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Know your metabolic risk with this free metabolic meter

If you are a bit overweight or obese, or just have tummy fat, you may want to know your metabolic risk. Thanks to the free online tools such as the W8MD's metabolic syndrome meter, you can know know your risk of metabolic problems with 5 easy steps. With just a few simple questions answered, you can get an idea about your risk and learn about ways to change it. Excess body weight an increase the risk of up to 50 medical problems including: prediabetes diabetes ✔cardiovascular disease or stroke ✔ hypertension or high blood pressure ✔ high cholesterol, especially high triglycerides and low good cholesterol ✔ gallbladder disease ✔ many types of cancer such as colon, breast, uterine and prostate cancers ✔ osteoarthritis ✔ sleep apnea and many more. Benefits of weight loss According to Dr. David Katz, MD, MPH, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center and of the Yale Preventive Medicine Center - a lot of the chronic medical problems we are dea...