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Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 9:46pm
Childhood obesity and the emergence of type-2 diabetes in youth have become a major health problem for many countries. This has actually prompted many researches to identify lifestyle approaches to primary prevention of both conditions.
A recent paper, published in the medical journal Diabetes Care by a team of researchers from ...
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Posted
Fri 13 Nov 2009 10:00pm
What do you think of this website?
It claims that overweight is a symptom (rather than the cause) of diabetes, and that diabetes is simply genetic.
– Courtney (last name unknown)
Via the blog
While there is most certainly a genetic component to type-2 diabetes, environmental (AKA dietary) factors determine whether or not this “gene ...
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Posted
Thu 09 Apr 2009 7:16pm
I recently discovered that I was running low on the testosterone. This was kind of a shocker and so I started some discovery of the problem on the net. This is what I found interesting , if you are low on testosterone -
You feel lack of enrgy
You will be lethargic
Muscle development will be stunted
Now coupled with my Type 2 diagnosti ...
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Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 10:24am
Eat more vegetables and fruits to stay healthy! You would probably hear this very common statement frequently. How about fruit juice, is it good for health?
A recent study published in July 2008 by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans indicated that “women with Type-2 diabetes” should stay away from fr ...
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Posted
Fri 07 May 2010 8:57am
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When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, his or her body would have problem making or using insulin. Insulin is required for moving glucose (blood sugar) into cells, where it is stored and later used for energy.
An estimated 24 million people in the Untied States have diabetes, with 90 percent of them are diagnosed as Type-2 diabetes ...
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Posted
Thu 26 Nov 2009 10:01pm
It's the Tohono O'odham Native American tribe with an incidence rate pushing 70%. The majority of the tribe can be found on a reservation in southwestern Arizona.
The most interesting piece of information? No one in the tribe was diabetic before 1960, but that's when they began to move away from "traditional foods".
Interestingly, there are a ...
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Posted
Mon 20 Sep 2010 12:30pm
A rapidly growing problem in the USA is type 2 diabetes. The problem is currently out of control. The number that will be of specific concern is the 57 million people who are "pre-diabetic". This means they don't have diabetes, but eventually will. So what can be done? That is the question I am asking myself right now. So I am going to lo ...
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Posted
Thu 02 Oct 2008 3:12pm
Note from Connie: Naturally, those of you reading this blog are well aware of the fact that type 2 diabetes is soaring. In fact, last month, Jennifer Moore tipped us off that “A whopping 24 million Americans now have diabetes.” Gerry Pugliese brings you info about a new report, in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine about why young ...
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