The age-old maxim “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper” may in fact be the best advice to follow to prevent metabolic syndrome, according to a new study….

Light and moderate alcohol consumption was associated with lower rates of cardiovascular mortality than complete abstention, in a new study of …

Published results from the LEAD 6 extension study showed the efficacy and safety of switching from exenatide, taken twice a day, to once-daily Victoza®.  Results show…

Taxes of a few percent on sugary drinks are unlikely to reduce consumption or improve children’s health noticeably, researchers found.…

I was giving a recent talk to some medical professionals and mentioned that our country’s largest export was diabetes. Now there is a new report indicating that China has overtaken both the US and India as the country with the highest number of diabetes patients. (See this week’s Item #14.) …

Important new information about the OneTouch® PingTM Glucose Management System, Animas® 2020, 1250, and 1200 Insulin Pumps: We have learned of several cases in which pumpers have accidentally delivered excessive insulin when they ignored pump warnings and did not disconnect from their infusion set before loading the pump cartridge. In …

Food Prices Affect Weight Management: Taxes on these kinds of foods or elimination of subsidies could be helpful approaches to promote health according to these data. This 20-year longitudinal study included 12,123 respondent days from 5,115 participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. “The real …

Maple Syrup Reduces Cancer, Diabetes Risk: Maple syrup can substantially slow the growth of cancerous cells in several cancers and help reduce the risk of diabetes, U.S. researchers found. Navindra Seeram of the University of Rhode Island found 13 new antioxidant compounds that were not known to exist in syrup …

As many as 13 million Americans may have undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes and undetected chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a new study….

Lu Wang, MD, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and colleagues write, “The obesity epidemic is a major health problem in the United States….