Items Tagged ‘James Levine’

May 10, 2019

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 10, 2019

By Emily Blahnik

New York Times, In This Doctor’s Office, a Physical Exam Like No Other by Carl Zimmer — To scientists like Michael Snyder, chair of the genetics department at Stanford University, the future of medicine is data — lots and lots of data. He and others predict that one day doctors won’t just take your blood […]

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Tags: active shooter training, alzheimer's disease, Biofourmis, CABANA, Cancer, cancer drugs, CBD oil, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Chron's disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, clinical trials, COPD


June 1, 2012

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

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June 1, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]

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Tags: Advancing the Science, Arizona PBS, Arizona Republic, Bruce Johnson, Dr. Chet Rihal, Dr. James Levine, Erik Castle, James Levine, Mayo Clinic Human Integrative and Environmental Physiology Lab, Moe Bell, Mount Everest, MPR


February 13, 2012

Standing at your desk may help you lose weight

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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 […]

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Tags: diabetic, James Levine, obese, prediabetic, the sitting disease


February 7, 2012

Body and Soul | Get on your feet for better health

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Mayo Clinic’s James Levine thinks he has found the underlying ailment for adults who are diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese: “the sitting disease.”“Sitting is sort of the new smoking,” the endocrinologist said recently, on the eve of an experiment designed to tackle so-called “lifestyle” diseases.He and a team of researchers from Mayo and the University of […]

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Tags: James Levine, lifestyle diseases, the sitting disease, University of Minnesota


December 8, 2011

Is your desk a death trap?

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Our sedentary, office-bound lives are slowly killing us. Luckily, one British scientist thinks he has the answer. But will the ‘treadmill desk’ catch on? John Preston finds out.  In 2006, James Levine, a British scientist based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, conducted a very strange experiment. He wanted to measure something which goes by […]

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Tags: James Levine, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis - or NEAT


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