London – Health advice to drink eight glasses of water a day is over the top and does not help with weight loss, says a leading nutritionist. Fruit, vegetables and juices should have a major role in providing the fluids we need, he added. Spero Tsindos, an academic and public health expert, also argued that …
THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — About 3 percent of patients who have total hip and knee replacements require critical care services before they leave the hospital, a large new study indicates. The findings highlight the risks of these elective surgeries in older patients with other health problems and show that the procedures are placing an increasing burden on …
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Researchers in Sweden have developed a vaccine that helps improve the symptoms of people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published in Lancet Neurology, says this is a breakthrough in the search for a cure to the dementia disease. The researchers noted the vaccine focuses on the amyloid precursor protein, which …
PRWEB UK) 8 June 2012 Diabetes Week is fast approaching in the UK and there is no better time for a blood pressure check. From 10-16 June 2012, millions of people will pause to reflect on the seriousness of diabetes during Diabetes Week. In the UK alone 2.5 million people suffer from type 2 diabetes …
Natasja SheriffReuters 3:08 p.m. CDT, June 8, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The chances of developing type 2 diabetes were as much as 24 percent lower among people with a diet rich in selenium than among those who consumed little of the mineral in a large new U.S. study. The findings, published in the journal Diabetes Care, …
Patients suffering from pre-diabetes may be at a higher risk of stroke, a new study has suggested. Pre-diabetes is characterised by higher than normal blood glucose levels that, if left untreated, develops into type 2 diabetes. The scale of the problem is enormous and growing, with an estimated 79 million people in the US and …
The Manhattan diet: Losing Weight While Living A Fabulous Life By Eileen Daspin Wiley, Eileen Daspin is a lifestyle and culture journalist who lives in Manhattan (of course) with her chef husband Cesare Casella. After reading a New York Times article about obesity rates that showed Manhattan as the skinniest of all 62 …
In a recent study through the University of Hawaii, researchers found that people were more likely to view a woman differently if they were told she had lost 70 pounds or more, as opposed to women who maintained the same weight (May 30th, http://yhoo.it/Ky0N4s). Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil says that in light of this news, it’s …
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TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — Some experimental diabetes treatments in late testing offer patients hope of better controlling their blood sugar and weight and preventing dangerously low blood sugar, all big challenges for millions of diabetics. Results from studies of several new diabetes medicines and insulin products, just announced at the premiere U.S. conference …
Am I allowed carbs since I have diabetes? This is a question I am asked so often, I think the answer bears repeating…YES! Many of my clients with recently diagnosed with diabetes believe it is necessary remove all carbohydrates from their diet. This is not only unnecessary, it’s very difficult to do. Besides the …
In less than a decade, healthcare for diabetics will cost the country more than $1 billion a year unless New Zealanders start watching their diets, Diabetes New Zealand says. On average, 50 people were diagnosed with diabetes each day last year, increasing the total number with the incurable type-1 by just under 10%. …
People who thoughtfully chew their food and don’t rush mealtimes not only avoid indigestion – they could be preventing diabetes as well, claim scientists. They have discovered that those of us who wolf down our meals are two-and-a-half times more at risk. This could be because eating very quickly encourages weight gain which can trigger …
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Theory: The FDA exists to increase profits for drug companies. Facts: The FDA was caught conspiring with the chemical industry to conclude that Bisphenol-A, the plastics chemical, is harmless to human health. The FDA based its evaluation of BPA on a report authored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group that represents chemical companies …
Drink at least 4 cups of tea a day to slash the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A research on European populations conducted by Christian Herder and his team from the Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany found that people in countries that drank four cups of tea a …
A popular class of drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of vision problems, a new study suggests, underlining the importance of regular eye exams for anyone with diabetes. The study is one of the largest to investigate vision loss associated with thiazolidinediones, a group of drugs that includes the …
There are many ways to lower your risk of type 2 diabetes and the dangers of cardiovascular disease that go with it is through exercising. Many people now a days are very inactive and many jobs today require sitting for long hours in front of computers and offices. Exercising becomes more difficult to accomplish, but …
A cheap and relatively safe diabetes drug, metformin, might have cancer-fighting properties, according to an international study – but findings fall short of proving it actually can stave off cancer. Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that women with diabetes who took the medication had a 25 percent lower …
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A virtual diabetes pandemic is sweeping the world, with record levels of obesity and diabetes crippling the health of hundreds of millions of people globally. As horrible as this is, what is even worse is the sobering evidence that most people appear unwilling to take the lifestyle steps that can prevent this killer disease. Do …
They found that the gene, known to be present in many Alzheimer’s disease cases, affects the insulin pathway. Disruption of this pathway is a hallmark of diabetes. The finding could point to a therapeutic target for both diseases. The researchers report their finding in the June 2012 issue of the journal Genetics. “People with type …
PLYMOUTH, England, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — June 15th 2012 represents a ground-breaking date in the history of diabetes research. After twelve years the EarlyBird project has made significant advances in understanding what triggers diabetes and cardio-vascular disease and the means to determine how advanced these conditions are. The Earlybird research has worryingly shown just how early …
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A seaweed-based fibre supplement, taken daily before meals, helped people lose weight in a new study. But that was only the case among people who stuck with the diet study over a few months. More than one-fifth of people dropped out when they couldn’t tolerate the supplement’s taste, texture and side effects. Researchers have explored …
FOR Bundaberg woman Delma Lovell, losing an astounding 58kg has transformed her life and allowed her to do things she never imagined she could. But Ms Lovell is not the only one locally to achieve great results with weight loss program Weight Watchers. In the past 18 months about 300 members from seven groups …
ScienceDaily (June 14, 2012) — No effective treatments are currently available for the prevention or cure of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most frequent form of dementia in the elderly. The most recognized risk factors, advancing age and having the apolipoprotein E Ɛ4 gene, cannot be modified or treated. Increasingly, scientists are looking toward other risk factors …
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COLLEGE STATION – Peaches, plums and nectarines have bioactive compounds that can potentially fight-off obesity-related diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to new studies by Texas AgriLife Research. The study, which will be presented at the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia next August, showed that the compounds in stone fruits could be a weapon against “metabolic …
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Having diabetes may put older patients on a faster path to cognitive impairment, researchers found. Over 9 years, those who had diabetes had significantly worse cognitive decline on two separate tests compared with those who didn’t have the disease (P=0.008 andP=0.001), Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported …
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