Using a simple portion control dinner plate can help people with type 2 diabetes lose weight and decrease reliance on medication, research shows. Canadian researchers put people with type 2 diabetes on a calorie-controlled diet for six months. They found 17% of those who used a calibrated diet plate lost more than 5% of their [...]
Giving children with type 1 diabetes an infusion of blood saved from their own umbilical cords helped reduce the severity of their disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said the blood — which is rich in immune regulatory cells — may re-start the children’s immune systems, but the effect likely will not last and [...]
The rate of premature death among American men with diabetes has dropped dramatically over the last few decades, but the same can’t be said for women with the disease, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The proportion of early deaths among diabetic women remained unchanged between 1971 and 2000, [...]
A diagnosis of diabetes means losing an average of eight years from your expected life span, new research suggests. In addition, diabetics are more likely to develop heart disease sooner than non-diabetics, the study found. “Having diabetes at age 50 years and over does not only represent a significant increase in the risk of developing [...]
Scientists at Swansea University’s School of Medicine have been awarded more than £93,000 by the BUPA Foundation to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate disappearance of diabetes in patients. 95% of morbidly obese people – those with a Body Mass Index of over 40 – have Type 2 diabetes, sometimes known [...]
Diabetes is recognised as one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. It is a chronic disease with a substantial elevation in the circulating blood sugar. The major mode of control of diabetes is usually by diet, exercise and insulin replacement therapy and by the use of herbal agents able to [...]
A British-led study has determined glucose plays a key role in enabling cells that produce insulin to develop in an embryo’s pancreas. That discovery, said Imperial College London researchers, could lead to development of new therapies for diabetes — a condition caused by insufficient levels of insulin. Glucose prompts a gene called Neurogenin3 to switch [...]
Scientists have discovered three unsuspected regions of human DNA that contain clear genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and another that is associated with elevated blood triglycerides. The findings stem from the work of the Diabetes Genetics Initiative (DGI), a public-private partnership between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Novartis and Lund University, and [...]
A diet rich in fiber from cereals and in magnesium may help lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, German researchers report. Ann Albright, president-elect for health care and education at the American Diabetes Association, said the suggestion that fiber from cereal might be better than fiber from fruits and vegetables in preventing type [...]
Members of Congress plotted a campaign against diabetes yesterday, introducing legislation that would allot $120 million to research and projects in the upcoming year to discover possible ways to prevent the spread of the disease and its complications. “We know that diabetes can either be prevented or effectively managed through proper diet and exercise in [...]
