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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.

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Kevin Robertson, DO, and Philip O’Halloran, MD, were on the Utah slopes a few years ago hoping to cross paths with other skiers when an idea occurred to them. It would be useful to have a Web site linking people who participate in various physical activities, such as skiing. In turn, this network could help people become more physically active and try out new activities. As an added benefit, it might help eliminate at least one excuse — not having an activity partner — that so many patients had given them for not getting off the couch.

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