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New York City Bans Trans Fat Posted: Thursday, December 14, 2006

Department of Health of NY City, shows Trans Fats the Door, after voting unanimously to ban the substance from the city’s restaurants.

Risk of Poor Outcomes From Bariatric Surgery Greater in Elderly Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006

For patients aged 65 years and older, adverse event rates exceeded 20%, and in-house mortality was 3.2%.

Januvia Combo Soon to Be Available - JANUMET Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006

Within weeks of Januvia being approved, Merck & Co. is ready to come out with a combination product of Januvia and metformin.

Sitagliptin Role As Monotherapy, Adjunct Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

The newly licensed glucose-lowering agent sitagliptin phosphate (Januvia) appears safe and somewhat effective. It could become a replacement for sulfonylurea, due to its ability to control blood sugars without weight gain and hypoglycemia.

One in Six Americans Have Pre-Diabetes and Most Don't Know It Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Fifty-four million Americans, that's one in six of us, have pre-diabetes and most don't even realize it. Mark Schutta, MD, medical director of the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center, is urging at-risk patients to be proactive and ask your doctor to give you a simple blood test for pre-diabetes, to arm yourself with information before the damage is done. It means you have blood glucose levels that are higher than normal and you could one day reach a high enough level that you would be diagnosed with having diabetes.

Enriched Bread Reduces Energy Intake and Increase Feeling of Fullness Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

New study shows that you can eat bread and lose weight?? Bread enriched with lupin kernel flour at the expense of wheat flour reduced energy intake and increased the feeling of fullness, which may have important implications for weight management.

New Study Weighs Benefits of Exercise, Diets Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

While exercise and weight loss are equally effective ways to lose weight, exercising helps to maintain muscles, research finds.

Obese Kidney Transplant Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The First Year Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

Rimonabant (Accomplia) to Treat Obesity and Improve Glycemic Control Approved in Mexico Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Accomplia is now approved in Europe and Mexico, US next?

Weight Loss Improves Glucose Tolerance in Nonobese, Healthy Adults Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Weight loss from exercise or calorie restriction improved glucose tolerance in nonobese, healthy men and women, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

 

 

 

 

 

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