Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P.

"Limit your sugar intake. A diet high in sugar can increase the risk of developing adult-onset diabetes."

Dr. Legato is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in women's health. She is the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. This is the first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focused solely on gender-specific medicine. The science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. Dr. Legato has spent her research career doing cardio-vascular research on the structure and function of the cardiac cell, which is supported by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Legato writes for the scientific and lay communities.

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