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Eating Too Much-Not Always
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight gain is not always due to eating too much and exercising too little. A common condition could be the problem-

Treating PCOS - Current Trends
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] As our understanding of PCOS changes, so do our treatment options. Here is an overview of the latest management trends.

Metformin: A Beginner's Guide
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Metformin has been used for decades to treat diabetes and its related conditions. Despite the discovery of newer drugs, it still remains the first line treatment for type two diabetes, and is used in the management of polycystic ovarian syndrome and other insulin resistance-related conditions. Here's why-

About Insulin Resistance
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Insulin resistance is a difficult concept to understand. This article summarises the condition, and explains why it is so important to diagnose...

PCOS - Pitfalls in Diagnosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] PCOS, or polycystic ovarian syndrome, affects around 5 - 10% of women of childbearing age. It is one of the leading causes of infertility. But it remains one of the most difficult conditions to diagnose...

The Importance of Diagnosing Metabolic Syndrome
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Metabolic syndrome comprises a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, but the importance of diagnosing the condition lies not only in the treatment of these risk factors.

Diabetics - Get Your Family Tested!
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] One of the most important things that needs to be done once someone has been diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes, is to get everyone else in the immediate family tested too.

Eating With Type 2 Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Type 2 diabetes has always been treated with diets based on high "complex carbohydrate" intake. Find out why this type of diet seldom works, and may actually aggravate high blood glucose levels, and what can be done about it.

Losing Weight Could Save Your Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone knows that being overweight is not a pleasant situation to be in. But did you know that being overweight is associated with significant, serious health risks? Losing weight really could save your life!

The Trouble With Gout
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Gout has been a recognised clinical entity for hundreds, even thousands of years. The association between certain foods and flare-ups of gout is well documented. But recent studies are proving many of these preconceptions about diet and gout wrong.

Everyone Knows that Insulin Resistance Makes You Fat - Don't They?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Insulin resistance affects at least one in four people. It makes weight loss almost impossible, and weight gain ridiculously easy. Find out why conventional high carbohydrate diets don't work for people with insulin resistance.

Resisting Insulin Resistance
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It seems that almost every day a new association between diet and health is discovered. Certain food groups have been shown in reliable studies to decrease the risk of various conditions. But these food-health relationships are unreliable and unpredictable. Fortunately there is one condition that will always improve with dietary and lifestyle modifications, and that is Insulin Resistance, a common condition which is estimated to affect at least one in four people!