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I read an interesting article in The Providence Journal about the history of diabetes. Well, it was interesting to me, anyway, in that “it’s time to go home but there’s no food in the fridge and I’m too lazy to go to the store so hey, let’s read about the Beedies before I go” […]
Researchers have found that following a low-fat vegan diet may do more to improve the health of type 2 diabetics than other traditional diets, including that recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
These benefits may include reduction of the need for medication, lower levels of cholesterol and more success in losing weight.
43 percent of type […]
According to Dr. Thomas Graves of the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana, diabetes isn’t just a disease afflicting millions of Americans. It’s a problem for our pets, too.
As with humans, our pets often evade diagnosis until the disease begins to cause outward indications like urinary problems, long after they’ve developed diabetes.
Diabetes […]
If you’re reading this, you obviously care enough about your diabetes to go online and look for more information (or at least see what some snotty, bitter monkey like me has to say about the never-ending Festival of Delight that IS type 2 diabetes). As a result, you probably don’t need to go read […]
We all know the high risk of developing type 2 diabetes if you are overweight. According to a study in the July edition of Diabetes Care, however, just having short legs might increase your risk as well.
Researchers for the study, including Keiko Asao, M.D., MPH, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, studied data from […]
According to a new Danish study, Type 1 diabetics are more than three times as likely to develop multiple sclerosis as those without diabetes. Additionally, researchers found that the two diseases appear to be linked within families.
The study was reported in the Archives of Neurology and was conducted by Dr. Nete M. Nielsen and […]
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, one of the leading health problems leading to diabetes, researchers at Indiana State University in Terre Haute conducted a study to test the effects of having children play with heavier toys.
The study found that ten kids ages six to eight burned more calories and had higher heart and […]
In a development sure to be covered in more detail in the next issue of The Journal of Duh, a study of overweight type 2 diabetics has found that increasing the amount of walking they do every day will result in significant improvements in heart and respiratory fitness. The study examined the exercise routine […]
A study by the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that drinking decaffeinated coffee can lower the risk of developing diabetes. In an eleven-year study of 28,000 women found that more than six cups of decaf coffee a day was linked to a 33% lower risk of diabetes compared with no coffee at all.
The research […]
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