More than half of American adults 60 and older now have metabolic syndrome. The symptoms of metabolic syndrome include high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormally high cholesterol or triglyceride levels. It is a well proven risk factor for heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. If you have two or more of the symptoms, you should probably speak with your doctor about a diagnosis.
The good news is that a healthy lifestyle will reduce your risk of developing metabolic syndrome and reduce or eliminate your symptoms if you have it. The Mayo Clinic recommends regular exercise, reducing your weight to within the healthy range for your height and age, a healthy diet (such as the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and the Mediterranean diet), quitting smoking and reducing stress levels.
Hmmmm, isn't that pretty much the advice for any health problem?
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