Tag: Diabetes
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Your Checklist For Metabolic Syndrome
The Well Up Challenge – a journey to weight loss and wellness: Over the past year, Longevity has hosted a weight loss and wellness challenge which aims to improve the overall wellness of a group of overweight candidates over a nine-month period. Our panel of experts provided advice and support to the participants during this…
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Diet Soda Increases Belly Fat in Older People
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, indicates a direct link between the consumption of diet soda and an increase in abdominal obesity in people 65 years of age and older. Weight gain leads to a greater risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Metabolic Syndrome Metabolic Syndrome is the…