Based on private health insurance claims with a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, a study said the incidence of the disease has more than doubled in the pediatric population or children aged 0 to 22 years. Between 2011 and 2015, diabetes among children and yougnsters increased 109 percent, according to data from FAIR Health, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing transparency to ...
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Blue Corn Reduces Risk from BP, Diabetes, Cancer: Study
Eating blue corn may decrease the risk factor from metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, said a new study. The research undertaken by an Indian origin scientist and his team from the University of Central Florida in collaboration with researchers from Universidad Veracruzana and Instituto Tecnologico de Veracruz in Mexico, found in their study of rats the blue corn ...
Read More »Device to Stem Diabetes Developed by Japan Scientists
Scientists of Kumamoto University in Japan have developed a new wearable strip to help treat type 2 diabetes, even in obese, disabled or elderly people that can effect visceral fat loss and improve blood glucose. Their clinical study showed that a new device is effective in preventing and treating diabetes, especially with patients who had been taking diabetes drugs but ...
Read More »Diabetes-Centric Ayurveda Day Tomorrow
On the occasion of National Ayurveda Day, the Ministry of AYUSH is organizing a one day National Seminar on “Prevention and Control of Diabetes through Ayurveda” tomorrow (28th October 2016) at New Delhi amid divergent opinions surfacing on some recent Ayurvedic medicines released in the market. PMO Minister of State Jitender Singh will inaugurate the seminar and Minister of AYUSH ...
Read More »Miracle Insulin Pill Developed to Treat Diabetes
Ending the pain of an insulin injection daily for diabetic patients, Niagara University researchers have developed a miracle pill for oral administration to deliver insulin where it needs to go. The faculty members and undergraduate student from Niagara University are now sharing their in vivo testing results. Mary McCourt, Lawrence Mielnicki, and rising senior Jamie Catalano presented their work on ...
Read More »10 Myths About Diabetes: How to Overcome?
According to the Lancet study in April this year, there is a fourfold rise in the number of diabetics – from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 and half of them live in five countries -India, China, USA, Brazil and Indonesia. In China, the numbers rose from 20.4 million in China in 1980 to 102.9 million in ...
Read More »Gut Bacteria Without Food Diversity Causes Diabetes: Study
It’s the gut feeling that makes you healthy and it is a weak gut that makes you prone to Type 2 diabetes, say researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in US. To get a strong gut health, researchers suggest people to eat balanced and diversified diet to keep the bacteria ecosystem in your stomach in tact. Attributing the reduction in ...
Read More »Walnuts, Mediterranean Diet Reduce Weight in Women, Says New Study
In a toast to Mediterranean diet, a study by researchers of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine proves that weight loss programs that provide healthy fats, such as olive oil in the Arab diet, or a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet have similar impacts on pound-shedding. To be precise, the researchers hit upon a meal plan rich in walnuts, ...
Read More »US Whites More Prone to Heart Diseases Than Blacks, Latinos, Asians: Study
Reversing the widely hedl view that Asians, especially South Asians are prone to heart diseases more than ohters, a recent study has come out with startling finding that Whites are more at heart disease and diabetes than other ethnic groups like Blacks, Latinos or Asians. Based on the premise that hospital and medica access was equal to all in the ...
Read More »Global Diet Getting Sweeter, Impose Sugar Tax, Says Researcher
Researchers of University of North Carolina have sounded alarming bells citing increased sugar consumption all over world, especially in beverages which include aerated and energy drinks and they sought imposition of sugar tax and urgent governmental intervention. They found that currently 68 percent of packaged foods and beverages in the United States contain caloric sweeteners, 74 percent include both caloric ...
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