Losing kilos vital to beating diabetes
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Half the world&#39;s diabetes cases could be eliminated by curbing the soaring number of people who are overweight, say health experts.
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Experts pushed for more simple strategies to prevent diabetes, a potentially devastating disease. The world greeted its 13th World Diabetes Day with the campaign slogan &quot;Fight Obesity, Prevent Diabetes&quot; yesterday.
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Diabetes is dangerous even before the disease becomes full-blown, boosting the risk of death from heart disease in its earliest form, Australian researchers said on Monday.
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One in 12 people should be taking a drug to prevent diabetes, researchers estimate.
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NEW YORK  - Resistance training at a community center is helpful for maintaining control of blood sugar levels in adults with type 2 diabetes, an Australian study suggests.
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Col. Bridget Fath. Thousands of people will lose their sight from diabetic eye disease this year. There are roughly 29 million American adults who have diabetes, many of whom who don&#39;t even know they have the disease.
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It&#39;s well known that diabetes doubles the risk of dying from heart disease. Two large international studies now say that heart risk increases much before the diabetes stage, when the sugar levels are high but have not crossed the marker for diabetes.
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Research has shown that strength training can help overweight adults lower their risk of diabetes. But what about teenagers? A small but promising study found that pudgy boys who lifted weights twice a week for four months lowered their risk for Type 2 diabetes without losing weight, a good sign that has inspired more research.
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NEW YORK  - People who manage to reduce their waistlines may also lower their risk for diabetes and heart disease, a study suggests.
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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.
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New research suggests that  obese adults with diabetes often say they eat less than they  actually do -- a problem that can hinder management of the  disease, according to researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity and lack of physical activity both raise the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, obesity appears to be the more important factor, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of diabetes among overweight, sedentary men, study findings suggest. And if these men reduce the amount of calories they consume each day, their diabetes risk drops even further.
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New research shows that many people who have heart disease - or are at risk of developing it owing to factors such as being overweight - also have undiagnosed diabetes, which increases their chance of an early death.
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Although obesity and lack of  physical activity both raise the risk of type 2 diabetes in  women, obesity appears to be the more important factor,  researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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NEW YORK  - Americans with diabetes are doing a better job of keeping their blood glucose under control, a new analysis shows.
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NEW YORK  - Research results suggest that a diet rich in low-fat dairy calcium boosts weight loss in overweight type 2 diabetics. "Such a diet should be tried in diabetic patients," researchers conclude, particularly in those individuals who have a tough time sticking to other weight loss diets.