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Obesity may be reduced by preventing immature fat cells (adipocytes) from developing into mature cells, and other studies have shown that capsaicin can decrease the amount of fat tissue and decrease fat levels in the blood.

Patient adherence to medical therapy has been called “the next frontier in quality improvement.”1 The need to focus on this issue is due to abundant evidence suggesting that adherence to chronic pharmacologic therapy is poor, leading to worsening disease severity and increased cost.

It is well known that people with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer, and now it seems that the risk extends to those with type 1 diabetes, researchers report.

Men who limited alcohol intake to less than a glass of wine a day lived about four years longer than those who consumed similar amounts of beer or spirits, researchers reported.

Metformin and glibenclamide are not teratogenic but that it is advisable to replace oral glucose lowering drugs with insulin when women book for pregnancy care to reduce perinatal mortality rates.

The countdown to diabetes and coronary heart disease may start earlier for women with prediabetes than for men.

Coffee, a well-established source of antioxidants, may also be a richer source of soluble dietary fiber than orange juice, researchers report.

Periodontal destruction can start very early in life in diabetes and becomes more prominent as children become adolescents.

University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a variant of a common blood protein, apolipoprotein C1, in people of American Indian and Mexican ancestry that is linked to elevated body mass index (BMI), obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

This is one of many studies that shows that 15 minutes of physical activity can do more then any drug in the market place and do it for FREE!