(2-AUDIO CD DISC SET) The Most Important Anti-Aging Initiative: Metabolic Syndrome X

While an overweight body status is known to cause premature death and disability, modern medicine continues often to pursue weight loss nostrums, with a frequent unwillingness to treat the underlying metabolic consequences of obesity. The killer component of obesity is often Metabolic Syndrome X, where an expanded waistline is variably associated with hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and hyperinsulinemia. Obesity must be viewed as a complex diathesis where a constellation of metabolic events produce a wide range of diseases often as a consequence of insulin resistance. About 70 million Americans have Syndrome X, which is clearly linked to the commonest causes of death or premature morbidity. Anti-aging medicine must focus on Advanced Preventive Medicine to combat Syndrome X which has become the most important public health initiative for western society. Continuing to perceive obesity as primarily a cosmetic issue is retarding improvements in the health of the nation. Syndr