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Mediterranean diet plus nuts may fight metabolic syndrome

December 09, 2008
The Mediterranean-style diet, which is full of olive oil, fish, vegetables, and fruits, has once again been linked to an improvement in metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that include high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and abdominal obesity, and the condition puts sufferers at risk for heart disease. But researchers found that a Mediterranean-style diet that included 30 grams of mixed nuts daily helped patients lower their high triglycerides a... Read more »

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Foods Worse than Table Sugar? You Don't Want to Know
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert

...glycemic index (GI), which is simply a measure of how high blood sugar is raised by a standard... Read more »

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Heart Disease Diet: Do You Have a "Wheat Belly"?
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert

...Along with this pattern comes high blood pressure, high blood sugar, diabetes and pre-diabetes,... Read more »

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Nutritional considerations during steroid treatment-Part 1
By Amy Thomas , Health Expert

...treatment include protein breakdown, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, sodium retention, and... Read more »

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Diabetes Awareness Month: Understanding the Link Between Heart Disease and Diabetes
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert

... 3) Cholesterol and triglycerides levels Having high cholesterol or triglyceride levels, as... Read more »

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Here's To Your Heart Health!
By Christina Bruni , Health Expert

...specific health indicators: excess abdominal fat; high blood sugar; high triglycerides; low... Read more »

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Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease: Highlights
...disease. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and obesity. Obesity itself is also a risk factor for gallstone... Read more »
Diabetes Diet: Major Food Components in a healthy diabetic diet
...roles.In other words, the amount of carbohydrates eaten (rather than fats or proteins) will determine how high blood sugar levels will rise. There are two options for counting carbohydrates:... Read more »
Type 1 Diabetes
...had diabetes for a number of years. In one study of people with type 1 diabetes, high glucose levels (hyperglycemia) were associated with slower brain function, including less verbal fluency and... Read more »
Stroke Risk Factors: Heart Disease and Stroke
...with high blood pressure, who are sedentary, overweight, smoke, or have diabetes. Older age is also linked with higher rates of post-stroke dementia.Younger Adults. Younger people are not immune,... Read more »
Periodontal Disease: Complications
...disease, bleeding from every tooth.) Acute coronary syndrome, high blood pressure (hypertension), and high cholesterol have also been associated with periodontal disease.Periodontal disease has... Read more »

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