In toronto health, carrying excess weight may have a greater impact on the risk for diabetes than it does on the risk for heart disease or early death, a new study has found. To look at the effect of obesity independent of genetics, Swedish researchers followed 4,046 pairs of identical twins whose average age […]
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Normal Weight May Not Able To Protect Against Diabetes
In Toronto health, Type 2 diabetes has long been considered a disease of the overweight and obese, but a new study challenges that notion. It finds nearly one in five normal-weight people has prediabetes — a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes. And in folks over 45, one-third of those at a […]
Walk in the woods can help young people with mental health issues
In Toronto health post, a walk in the woods is good for the soul. For many, it may even improve mental health. That’s the premise of the Mood Walks program being offered by forty different agencies across the province, including Rouge Valley Health System and Parks Canada. The program is meant for young people with mental illnesses, […]
Low-carb diet helps control diabetes, new study suggests
A large pilot study of low-carbohydrate diets suggests they can successfully control type 2 diabetes. A review of more than 80,000 people who gave up low-fat, high carbohydrate diets found that after ten weeks their blood-glucose levels dropped. That study was conducted after an online revolt by patients in which 120,000 people signed up […]
Health Canada bans drug 100 times more powerful than fentanyl
Health Canada is banning the powerful street drug W-18, which it says can be 100 times more potent than fentanyl. The synthetic opioid is being added to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and classed as a restricted drug under federal regulations. That means production, possession, importation or exportation and trafficking of the drug […]
