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Type 2 Diabetes Made Simple – Meet George!

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Hi there. My name is Adipocyte-6722427, but you can call me George. I’m pretty famous. You can even look me up on Google. Not George of course – there are too many Georges. Try Adipocyte.

I’m a body cell. In fact I’m a body cell in YOUR body or could be. I’m one of several billion other cells in your body. In my particular case, I just happen to be a fat cell. Being a fat cell isn’t the most fun. We take a lot of flack from other body cells who think they’re better than us. Even those guys down in the waste department look down their noses at us. I don’t know why “cells” have to be snooty. Why can’t we all just get along? They’d be in big trouble if us fat cells weren’t around. We do a lot of important stuff. Besides, we have feeling too. It’s not nice to be called names or be laughed at. Read the rest of this post

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Filed under Weight Loss
Mar 28, 2010

Missing Link Finally Found Between Obesity and Diabetes

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Source -Newswise

Obesity is probably the most important factor in the development of insulin resistance, but science’s understanding of the chain of events is still spotty. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have filled in the gap and identified the missing link between the two. Their findings, to be published in the June 21, 2009 advance online edition of the journal Nature, explain how obesity sets the stage for diabetes and why thin people can become insulin-resistant. Read the rest of this post

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Jun 22, 2009

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