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ORAL FIX The drug troglitazone (a one-a-day pill) helps Type 2 diabetics control their blood-sugar level. On average, patients taking troglitazone can cut their insulin dose by a third; many can give up the shots altogether...
BURN IT UP! Physical activity, even just a daily walk, not only helps your heart, it may also prevent diabetes. How? Burning calories, say researchers, helps your body use insulin more efficiently...
...viable solution to depression is insulting to the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community who suffer from an illness that has its roots in neurochemistry. Those who must seek therapeutic treatment or take prescription medication to ward off relapse into depression, much as a diabetic depends on insulin to prevent illness, do not see relationships as a quick-fix to their situation...
...Zone. They scoff at Sears' contention that ancient people shrank in height after the invention of bread. "Give me a break," says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Those kinds of statements are not good science." What about the insulin-makes-you-fat thesis? "Ridiculous," says Stanford University endocrinologist Gerald Reaven. The secret to weight loss, he says, still lies with cutting calories. In fact, skeptics argue, when Zone dieters do lose weight, it's only because the Zone's rigid calculus delivers a high-bulk, low-calorie diet--hardly a revolutionary...
Sears' approach goes against the grain in more ways than one. His books contradict the prevailing orthodoxy of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. He contends that an excess of carbs forces the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...