In a column in the Huffington Post (5/24), Marki Flannery, president of Partners in Care, wrote, "More people than ever are living with type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes. According to recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diabetes affects 25.8 million Americans, or 8.3 percent of the population (including both diagnosed and undiagnosed … Continue reading CDC: More Americans Than Ever Are Living With Type 2 Diabetes
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Consuming Baked, Broiled Fish May Help Protect Against Heart Failure
The Washington Post (5/24, Stein) "The Checkup" blog reported that consuming baked or broiled fish may be beneficial for the heart, according to research published in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure. Investigators "analyzed data collected between 1991 and 2008 from 84,493 women participating in the federally funded Women's Health Initiative." The researchers found that individuals "who … Continue reading Consuming Baked, Broiled Fish May Help Protect Against Heart Failure
10 Fatloss Questions You Should Be Asking ( Part 1 )
[ Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. ] There's stuff you know. Then there's stuff you don't know. But the key to success in anything is the discovery of one other variable: The things you don't know you don't know. Think … Continue reading 10 Fatloss Questions You Should Be Asking ( Part 1 )
Coffee May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
Regular coffee consumption is associated with a striking decrease in fatal or metastatic prostate cancer, according to an analysis of long-term data from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Kathryn M. Wilson, ScD, with the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues led the new study, reported online May 17 … Continue reading Coffee May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
Even A Serious Health Scare May Not Be Enough To Get Patients To Improve Health Habits
In the Los Angeles Times (5/23) "The MD" column, Valerie Ulene, MD, a preventive medicine specialist, observes that "even a serious health scare may not be enough" to get patients to shake habits deleterious to their health, such as eating too much salt, smoking, drinking too much, or not exercising. This is the case, even though … Continue reading Even A Serious Health Scare May Not Be Enough To Get Patients To Improve Health Habits