In the study, led by Serena Tonstad, African-American participants who followed a vegetarian diet and exercised at least three times a week significantly reduced the risk of diabetes. Vegan African-Americans had a 70% reduced risk of diabetes, while lacto-ovo African-American vegetarians, had a 53% reduced risk of diabetes. In addition, …
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World Getting More Obese, US #1
Obesity is not just a U.S. issue although Americans are still the fattest, a Gallup poll indicates. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which tracks obesity in America, Britain and Germany monthly, found Americans are in far worse shape than are Britons and Germans. Twenty-five percent of Americans are obese, compared with …
Read More »Red Wine Agent Changes Metabolism
A red wine ingredient may protect people at risk of heart disease and diabetes by changing their metabolism, according to research. In the first study of its kind, scientists analyzed the biological effects of resveratrol supplements in 11 obese men. They found that after just 30 days the men experienced …
Read More »Tight Glycemic Control Won’t Cut Diabetes Patients’ Heart Failure Risk
Intensive blood glucose control won’t reduce the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes — and tight control using a thiazolidinedione may actually increase the risk….
Read More »Closed-Loop Insulin Pump Effective and Safe in Pregnancy
Insulin delivery with a closed-loop system was at least as effective as continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in a UK study of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes.…
Read More »Lilly and Amylin Agree to End Diabetes Alliance
They announced an agreement to terminate their alliance for exenatide and resolve the outstanding litigation between the companies….
Read More »New Drug Cuts Blood Supply to Fat Cells for Weight Loss without Exercise
Adipotide basically reduces the blood supply specifically to fat cells, causing them to simply wither away.…
Read More »FDA Warns Fenofibric Acid May Not Cut Cardiac Risk
The FDA has ordered that the label for fenofibric acid (Trilipix) be changed to indicate that the lipid-lowering drug has not been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke.…
Read More »Sleep Apnea Increases Hypos and Autonomic Dysfunction for Diabetes Patients
Those with the sleep disorder who also had poor autonomic function had significantly more hypoglycemia than those with more normal function.…
Read More »Exercise Impact Lessened Slightly by Metformin in Prediabetes
For men and women with prediabetes, insulin sensitivity increases to a similar extent with exercise training, metformin, or a combination of the two, with metformin impacting slightly on the effect of exercise.…
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