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...simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over that of glucose. The result is a buildup of glucose levels in the blood, a hallmark of insulin resistance...
...what is hepatitis A, and what can you do to keep from getting it? Like other forms of hepatitis, it's an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus. The symptoms, which include fever, nausea, diarrhea, jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain and loss of appetite, usually clear up within a month or two. (Hepatitis B and C, by contrast, often cause chronic, incurable infections that can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.) Up to 200,000 Americans contract hepatitis A every year, often after eating shellfish taken from contaminated waters. But with our growing reliance on fresh foods...
...spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China is the only one of the 37 nations in the's western-Pacific region that requires its citizens to pay for routine childhood immunizations. "During the past 20 years of reform, the government only focused on economic development," says...
Xinmin is a village on the verge of extinction. Nearly every resident of this swampy, 1,000-strong hamlet in the central Chinese province of Hunan is infected by the parasitic worm Schistosoma japonicum. It spreads through the bloodstream, lays eggs in the liver and bladder, wriggles into the brain or embeds itself in the spine. Renal failure and paralysis may follow; death is painful and untimely. That is the grim fate awaiting Xinmin villager Wang Zengkun. The 45-year-old rice farmer first experienced the stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea that signal schistosomiasis three years ago. For a while...
...beer before liquor, never been sicker;” if you are lighter in weight, you are more likely to be a lightweight with alcohol (fancy that); and even if a party punch does not taste saturated with alcohol, it probably is—as your liver will be after a few cups...