I was in the check-out lane at a grocery store yesterday and, as I was waiting, I couldn’t avoid noticing the headlines of the magazines available for impulse purchase. It seemed that every one of these had some way to "cure" obesity, diabetes or even prediabetes. I glanced over three …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration of the current obesity crisis with a discussion of prediabetes, the conditions which can lead to prediabetes including genetic disposition, and the possibility of preventing the onset of diabetes by acting quickly…. 

Oliver, aged 46, is found to have an abnormal lipid profile, during routine tests prior to employment abroad. Total cholesterol (TC) 6.5 mmol/L Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) 5.1 mmol/L High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) 0.9 mmol/L Triglycerides 1.4 mmol/L The patient is asymptomatic. What would you do? This patient …