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Children Need More Sleep to Prevent Diabetes Posted: Sunday, February 06, 2011

If your children are getting less than 9 hours of sleep per night, they need more to avoid metabolic factors that predispose them to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

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.

Dads Hooked on Junk Food Risk Giving Diabetes to Their Children Posted: Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Men who eat junk food could be condemning their future children to diabetes, a study suggests.

Common Cold Virus Linked to Childhood Obesity in New Study Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Scientists are continuing to find connections between viruses and more serious diseases: a recent study suggests a link between childhood obesity and a virus that causes the common cold.

Children Who Eat Vended Foods Face Health Problems, Poor Diet Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Vended foods and beverages linked to obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease.

Diabetes Epidemic in California Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Obesity among California adolescents is more than twice as high as the national target of 5.0 percent, while the rate of diabetes among California adults is more than three times the federal goal of 2.5 percent of the population.

Teens with Type 2 Diabetes Have Brain Abnormalities Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Obese adolescents with Type 2 diabetes have diminished cognitive performance and subtle abnormalities in the brain, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found.

Diabetes Costs More than $218 Billion and Expected to Rise Posted: Sunday, May 30, 2010

According to Timothy M. Dall of the Lewin Group in Falls Church, Va., the annual average cost per patient was $9,975 for diagnosed diabetes and $2,864 for undiagnosed disease, "The burden of diabetes to society is even higher when one considers intangible costs from reduced quality of life," the researchers wrote online in Health Affairs.

April is Defeat Diabetes® Month Posted: Thursday, April 01, 2010

Defeat Diabetes Foundation Presents 30 Days of Activities to Help Prevent the Disease and its Complications

 

 

 

 

 

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