This Diva’s Not Afraid To Sing with Jennifer Hudson

When Oscar winner, Jennifer Hudson huffs and puffs she’s might not be able to  blown your house down but she can blow you away on stage.  But there’s one Broadway diva who’s not afraid of a showdown with J Hud.

Megan Hilty, one of the stars of the TV show Smash, is hoping for a high drama, all diva moment with Hudson to kick off next season.

“I hope we have an angry duet,” Hilty revealed. “I’d like to really duke it out with her. If I know anything about Ivy, other people’s success is a threat to her, especially the women in the business. So if I had to guess, I’d have to say that they probably don’t get along very well.”

While her character Ivy may be threatened by strong women, Hilty wouldn’t mind if Smash covered tunes from a Broadway musical all about brave girls: Wicked. “I feel like Wicked would be a really fun idea, especially as a little theater inside joke,” she said of the musical, which she previously starred in as Glinda. “Even something like a 9 to 5 cover, and have a little mini-reunion. I’ve been trying to get [9 to 5 co-star] Allison Janney on the show. I think she would be fantastic. If we got her and Stephanie Block, we could all do something fun.”

Smash returns for its second season in 2013.

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Men with Low Body Fat At Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

A New study reveals that individuals with low body fat may not be protected from diabetes and heart disease. In an analysis from the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School (HMS), scientists found a gene, called IRS1, that is linked to lower body fat. However, the gene is also associated with higher glucose and cholesterol levels, putting individuals with low body weight at risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H., a senior scientist at the Institute for Aging Research and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School said,. “People, particularly men, with a specific form of the gene are both more likely to have lower percent body fat, but also to develop heart disease and type 2 diabetes. In simple terms, it is not only overweight individuals who can be predisposed for these metabolic diseases.”

The scientists explain IRS1 leads to the kind of fat that collects around organs instead of under the skin. The gene keeps people’s waistlines slim, but for those with the variant, fat ends up in more dangerous places. Kiel says the result of fat around the organs is higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

He says genes not only determine total body fat, but they also determine …”what kind of fat you have. Some collections of fat, such as the kind located just under the skin, may actually be less harmful than the type located in the abdominal cavity, which may increase the risk of developing metabolic disease.”

Since men store less fat than women, they may be more sensitive to the way fat is distributed, making them more susceptible to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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