Weight loss from exercise or calorie restriction improved glucose tolerance in nonobese, healthy men and women, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, even after three plus years.

November 2006 – Diabetes is a growing health problem. Giving antioxidants is recognised as one way of helping people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels.

November 2006 – Abdominal obesity increased more than 65 percent among boys and almost 70 percent among girls between 1988 and 2004. The finding of growing girth is significant because abdominal obesity has emerged as a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes risk than the more commonly …

November 2006 – A generation ago, there was just one kind of pill that could help people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels down. But today, so many new options are available that it’s almost dizzying. Advertisements for the new medicines seem to be everywhere, and more new medicines …

October 2006: Three studies presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology demonstrated that transoral endoscopic surgical techniques ? entering the abdomen through oral cavities such as the nose and mouth ? can be successful in both bovine and human patients. Further, patients who underwent …

A team of scientists in Britain are in the process starting the first study of a closed loop system with 12 children with Type 1 diabetes. The device if successful promises to transform the lives of scores of youngsters.

Acomplia™ (rimonabant) approved in Mexico to treat obese/overweight patients with associated type 2 diabetes or dyslipidemia or to help them improve glycemic control on background of conventional antidiabetic treatment.

The results of an international study suggests that a compound found in red wine gave mice longer and healthier lives and also countered some of the effects of a high-calorie diet.

Control group had lost a mean of 8.3% of their body weight.