Dairy: do or don't? (Quick Studies).Overweight young adults (aged 18 to 30) who reported eating dairy products at least 16 times a week were half as likely to develop insulin resistance Insulin Resistance Definition Insulin resistance is not a disease as such but rather a state or condition in which a person's body tissues have a lowered level of response to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that helps to regulate the level syndrome (also known as Syndrome X or the metabolic syndrome) over the next ten years than those who ate dairy less than ten times a week, according to a study at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . People who ate dairy at least 35 times a week had an even lower risk. Dairy had no impact on insulin resistance syndrome in leaner people. (Milk and, to a lesser extent, cheese, cream, and butter accounted for 90 percent of the dairy the people in the study consumed.) Fiber seemed to lower the risk of insulin resistance independently of dairy. Insulin resistance syndrome raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes. According to the researchers, participants had insulin resistance syndrome if they had at least two of the following signs: obesity, high blood pressure, high insulin or blood sugar, and high triglycerides Triglycerides Fatty compounds synthesized from carbohydrates during the process of digestion and stored in the body's adipose (fat) tissues. High levels of triglycerides in the blood are associated with insulin resistance. or low HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ("good") cholesterol. What to do: Stay lean (or lose excess weight) and stay active (even if you don't Even If You Don't is a single released by the band Ween in 2000 on Mushroom Records. Formats Enhanced CD single Includes the quicktime video of "Even If You Don't" directed by Matt Stone & Trey Parker of "South Park". lose weight). If you're overweight, it's worth upping your dairy and fiber intake, as long as you stick with low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese. But it's too early to say--based on one study--that dairy can make a difference. J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 287: 2081, 2002. |
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