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Fifty-two percent of doctors tell their patients to exercise, but only 14 percent actually prescribe it.

Poor Prenatal Nutrition Permanently Damages Function of Insulin-producing Cells in the Pancreas The bottom line is that if you don’t have delivery of enough nutrients from the mother to the baby, the baby’s pancreatic cells will be programmed abnormally and sets the stage for type 2 diabetes later in life.

Deleterious effects of omitting breakfast on insulin sensitivity and fasting lipid profiles in healthy lean women.

Waist circumference (WC) correlates more strongly with several known cardiovascular risk factors than does body mass index (BMI).

Two injections of biphasic insulin aspart (70/30, is more effective then glargine.

According to a feasibility study, Dermatologists can consult on wound care via cell phone, improving the quality of care and reduce costs.

Chronic angiotensin II receptor blockade with olmesartan improves renal vascular perfusion despite significant blood pressure reductions in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Routine screening for diabetes type 2 every three years in older Americans could be conducted at acceptable cost using a random plasma glucose cut point of 130 mg/dL.

Calcium could reduce body weight by binding fat in the intestine and increasing its excretion from the body. Researchers provide first clinical evidence for weight loss effect of dairy products.

Something old, Something new? A new function for a molecule that is already known. Visfatin, a newly discovered hormone for obesity or old hormone with a new story? Find out by reading what Evan David Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, has to say in his …