Editing Metabolic syndrome (section)

==Prevention==
Various strategies have been proposed to prevent the development of metabolic syndrome. These include increased [[physical activity]] (such as walking 30 minutes every day),<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Lakka TA, Laaksonen DE |date=February 2007 |title=Physical activity in prevention and treatment of the metabolic syndrome |journal=Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=76–88 |doi=10.1139/h06-113 |pmid=17332786}}</ref> and a healthy, reduced calorie diet.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Feldeisen SE, Tucker KL |date=February 2007 |title=Nutritional strategies in the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome |journal=Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=46–60 |doi=10.1139/h06-101 |pmid=17332784}}</ref>  Many studies support the value of a healthy lifestyle as above. However, one study stated these potentially beneficial measures are effective in only a minority of people, primarily because of a lack of compliance with lifestyle and diet changes.<ref name="katzmaryk" /> The [[International Obesity Taskforce]] states that interventions on a sociopolitical level are required to reduce development of the metabolic syndrome in populations.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=James PT, Rigby N, Leach R |date=February 2004 |title=The obesity epidemic, metabolic syndrome and future prevention strategies |journal=European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=3–8 |doi=10.1097/01.hjr.0000114707.27531.48 |pmid=15167200 |s2cid=36797932}}</ref>

The [[Caerphilly Heart Disease Study]] followed 2,375 male subjects over 20 years and suggested the daily intake of an Imperial [[pint]] (~568 mL) of milk or equivalent dairy products more than halved the risk of metabolic syndrome.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Elwood PC, Pickering JE, Fehily AM |date=August 2007 |title=Milk and dairy consumption, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome: the Caerphilly prospective study |journal=Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health |volume=61 |issue=8 |pages=695–98 |doi=10.1136/jech.2006.053157 |pmc=2652996 |pmid=17630368}}</ref> Some subsequent studies support the authors' findings, while others dispute them.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Snijder MB, van der Heijden AA, van Dam RM, Stehouwer CD, Hiddink GJ, Nijpels G, Heine RJ, Bouter LM, Dekker JM |date=April 2007 |title=Is higher dairy consumption associated with lower body weight and fewer metabolic disturbances? The Hoorn Study |journal=The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=989–95 |doi=10.1093/ajcn/85.4.989 |pmid=17413097 |doi-access=free}}</ref> A systematic review of four [[randomized controlled trials]] said that, in the short term, a [[Paleolithic diet|Paleolithic nutritional]] pattern improved three of five measurable components of the metabolic syndrome in participants with at least one of the components.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Manheimer EW, van Zuuren EJ, Fedorowicz Z, Pijl H |date=October 2015 |title=Paleolithic nutrition for metabolic syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition |volume=102 |issue=4 |pages=922–32 |doi=10.3945/ajcn.115.113613 |pmc=4588744 |pmid=26269362}}</ref>