4 Advances in Diabetes

By Elena Rover
Good news for families managing diabetes.
From Reader's Digest
Diabetes: Fatty Liver and Disease Risk
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Reason to Sweat
Even fat that you don't see can kill you: If you're overweight and diabetic, doctors say, you probably have a fatty liver, which raises your risk of ills that go beyond that organ, including heart disease. But a recent study found that moderate biking, walking, or running three times a week, plus resistance training, trimmed fat in volunteers' livers by as much as 40 percent. "It's an added reason to exercise," says Kerry Stewart, EdD, an exercise physiologist at Johns Hopkins University.
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