Items Tagged ‘diabetic’
February 13, 2012
Standing at your desk may help you lose weight
James Levine has reviewed the statistics: One in three Minnesota adults is either diabetic or prediabetic, and one in four is obese. And he thinks he’s found the underlying ailment: “The sitting disease.” “Sitting is sort of the new smoking,” the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist said recently before participating in an experiment designed to tackle so-called […]
Tags: diabetic, James Levine, obese, prediabetic, the sitting disease
January 27, 2012
Office-dwellers stand up to ‘sitting disease’
Dr. James Levine has reviewed the statistics: One in three Minnesota adults is either diabetic or pre-diabetic, and one in four is obese. And he thinks he’s found the underlying ailment: “the sitting disease.” “Sitting is sort of the new smoking,” the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist said Wednesday on the eve of an experiment designed to […]
Tags: diabetic, Dr. James Levine, obese, pre-diabetic, the sitting disease