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This is a warning signal to all smokers. According to a study, smoking increases diabetes risk by as much as three times. It is a known fact that diabetes and smoking can lead to serious health complications like heart diseases, but this study focussed on whether smoking itself can cause diabetes. It is also […]
Medicines made especially for you, how does it sound? These medicines will be based on the patient’s own genes. They are already playing a role in the treatment of some types of cancer like breast cancer. There is a hope that these kind of medicines can be extended to other diseases like diabetes and heart […]
Richard Humphreys was diagnosed with diabetes when he was only 14 years old. Now 62, not only he has lived with the disease for 48 long years but also encouraged and helped others, especially children, in living the disease. This month, he has undertaken a walk of 380 miles from Camp Ho Mita Koda, 30 […]
The number of deaths due to diabetes worldwide is increasing every year, according to a report published in the journal Diabetes Care. Normally international death statistics are collected based on the death certificates which do not yield always accurate results. In order to estimate the numbers accurately, the researchers used a computerized disease model. This […]
What is your waist size? If you are a man and your waist size is above 40 inches or if you are a woman and your waist size is 35 inches or more, then you run the highest risk of getting diabetes. Abnormal waist size also can result in heart disease. These are the observations […]
India will have 57 million diabetes patients by the year 2025, according to a study by World Health Organization (WHO). 25-30 million people are known diabetics while there may be another 20 million who don’t know that they have diabetes. Another statistic is 10 to 12 percent of the urban population is affected by diabetes, […]
Have a look at these numbers
Fast food spending in America has increased from $6 billion to $110 billion over the last 30 years.
In 1995, Americans spent 40% of their food expenditure in restaurants, a significant increase since 1975 when the figure was 25%
In 1970, the number of fast food restaurants in the U.S was 30,000 […]
A new transportation bill to prevent discrimination against insulin taking diabetics seeking employment driving commercial vehicles has been passed in both U.S House of Representatives and U.S Senate last month. Till now, it was very difficult for insulin using diabetics to even apply for commercial driving jobs, as the guidelines did not support them. As […]
What exactly is the relation between poverty and diabetes? Diabetes seems to affect people in poor areas more than those in the affluent areas. This observation has been made in Georgia. Basically, poverty gives rise to a chain of problems in poor areas. Poverty is often associated with low education which means that poor people […]
Barely a week passes by without a news item that brings worrying statistics about the spread of diabetes around the world. Just two weeks ago, we reported that over two million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. A latest report says that a quarter of the people with diabetes in the UK […]
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