Overweight Urged to Slim Down to Cut Diabetes Risk
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Half the world's diabetes cases could be eliminated by curbing the soaring number of people who are overweight, health experts said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - People carrying excess weight who aim to ward off diabetes should try to lose the pounds before they reach middle age, Australian researchers suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Obese patients typically show  poor sensitivity to the hormone insulin, a problem that can  lead to diabetes. Previous reports have shown that weight loss  surgery can improve this sensitivity and now, new research  indicates that the type of surgery determines how fast this  problem is fixed.
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Scientists say they have mapped the most important genes that put people at risk of type 2 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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Cutting body fat means middle-aged people are less likely to develop a syndrome which increases heart disease and diabetes risk, researchers say.
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LONDON This may already seem obvious. But a new study offers scientific evidence that eating lots of fast food really does super-size you, and increases your chances of developing diabetes.
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A new report says gestational diabetes is strongly linked to childhood obesity  -  but there's a lot you can do to treat the condition
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A new study suggests that people with juvenile diabetes should follow the same advice given to other diabetics: Don't smoke, and watch your weight and blood pressure.
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Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
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One in 12 people should be taking a drug to prevent diabetes, researchers estimate.
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Weight loss surgery can be especially helpful to patients with diabetes and can even help them reverse the disease, Australian researchers reported on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Findings from a new study   suggest that obesity per se is not a risk factor for organ   failure or death. However, the risk is increased with diabetes,   which often develops in people with a high body mass index   (BMI).
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Smoking is linked to a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.
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The first, by researchers at Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital in Boston, finds that no matter how much exercise a woman gets, if she&#39;s overweight, she&#39;s at risk of developing diabetes.
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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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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.