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Nutritional Support for Insulin Resistance (Metabolic Syndrome)
According to a national health survey, more than 1 in 5 American adults (47 million) and roughly 1 million adolescents have metabolic syndrome (aka: insulin resistance), and the number is rising. There is evidence that sub-clinical deficiencies in certain vitamins, minerals and antioxidants can significantly influence the development of metabolic syndrome and its symptoms...

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Every Person Before Developing Type 2 Diabetes Almost Always Has Pre-diabetes
What is Pre-diabetes? This is a fact that before developing diabetes mellitus type 2, almost always that patient develops Pre-diabetes condition. Though we will not diagnose that person as diabetic, but if he or she will not control his or her blood suger level, he will probably have diabetes mellitus in future. In pre-diabetes, blood sugar levels are in higher limits, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes mellitus. In USA only, more than 54 million people have pre-diabetes condition.During pre-diabetes damage to heart and circulatory system may already be occuring.

What Is Metabolic Syndrome X?
The Metabolic Syndrome X (or just metabolic syndrome) is condition that is characterized by a group of risk factors found in one person that increases the chances of coronary heart disease, stokes, type 2 diabetes (adult-onset diabetes) and other related modern diseases. The underlying causes of this disease are poor nutrition, overweight/obesity, physical inactivity and genetic factors.

Celebrities Participate in a National PSA for Down Syndrome
Today Co-Anchor Meredith Vieira, Actor John C. McGinley, Baseball Star Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals, Access Hollywood Co-Host Nancy O'Dell, Self-Advocate and former Actor from the past TV series Life Goes On Chris Burke, as well as other self-advocates will participate in a public service announcement, highlighting October as Down Syndrome Awareness Month. From September 26th- October 9th, Regal Entertainment Group will air the PSA in 6,700 screens across the country. The celebrities will speak about the abilities and achievements of all individuals with Down syndrome, in an effort to raise awareness for Down syndrome and the National Down Syndrome Society's National Buddy Walk program

Is Borderline Diabetes A Real Disease?

It can send a chill up anyone's spine being informed by your physician that you have borderline diabetes. This is a disease that can literally alter your life. But, each year, hundreds of thousands of patients go through that scenario. The number of people diagnosed with diabetes continually rises. At present, there are more than 18 million known case of diabetes in the U.S. It's calculated that there are somewhere around 6 million more people that have diabetes and are not aware of it. Diabetes remains a serious health problem costing patients billions of dollars in health care every year.

What exactly is borderline diabetes? Sometimes called pre-diabetes, it's a condition where a person has glucose levels between normal levels and levels that would identify them as diabetic. The reason that many people don't know they have the condition is that it's relatively free of symptoms. In a person with no signs of diabetes, the body produces insulin in order to assist the cells in breaking down foods into energy. In diabetics and pre-diabetics, however, either the body is unable to create insulin or it is unable to utilize the insulin. This is one reason why people with borderline diabetes tend to be tired much of the time. They are eating, but their body is unable to break down the food into usable energy.

Many doctors have stopped using the term borderline diabetes to describe this condition as, in their minds, a person who exhibits the symptoms of pre-diabetes is, in truth diabetic. and they see no real medical reason to obfuscate the diagnosis. They also feel that telling a person that he or she has borderline diabetes will cause the person to not take the diagnosis seriously - since it is only borderline. Others feel that the condition of these patients is more accurately described as insulin resistant or impaired glucose tolerance. Other doctors, however, still use the term and find it useful to keep the distinction between pre-diabetes and diabetes.

For medical care physicians that continue to use the term, borderline diabetes is diagnosed when a person's glucose level, as determined by glucose tests, fall between 100 to 125 milligrams per deciliter.

Unfortunately, in most cases, a person who has borderline diabetes will see the disease progress to diabetes. In some cases, however, with a change of eating habits and other healthy lifestyle changes, the disease will be reversed.

Many health experts believe that pre-diabetes is a preventable disease. Studies have shown a distinct correlation between the increase in the amount of fast foods that we eat and the new incidences of type II diabetes. Likewise, there is a correlation between our increasingly sedentary lifestyles with increases in the number of people diagnosed with diabetics. Making the defeat of diabetes even more urgent is that a person with pre-diabetes or diabetes is at greater risk for a host of other diseases including heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and more.

Fortunately, scientists and researchers have started to discover and catalog the many risk factors that predispose one towards getting diabetes. They are hopeful that, in the near future, diabetes will be looked upon as disease of the past.

Alice Saracho is webmaster and writer of http://www.diabetescausestreatments.com. Visit her site and find articles on symptoms of borderline diabetes as well as other information and products regarding diabetes.


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