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Insulin resistance can be helped with diet, exercise

Dear Doctor: My yearly physical showed I have insulin resistance. I’m not sure I understand what that means. My doctor says I should stop eating sugar, and that I need to exercise more. Is that going to be enough to make this go away?

Dear Reader: When someone has insulin resistance, it means that their body is no longer efficient at accessing the sugars in the blood, known as glucose, to use for e…

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