Re: Metabolic syndrome -- don't blame the belly fat

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Hi folks:

" .............. The good news, according to Shulman, is that

insulin resistance in skeletal muscle can be countered through a

simple intervention: exercise. "

Or, of course, by CR.

Rodney.

> Metabolic syndrome -- don't blame the belly fat

> Mon, 2007-07-16 14:58 — BJS

>

> Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been

> implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a

> cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack

> risk factors: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes

> in cholesterol.

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> The good news, according to Shulman, is that insulin resistance in

> skeletal muscle can be countered through a simple intervention:

> exercise.