The syndrome

摘要

Syndrome X has crept up on 95 million Americans - even without aliens. Help your customers kuncover the paths to metabolic (and glucose) health. Here's how. Have you put on some weight, especially in your belly? Are your blood fats unbalanced, both cholesterol and triglycerides? What about high blood pressure — have a bit of that, too? Are you excessively familiar with your cable channel listings, leading a relatively sedentary lifestyle? Is your fasting blood glucose reading over 140 (mg/dL)? Doesyour doctor say you have too much uric acid in your blood (maybe protein too)? Does this describe one of your customers? According to the Jacksonville, Fla.-based American Association of Endocrinologists (AACE), it describes Insulin Resistance Syndrome(also called Dysmetabolic Syndrome X, Metabolic Syndrome, or just Syndrome X) as "an epidemic condition that is estimated to affect one in three Americans," which translates, in fact, into almost 95 million customers.