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The results of the EU Childhood Obesity Program indicate that low-protein content in infant formula may have metabolic, endocrinal and developmental benefits for babies – which may also have an impact on obesity at a later age.

If your patients are going to start any new exercise program then they need to know how to avoid injuring and what to do about the inevitable muscle. Dr. Sheri Colberg has an excerpt from her book The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, …

Have you ever had a patient ask, how much do our genes contribute to our risk of developing diabetes? Or, “Diabetes seems to run in my family. Am I doomed to developing the disease too?” Phil Wood DVM, MS, PhD gives us a way to answer in his feature Genetics …

We now might have a non-invasive way to measure beta-cell growth and apoptosis for determining effectiveness of new treatment therapies that can cause beta-cell regeneration of increase of beta-cell mass instead.

The stem cells that make the beta-cells May Not Exist!

If precursor beta-cells exist, then it can give focus to the development of innovative therapeutic techniques which can possibly stimulate the formation of new endogenous beta-cells.

Because internal deposits can cause trouble then really is what’s on the inside that counts and a lot of thin people might be in trouble.

Cardiovascular risk factors are suboptimally treated in diabetes, possibly because of the impression that there is a long delay between diagnosis and the development of macrovascular complications such as stroke.

More evidence that lower doses of aspirin are just as effective in preventing cardiovascular events as higher doses comes from a systematic review.

Mean HbA1c change from baseline was -2.9%, for patients with an HbA1c value greater than 11%.