Word: insulin
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WAIST Your belt size may have more to do with your health than your vanity. New research showed that a large waist is associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome--a precursor condition to cardiovascular disease and diabetes--in children and adults. A study of 27,270 men found that thick-in-the-middle guys--with 40-in.-to-62-in. waists--are 12 times as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes as men measuring 29 in. to 34 in. around. Studies also supported the contention of many experts that the waist-to-hip ratio is a more accurate measure...
Psychiatrist: The (schizophrenia) drugs are like insulin for diabetes. Whitaker: No, they're not - you have no confirmed biological problem. Psychiatrist: O.K., that's true. Whitaker: So why say it? Psychiatrist: Well, it gets people to take their drugs...
...Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery in the city of Enugu. Akunyili's sister Vivian, a diabetic, died in 1988, a victim of fake insulin...
...replacement for fossil fuels, for example, and, says Patrinos, "there are already bugs out there that produce hydrogen." If gene prospectors could isolate the responsible gene, he explains, and splice it into a common bacterium, just as genetic engineers have done for years with the gene that produces human insulin, "we can duplicate it on industrial scales...
...chemistry of fat itself. In most parts of the body, fat is packed on under the skin and over the muscle. But fat around the middle also gets stored beneath muscle. This gut fat is far more metabolically active than peripheral fat, releasing inflammatory molecules that contribute to insulin resistance, diabetes and hypertension. Exercise may be a good idea, but until you lose the beer belly, you may still be putting yourself at risk...