An increased risk for colorectal cancer may exist among older women with high levels of serum glucose.

An ounce of mixed nuts daily may improve abdominal obesity, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure, among people with Metabolic Syndrome.

Drinking a barley extract-enriched beverage may help to improve insulin sensitivity and prevent against type 2 diabetes.

People with Metabolic Syndrome (obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia) are at increased risk of developing open-angle glaucoma.

Walking, jogging, and cycling may be key in the battle against metabolic syndrome, whereas resistance training has little impact.

Daily supplements of L-carnitine, an amino acid, may improve how the body handles glucose, and prevent spikes in blood sugar levels.

Consuming high-phosphate foods, such as biscuits, cakes, and sweets, increases cholesterol deposits on arterial walls, in a lab animal model.

Anthocyanins, antioxidant compounds in strawberries, decrease levels of inflammatory markers.

Research reveals that vegetarians are more than a third less likely to develop metabolic disease than meat eaters.

Daily dose of safflower oil improves cholesterol levels, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity and inflammation, in obese postmenopausal women with Type 2 diabetes.