a review article published in the August 5, 2008 issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation, Steinberg and his colleagues state that "with a large body of evidence proving ...
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