In the last 30 years the incidence of obesity has increased alarmingly and almost at the same time as the Metabolic Syndrome, which evolves to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) 1-6. In 2012, the International Diabetes Federation (IFD) estimated that more than
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