Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts

Friday, 26 August 2016

Giving children antibiotics can make them diabetic in later life


Doctors have warned following a ‘compelling’ study, that linked antibiotics with type 1 diabetes, the form that usually develops in childhood.

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Obesity surgery endorsed as a good way to treat diabetes

To avoid and even treat the killer disease, diabetes, you should consider keeping the fat away; for your own good.

On Tuesday May 24, international diabetes organizations called for weight-loss surgery to become a more routine treatment option for diabetes, even for some patients who are only mildly obese; in a guideline that was released.

Obesity and Type 2 diabetes are deadly and numerous studies show stomach-shrinking operations can dramatically improve diabetes.

The guidelines mark the first time the surgery is recommended specifically as a diabetes treatment rather than as obesity treatment with a side benefit.

The recommendations were endorsed by the American Diabetes Association, the International Diabetes Federation and 43 other health groups, and published in the  Diabetes Care journal.

Monday, 28 March 2016

Driving to work linked to a fatter middle age

Cars sit in a traffic jam in Lima, in this February 11, 2010 file photo.  REUTERS/Mariana Bazo




Choosing an active way to get to work could make a big difference in how much weight creeps on in middle age, a large U.K. study suggests.

Health benefits of Pumkin seeds (Ugu seeds) for your bone, sugar level and more

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If eating pumpkins is part of your diet, then you should consider using them and one way is to bake them. On the other hand, if you do not want to bother yourself with the whole procedure of baking the seeds, just go to the supermarket and buy yourself pumpkin seeds.