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Article: Metabolic Syndrome; Treatment.
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- NWHRC Health Center - General Women's Health
- Article date:
- November 14, 2006
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The cornerstone of treatment for metabolic syndrome is simple: improving your diet, restricting calories, losing weight and/or maintaining a normal body weight, and increasing levels of physical activity. One major study found that for every pound lost, the risk of metabolic syndrome decreased by 22 percent.
Don't try a crash diet, however; they don't work. Instead, the best approach is to reduce your total calories--by up to 1,000 calories a day, depending on your weight. You can cut out 500 calories a day, for instance, simply by skipping that Frappucchino and cutting out one large soda.
Cutting calories isn't enough, however, if you're after ...