Sleep apnea may be the result of how much fat is in your diet.

A growing body of evidence points to insulin resistance in humans as one cause of sleep apnea. When researchers fed nonobese rats a high-fat diet they developed insulin resistance and sleep apnea.  A second group of rats fed the same diet but given metformin (which increases insulin receptor sensitivity), prevented the elevated insulin levels and the sleep apnea.

PositiveTip: Choose a lowfat diet and keep the saturated fats to a minimum, especially from animal sources.

Source: http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v15/n6/full/oby2007169a.html

Exercise can help reverse insulin resistance.

High-fat diets raise enzyme levels, reducing insulin's normal physiologial function. A study on rats has shown exercise inhibits the diet-induced insulin resistance that normally occurs.

PositiveTip: Exercise will help to normalize your insulin and other hormones. Daily walking is excellent, economical, and has a very low risk of injury.

Source: http://jp.physoc.org/content/577/3/997.full.pdf

Exercise and vegetarian diet prove to reduce abdominal fat.

A 24-week trial showed that exercising and eating a calorie-restricted vegetarian diet decreases abdominal fat, plasma leptin and oxidative stress markers while improving insulin sensitivity and reducing insulin resistance, compared to a conventional diabetic diet. Weight loss produces better insulin and leptin function. Since both leptin and insulin help to control food intake, weight loss brings better physiological control of weight and appetite.

Supplementation with Vitamin C and E may lower your resistance to diabetes and make you age faster.

You know exercise promotes longevity and helps control type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance? Did you think exercise and the use of antioxidants might be even better? Time to think again! A brand new study suggests otherwise.

An international team of researchers have discovered in a randomized trial, average insulin sensitivity was higher in those who were not taking any antioxidant supplements (1000-mg vitamin C and 400-IU vitamin E). Exercise raises reactive oxygen species (ROS), but also activates natural antioxidant systems. In the groups taking the antioxidant supplements the natural systems were blunted.