Originally published December 29 2005
News station shares the cold hard facts of metabolic syndrome in America
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Pittsburgh-based news channel WPXI covers the issue of metabolic syndrome, which affects more and more Americans each year as body weight gets out of hand and the body builds up resistance to insulin.
An estimated 65 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight.
Many are being diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.
Every day we have access to more food than most of us need; fast foods and processed food especially.
Foods like cookies, fried cheese sticks and other quick meals items with transfats in them can wreak havoc on your body.
That, along with the fact that many of us get too little exercise is why more of us are being diagnosed with insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome.
These problems were discovered in 55-year-old Ruth Zupsic and in 7-year-old Levi Doyle.
Levi had symptoms that are included in the metabolic syndrome as its defined for adults.
This increased Levi's likelihood of having heart disease, diabetes and stroke down the road.
Those risk factors are elevated blood pressure, low levels of HDL or "good" cholesterol, and elevated triglycerides.
In women that's a waist more than 35 inches around.
Ruth was determined to not have diabetes and high blood pressure like her parents did.
Lisa Doyle, Levi's mother, did the same thing.
Levi had several symptoms of metabolic syndrome including one that not all patients have.
It is a dark brown discoloration around the back of his neck.
Lisa Doyle has changed the way her entire family eats.
Like Ruth, she shops for lowfat and sugarfree foods.
She also eats more fruits and vegetables and stays away from processed food.
She looks for foods with no transfats or processed oils often listed on the label as partially hydrogenated oil or "bad" cholesterol.
In January manufacturers will have to list transfats on their label.
While many manufacturers are already listing transfats on their labels some are not.
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