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Athletes who ate fast food after a workout were able to complete exercises two hours later as easily as those who consumed post-workout dietary supplements, University of Montana researchers report. The study found the group consuming fast food had higher levels of muscle glycogen, an energy source, compared with study …

Lifestyle-based weight loss intervention trials achieve modest reductions in weight and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, according to a meta-analysis. From six studies comparing lifestyle intervention with usual care, the researchers found the pooled effect on weight (5,795 patients) to be −3.33 kg, and −0.29% on HbA1c (5,784 patients), with both …

Obesity is costly. Some of those costs are surprising ($2.5 billion wasted in gasoline). Others represent true injustice (obese black women earn 34% less than the rest of the workforce). But as significant as these diverse amounts are, they are almost incidental in comparison to the health care costs resulting …

A retrospective study of patients with type 2 diabetes taking metformin and sulfonylureas and newly treated with either a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitor or insulin as third-line therapy has found that adding insulin was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events compared with a DPP-4 inhibitor. For the …

High HbA1c, high-fasting glucose and impaired oral glucose tolerance are related to lower cardiorespiratory fitness levels, according to recent findings. Cardiorespiratory fitness also appears to be associated with pancreatic beta-cell insulin secretory compensation for changing insulin sensitivity. “The association provides additional evidence highlighting the importance of fitness in protection against …

Overweight individuals who were asked to walk on a treadmill for 15 minutes had lower cravings for sugary snacks than those who did not exercise, Austrian researchers reported in the journal PLOS ONE. European Journal of Endocrinology, March 2015  

Taking at least two courses of prescribed antibiotics was associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. The likelihood of getting diabetes increased by 8% after receiving two to five courses of penicillin. For patients who took two to five courses of quinolones, …

The average lifetime medical cost for type 2 diabetes in the U.S. is $283,000, making it the most expensive place to have the condition, according to a review. Two out of three new diabetes cases occur in low- and middle-income countries such as Mexico, India and China. By 2035, 592 …

All makers of insulin pumps should follow a standardized review and categorization procedure for analyzing problems with their products, the ADA and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes wrote in a joint statement published in the journal Diabetes Care. Although adverse event reports submitted by manufacturers to the …

Low serum vitamin D levels are more closely associated with diabetes than obesity is, claim Spanish researchers, who go on to suggest that vitamin D deficiency may be linked to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. They found that serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels are reduced in prediabetic and …