Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome is the half-way stage to diabetes with increased weight, blood pressure and cholesterol. Metabolic Syndrome has become very common, and is now thought to affect up to a quarter of the population in the UK. It does not just indicate an increased risk for Diabetes , but also for High Blood Pressure , High Cholesterol , Heart Disease and Stroke .

Metabolic Syndrome is now the accepted term for the collections of symptoms that has previously been called Syndrome X or Insulin Resistance Syndrome or Impaired Glucose Tolerance.

Poor lifestyle is normally the cause of metabolic syndrome, due to poor diet, lack of exercise and being overweight. Attention to these causes can normally contain or reverse the problem.