The current city minimum wage is $10.10 per hour. Georgiaâs minimum wage is $5.15. The federal minimum wage is $7.25. The council also approved a policy statement committing itself to increasing the cityâs minimum wage to $14 per hour starting July 1, 2018 and $15 per hour starting July 1, 2019.
Metabolic disease. Metabolic disease, any of the diseases or disorders that disrupt normal metabolism, the process of converting food to energy on a cellular level. Thousands of enzymes participating in numerous interdependent metabolic pathways carry out this process.
IDF Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome. The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. A quarter of the worldâs adults have metabolic syndrome. 2  People with metabolic syndrome are twice as likely to die from, and three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome. 3  People with metabolic syndrome have a five-fold greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.