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Preventing Diabetes: All We Have to Do Is Ask!

Posted: Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Why are we missing chances to prevent diabetes? Physicians in the United States are rarely diagnosing prediabetes.

Whole-Fat Milk and Cheese Can Lower Diabetes Risk

Posted: Tuesday, January 04, 2011

The incidence of Type 2 diabetes declined significantly as levels of a fatty acid found in whole-fat dairy products increased.

An Inexpensive, Effective Approach to Diabetes Management

Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Diabetes control with reciprocal peer support versus nurse care management...This randomized trial compared the effects of a reciprocal peer support (RPS) program with nurse case management (NCM) in 244 US veterans with diabetes.

Almonds Help Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Incorporating almonds into your diet can help treat and possibly prevent Type 2 diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease.

New Guidelines for Exercise in Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, December 21, 2010

New guidelines stress the crucial role that physical activity plays in the management of Type 2 diabetes: physicians should prescribe exercise.

"The United States of Diabetes"

Posted: Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Diabetes will threaten the nation's economy as much as it does the health of individuals and the U.S. will spend $3.35 trillion on diabetes-related care in the next decade.

Diastolic BP Less than 70 mm Hg in Diabetes Linked to Increased CV Risk

Posted: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Diastolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg in patients with Type 2 diabetes is linked to increased CV risk, even when systolic BP is in target ranges.

Half of U.S. Could Have Diabetes or Prediabetes within Ten Years

Posted: Monday, December 06, 2010

More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current trends go on unabated, according to analysis of a new Report "The United States of Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Decade Ahead."

Curbing the Diabetes and Prediabetes Epidemic

Posted: Monday, December 06, 2010

By the year 2020, 52% of adults in the U.S. could be prediabetic or diabetic, up from about 40% today according to a new report.

Pomegranate Juice Helps Kidney Patients

Posted: Monday, December 06, 2010

Researchers in Israel report that there could be some truth to some of the many health claims for pomegranate juice, at least for kidney patients on dialysis.