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Wednesday, Jan 7
Nibbles: Leptin gets another shot as obesity treatment, diabetes and mental function and screen time and unfit kids
The health ministry in India will soon require that packaged foods include nutritional information and let consumers know the ingredients as well as calorie and fat amounts. Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says this will help people understand the dangers of consuming junk food and make mo...
Sunday, Jan 4
Nibbles: How exercise helps, who’s at higher risk for gestational diabetes and elephants in San Diego no longer fat
This time of year more people are starting or ramping up exercise programs (yours truly included) than probably at any other time of year, but the New York Times wants us all to remember that exercise isn’t a cure-all. Exercise alone is not enough to prevent most diseases and it probably won...
Thursday, Jan 1
Nibbles for kids: Not enough obesity diagnoses, gastric bypass and diabetes and another danger of skipping breakfast
When obese adolescents get weight-loss surgery, it can reduce symptoms of or even reverse diabetes, just as is does in older people who have the surgery, according to research from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Researchers looked at weight-loss surgeries performed there and at oth...
Sunday, Dec 28
Nibbles: Waist size a good predictor of stroke risk, fishy benefits of fish oil and blood sugar and Alzheimer’s
People with diabetes as well as some of the health problems known as metabolic syndrome seem to have increased risk of chronic kidney disease. Research from China suggests that known risk factors for cardiovascular disease (such as the high blood pressure, low good cholesterol and high...
Friday, Dec 19
Diabetes news: Exercise is good, uncontrolled glucose is bad, and more study needed for drugs
At the end of about seven and a half years, those in the intensive group did show a reduction in glucose levels, but they didn’t have lower rates of heart attack, stroke, amputations, nerve damage, heart failure or death than the group that hadn’t undergone treatment. Drugs need more study...
Tuesday, Dec 16
How to stop obesity in New York City and elsewhere
The report emphasizes reducing promotion and availability of junk food rather than promoting and making healthy food more widely available because it says the city is already doing a lot to make healthy choices and places for safe physical activity more widely available.
Saturday, Dec 13
Obesity, diabetes and prostate cancer: What’s the link?
Study shows less cancer risk for men with diabetes For starters, high insulin levels due to insulin resistance usually develop years before the most common form of diabetes is diagnosed. In the years after diagnosis, insulin levels may start to fall. Weight, insulin levels increase risk
Saturday, Nov 22
Obesity linked to more liver disease than alcohol
But it’s not just severe obesity that is linked with fatty liver disease. In fact, overweight that leads to insulin resistance seems to be the primary culprit. Researchers say NAFLD seems highly related to the constellation of problems called metabolic syndrome, which includes some com...
Friday, Nov 21
Nibbles: More food-borne illness research needed, diabetes news and farmers seeing prices fall
Some studies have linked diabetes and cognitive dysfunction, but a new study suggests that mental processing speed may be the brain function most severely affected by diabetes. Researchers looked at data from the AGES Reykjavik Study and found that people who had been diagnosed with di...
Monday, Nov 17
Nibbles: Vitamins and high blood pressure, cancer, plus why diabetes, weight gain and pregnancy shouldn’t mix
Low D levels linked to higher blood pressure; vitamins C and E don't help prevent cancer; gestational diabetes and too much weight gain can lead to complications; more people with liver cancer have diabetes; Victoria, Australia, schools to dump junk food; and nationwide menu labeling...
Thursday, Nov 13
Statins and PCOS, surgery could improve fertility, while a high-fat diet makes kids hungry
Women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome had their symptoms controlled at least as well or better than the standard treatment when they were given statin drugs, usually used to treat high cholesterol. Because PCOS, which includes multiple ovarian cysts combined with symptoms such a...
Friday, Nov 7
Nibbles: Energy-dense foods and diabetes, plus another obesity drug bites the dust
Eating a diet full of energy-dense foods, those that have a higher number of calories per volume, may increase a person’s risk of developing diabetes. Researchers from the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, England, found that those who ate the most energy-dense diets had a 60...
Monday, Nov 3
Nibbles: Diabetes rate nearly doubles, excess weight and breast cancer, and Welsh hospitals junk unhealthy snacks
The rate of diagnosis of diabetes in 33 states has risen from 4.8 people per 1,000 in 1995 to 1997 to 9.1 per 1,000 in 2005 to 2007. The data from the 1990s was only available from 33 states; now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data for 43 states. Diagnosis rates were lowest in Min...
