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 […]
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 […]
Attacking type 2 diabetes with meds
Vicki Williams has had a decades long relationship with type 2 diabetes. About a year and half ago the relationship took a turn for the worse. Her blood sugar levels spiked to 477, more than double the level of a typical diabetes diagnosis, and she had to be hospitalized. It was the wake-up call she […]
