Exercised
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A hundred and fifty minutes of walking a week is probably not enough to lose much weight.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. —Mark Twain
By convention, someone has metabolic syndrome if they have most of the following characteristics: high levels of blood sugar, high levels of cholesterol, high blood pressure, and a large waist.
This one is easy: cardio is better than weights for obesity. As we will see later, weights help counteract some of the metabolic consequences of obesity, but cardio is better for preventing and reversing excess weight. One randomized control study that compared the effects of cardio and weights on overweight and obese adults found that individuals prescribed just weights barely lost any body fat but those prescribed twelve miles a week of running lost substantial amounts of fat, especially harmful organ fat.
Forgive me for asking, but have you ever sipped another person’s urine? Disgusting as that may sound, if you were a doctor back in the old days, you’d be a pee connoisseur. As a matter of routine, you would collect your patients’ “liquid gold” to examine its taste, color, smell, and consistency. Much of what doctors discerned from urine was nonsense, but an exception was its sweetness. The English physician Thomas Willis (1621–1675) coined the term “diabetes mellitus” (Latin for “honey sweetened”), what we now call diabetes, from urine that was “wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”14