Prediabetes: A Wakeup Call Before Its Too Late
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Preventative Health
Prediabetes: A Wakeup Call Before Its Too Late
Nearly a third of American adults have a potentially chronic disease, and nine out of ten of them don’t even know it yet. Eighty-six million American adults have prediabetes, a condition that increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. What is prediabetes? Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that plays a major role in metabolism. During digestion carbohydrates—sugars and starches—are broken down into glucose and then enter the bloodstream.…
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Preventative Health
Exercise and Cancer Survivorship
It is widely known—and repeatedly proven—that exercise goes a long way toward preventing and treating chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Less frequently studied are the effects of exercise on cancer—from prevention to survivorship—though this is now recently changing. A Correlation between Exercise and Survivorship Among breast cancer survivors, physical activity after diagnosis has consistently been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-specific mortality. A recent meta-analysis…