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What’s the Best Way to Better Abs?
Choosing Between Aerobic and Resistance Exercise for Type 2 Diabetes
Over the past several decades, type 2 diabetes has become a chronic disease of epidemic proportion. In fact, the American Diabetes Association reports that 19 million people have been diagnosed as diabetic, with over four times as many people estimated to be pre-diabetic (having a fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 125mg/dL). The impact of the elevated blood glucose level and the disease—which includes a host of complications not limited to stroke, blindness, and kidney disease—has prompted researchers to conduct studies centered around how to most effectively curb the development of type 2 diabetes. Exercise is a method consistently shown to be successful in the treatment and prevention of diabetes. Indeed, one topic of critical interest and importance to... (more)
Abdominal exercise devices are a $250 million-a-year industry. Liz heads up a Health Investigation into which device, if any, can give you better abs than the traditional -- and free -- crunch exercise. She enlists the help of Dr. Eric Sternlicht, president of Simply Fit - a nutrition and exercise consulting firm in Orange, California and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Sternlicht hooks electrodes to Liz’s abdomen to measure her muscle activity in the three abdominal muscle groups; upper rectus abdominis, lower abdominis and external obliques. Liz tries the Ab-Roller Plus, Ab Coaster, Torso... (more)