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Just 2000 Steps and 100 Calories Can Impact Children's Lives And Prevent Disease

Posted: Monday, May 22, 2006

According to health statistics, one-third of all children in the United States are either overweight or dangerously close to becoming so. Walking 2000 more steps a day and reducing your calories by 100 per day can prevent weight gain for overweight children. The study results proves that this approach can help counter America's obesity crisis.

Beverage Industry Agrees to Halt Soda Sales in Schools

Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006

Bill Clinton, has done what public health experts failed to do. He pulled the plug on public school soda machines.

Comparison of Breakfast and Bedtime Insulin Glargine in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006

Once-daily dose of insulin glargine at breakfast in children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes on intensive therapy is more efficacious than bedtime administration.

Diabetes Drug Use by Children Doubled in US Over 3-Year Period

Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Between 2002 to 2005, the use of agents to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes among US children, 5 to 19 years of age, increased from about 0.3 to 0.6 per 1000, which could have "enormous implications" for long-term healthcare needs and expenses.

Diabetic Children Should Be Screened for Depressive Symptoms

Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006

Poor glycemic control and frequent ER visits are among the signs that a child or adolescent with diabetes may have a depressed mood.

Too Much TV Put Extra Pounds on Your Preschooler

Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006

In a new study, researchers found that preschool-age children who are exposed to more than two hours of TV a day are three times as likely to be overweight than kids who watch two or fewer hours of TV daily.

Waist Circumference Predicts Insulin Resistance in Children and Adolescents

Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2006

Waist circumference predicts insulin resistance independently of body-mass index (BMI) in children and adolescents.

Beta-Cell Dysfunction Implicated in Low Birth Weight-Related Diabetes

Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005

Findings from a study suggest that primary beta-cell dysfunction plays a key role in the pathogenesis of low birth weight (LBW)-associated type 2 diabetes.

New Screening Techniques To Distinguish Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Serum concentrations of adiponectin and leptin can aid in discriminating between diabetes type 1 and type 2 in adolescents and children. "Our findings," Dr. Atkinson concluded, should not only help differentiate the conditions "but in addition, may provide clues to the mechanisms that underlie each disorder and point to targets aimed at preventing diabetes."

Newborns Screened For Risk Of Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2004

To better understand the condition that affects about 1 million Americans, researchers are screening newborns to identify children most likely to acquire the disease and study them long before they get it. By looking at changes in blood proteins and surveying environmental factors — from breast-feeding to water supply to medications used during pregnancy — they hope to better predict who will get type 1 diabetes and learn what causes it and how to prevent it.