[WATCH]: Vital: Exercise and Metabolic Syndrome (09.05.2012)

INTRO: Move for health day tomorrow: Exercise to reduce risk for metabolic syndrome: Metabolic syndrome is a name for a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Metabolic syndrome is becoming more and more common in the United States. Researchers are not sure whether the syndrome is due to one single cause, but all of the risks for the syndrome are related to obesity. The two most important risk factors for metabolic syndrome are: Extra weight around the middle and upper parts of the body (central obesity). The body may be described as "apple-shaped." Insulin resistance, in which the body cannot use insulin

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