Stone Hearth News, February 3, 2012 reports:
Obesity
is the new smoking...Obesity is becoming as big a hazard worldwide,
comparable to cigarette smoking. It contributes to avoidable and
premature deaths from cardiovascular disease, cancer and other causes.
Obesity is also the leading avoidable cause of the current epidemic of
type 2 diabetes in the United States.
Today in the U.S. 40
percent of adults age 40 and over have metabolic syndrome, a
constellation of obesity, lipid abnormalities, hypertension and insulin
resistance, a precursor of diabetes.
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People
must keep moving, exercise a weekly amount of 180 minutes per week...in
whatever increments that may be...such as 30 minutes 6 days per week.
We will keep posting suggestions.
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