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Weight
The newest area, and the last of the seven to open: the midsection that changed without the diet changing. It starts with the waist rather than the scale, because the waist is where the risk is measured. Three articles are published.
Start with the guide
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Belly Fat in Men: Measure the Waist, Not Just the Scale
The 40-inch line and the lower lines experts have proposed, why the deep fat matters more than the scale, what two small trials of abdominal exercises found, and what did reduce the deep fat.
What the waist travels with
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Fatty Liver Disease: Silent, Common, and What Helps
An estimated 1 in 4 U.S. adults, usually without symptoms. The new names, the two forms, the weight-loss targets for the liver, and the two drugs the FDA approved that some government pages still don't mention.
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Metabolic Syndrome: Five Numbers, Three Are Enough
Waist, blood pressure, fasting sugar, triglycerides and HDL. Three results each described as only slightly high can meet the definition, and the blood pressure line already counts as high blood pressure on its own.
The sections next door
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Heart
Blood pressure and cholesterol are two of the five metabolic syndrome numbers. Seventeen articles on what the readings mean and which emergencies get confused.
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Energy
Including prediabetes, where the fasting sugar has already crossed the metabolic syndrome line. Sixteen articles on the tiredness that will not lift.