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...about being insulin resistant and having too much glucose in your blood? For reasons that researchers are still trying to figure out, having diabetes greatly increases your risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke. A man with diabetes appears to have the same risk of cardiovascular problems as a nondiabetic who has had a heart attack. A woman who develops diabetes loses the cardioprotective benefits of being female. And kids with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop heart disease in their...
...participation in social and religious clubs. Compared with men in the highest quartile on the social-network index, men in the lowest fourth had significantly greater blood levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, substances that are associated with inflammation and are believed to be markers for cardiovascular disease. Curiously, researchers found no such link between social well-being and heart disease risk among the women they studied. --By Sora Song
...industry and food scientists you described are not only filling the nation's plates but also loading us up with chemicals and fats and contributing to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. and abroad. We are exporting these artificial foods and thus fueling the rise of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and childhood obesity. The food industry focuses on increasing profits. Maybe food scientists can concoct something to protect us from the escalating health-care costs brought on by the commercial food trade. ANDREA C. BRESNICK Sharon, Mass...
...many ways, that is almost beside the point. "People forget they should be eating a nutritious, healthy diet for other reasons," says Barbara Rolls, professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University. "They go on these kooky weight-management fad diets, and they lose all sight of bone and cardiovascular health...
Using male and female subjects 50-years old and older from the “baby boomers generation,” Greene said she and her colleagues attempted to test those at high risk of diabetes and cardiovascular problems...