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Calorie Counter Device from General Electric

  Americans spend over $60 billion a year on diet and weight loss products but the weight often comes right back. That may be because it’s such a hassle to count calories. Now General Electric scientist Matt Webster has developed a calorie counter device which uses microwaves and scales to …

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Practical Diabetes Care, 3rd Ed., Excerpt #7: Type 2 Diabetes: General Introduction Part 2 of 2

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David Levy, MD, FRCP General Recommendations on Macronutrients Carbohydrate Recommended daily allowance is about 130 g. Low glycemic index foods (e.g. barley, oats, beans, lentils, rye bread) can reduce HbA1c by about 0.4% (4 mmol/mol) compared with high glycemic index foods. More importantly, high whole-grain, cereal fiber, bran and germ intake …

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Abdominal Obesity Can Be Treated with Exercise

For patients who are obese and sedentary, any exercise can help trim abdominal fat, but it may take a bit more effort to get other health benefits… Robert Ross, PhD, an exercise physiologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and colleagues recruited 300 people in their 40s and 50s who …

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GLP-1 Not As Effective after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Researchers compared glucose and hormonal responses to a liquid meal test in 20 obese participants with T2 who underwent RYGB or nonsurgical intensive lifestyle modification… Rapid glycemic improvements following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are frequently attributed to the enhanced GLP-1 response, but causality remains unclear. To determine the role of …

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Will Congress Pass Improved Diabetes Care?

AACE leads charge for legislative changes focused on treating diabetes, prediabetes and associated illnesses… An estimated 29.1 million Americans (almost 10% of the total population) have diabetes, another 86 million citizens aged 20 or older suffer from prediabetes, and spending on diagnosed diabetes has increased 41% over five years. Further, …

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