Close to one million adolescents in the U.S.—or four percent—are affected by a cluster of cardiac risk factors known as metabolic syndrome that is proven to lead to the early onset of diabetes or heart disease, according to a study published in the Au
Recently, a large clinical trial, the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP),2 investigated whether diet and physical activity were more effective than the pharmaceutical metformin in preventing or delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes in subjects with impaire