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metabolic syndrome

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Seminar: Management through Lifestyle Change

July 27, 2009

A few years ago, we wrote a blog post about a book called Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Still Ignore by Elizabeth Vliet, MD. “It’s for those women that have repeatedly heard ‘it’s all in your head’ from their doctors,” wrote our blogger Gina, about her diagnosis with Polycystic Ovarian [...]

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Blood Pressure in People with Metabolic Syndrome More Sensitive to Salt Intake

February 16, 2009

Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of developing  type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.  One is five people are affected, and that rate increases as people age. Salt reduction in people with metabolic syndrome may help play a role in early intervention, and more effective treatment. Now a study from China examines the connection between metabolic syndrome and blood pressure sensitivity.  Metabolic syndrome was [...]

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Healthy Eating: Chicken Soup a Healthy Food for Pandas at China's Wuhan Zoo

October 3, 2008

People have sworn by their grandmother’s chicken soup to fight off fall and winter colds, and some research* has actually studied the potential health benefits of the age-old folk remedy. Now even Pandas are responding to a healthy dose of chicken soup! CNN reports that over-stressed pandas at the Wuhan Zoo in central China (due [...]

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Building Self Esteem for Healthy Weight Loss

September 12, 2007

What are you looking for — a healthy weight loss program to lose the weight that’s driven you nuts for too long? Or do you seek a type 2 diabetes program because your doctor has told you to lose weight to better manage your diabetes? Or do you have PCOS (also known as PCO) and [...]

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Screaming (Louder) to be Heard

February 20, 2007

There is a book that we carry here at Green Mountain called “Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Still Ignore” by Elizabeth Vliet, MD.  The title pretty much says it all, and it’s for those women that have repeatedly heard “it’s all in your head” from their doctors. One of those [...]

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