Items Tagged ‘lifestyle diseases’

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