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Continued From Protect Yourself From Diabetes

• Avoid trans fats.
In the Harvard study, women with a high intake of trans fats had a 40 percent higher risk
for diabetes. Listed as partially hydrogenated oil on food labels, trans fats are found in stick margarine, snack foods and store-bought baked goods.

• Have a glass of wine.
The Harvard study also found that moderate alcohol intake-about one drink a daylowered the odds by 44 percent.
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The Weight Connection
In a recent Harvard study involving 85,000 women, 61 percent of the diabetes cases that developed during the 16-year study period could be attributed to excess weight. But you don’t have to be obese, according to scientists at Kaiser Permanent Center for Health Research Northwest in Portland, Oregon. “In our study, there were moderately and even mildly overweight people who got diabetes before age 45,” says lead researcher Teresa Hillier, M.D. “The risk of early on set diabetes rose by 6 percent for every five to eight pounds of excess weight,” she says.

Interpreting Your Test
Getting a blood-glucose test is practically painless. Read more of The Weight Connection - Diabetes

You’re young, you’re fit

Why should you worry about diabetes?
New evidence shows it’s on the rise.

Last year, Pat Wysocki got some startling news: She had diabetes. As part of her first physical exam in four years, her doctor had ordered a variety of blood tests. “When I called for the results, I thought there must be a mistake. I felt perfectly fine, and besides, I was too young to have diabetes,” says the writer from New York, who was 38 at the time. At five feet ten and 185 pounds, Pat was moderately overweight, but she exercised regularly and her diet was low in fat.
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Continued From Eat For A Better Body - Part 2

8. Bones
What you need: Boron
Important for calcium absorption, this mineral also seems to play an intergral role in enhancing the activity of estrogen in cells, which is important for the information of strong bones, says th USDA’s ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota.

What to eat:
One to 2 milligrams per day of fruits and vegetables that contain boron, including grapes, pears, apples, peas and broccoli. Other good sources include peanut and raisins.

9. Joints
What you need: Copper Read more of Eat For A Better Body - Part 3

Continued From What’s Your Yoga Style? - Kundalini

3. Bikram
Who it’s for:
Yoga students looking for an unusual and challenging way to improve flexibility.

Mind-body benefits:
Bikram is done in a room heated to about 100 degrees, which warms the muscles so that you can ease into the poses, explains Jonathan Burbank, owner of Bikram Yoga in Boston. The series of 26 poses, repeated several times and in the same order, are each held for 10 seconds to one minute.

Take home move:
Half moon. After taking a hot shower to warm your muscles, stand with feet together, arms extended overhead, palms and fingers together. Read more of What’s Your Yoga Style? - Bikram

Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga - an easy guide to figuring out which class is the best for you.
There’s a reason yoga has become so popular: It creates long, lean muscles, promotes serious flexibility and works wonders on stress. But finding the right style can be tricky-as yoga’s appeal has grown, so have the classes being offered.

Ashtanga, for example, uses a fast pace to build stamina; iyengar focuses on alignment; and kundalini uses chanting and breathing to help you find your spiritual center. Read on to find which style suits you best, and get a taste of each with a move to try on your own.

1. HATHA
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Real women don’t just have curves, they also are smarter, live longer and give birth to smarter children, women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Going in at the waist is said to be a sign of intelligence which leads to brighter children, too. Women such as Nigella Lawson with a big difference between their waist and hip measurements scored significantly better in tests than those with leaner, straighter frames.

Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children. The bigger the difference between a woman’s waist and hips the better.
The study shows that men who admire women with hourglass figures do so because they are more intelligent and therefore produce more intelligent children than waif-like women or those of “apple-shaped” proportions. Read more of Curvy Women Live Longer and More Intelligent, Study Found

A new study finds that white women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women. African-American women may miss out on potentially lifesaving supplemental treatments for breast cancer that may prevent the cancer from returning. African-Americans whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes were less likely to have adjuvant cancer therapy than white women, the study showed. Adjuvant therapy is treatment given to kill remaining cancer cells, in addition to the primary therapy. Studies suggest adjuvant therapy may increase the chances of long-term survival.

“We have seen that African-American women are not getting the optimal therapy as often as white Americans,” says researcher Mousumi Banerjee, PhD, of the University of Michigan, in a news release. Read more of Black and White Women on Breast Cancer Treatment