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Study: Most Diabetics Don't Exercise

Posted: Friday, February 02, 2007

Doctors don’t have the time to teach and patients are too busy to do what is necessary to improve their health! Medical professionals have to do more!

Weight Loss Linked to CRP Reductions

Posted: Thursday, January 25, 2007

Shedding pounds—through diet, exercise, or surgery—consistently lowers CRP, regardless of the type of weight-loss intervention, a new review study suggests.

National Physical Activity Intervention for Children Works

Posted: Thursday, January 25, 2007

Children aware of VERB™ reported engaging in significantly more physical activity than children unaware of VERB™.

VERB™ It’s what you do.It is a national, multicultural, social marketing campaign* coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

Posted: Thursday, January 18, 2007

A team of researchers created the National Weight Control Registry to find out. Using newspaper and magazine advertisements, they identified about 5,000 people who had successfully lost weight and kept it off. Study participants lost an average of 72 pounds. Although some gained back some weight, all maintained at least a 30-pound loss.

Exercise Vs. Diet To Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2006

Caloric reduction and exercise-induced weight loss both substantially improve risk factors for type 2 diabetes; however, one approach does not appear to be better than the other, a study shows.

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.

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.

New, Minimally-Invasive Surgery for the Morbidly Obese

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Three studies presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology demonstrated that transoral endoscopic surgical techniques entering the abdomen through oral cavities such as the nose and mouth can be successful in both bovine and human patients. Further, patients who underwent endoscopic-guided transoral gastroplasty for morbid obesity showed signs of initial weight loss.

Lifestyle Change Cuts Weight, CVD Risk in Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Control group had lost a mean of 8.3% of their body weight. One-year data obtained from a large, federally funded trial have shown that intensive lifestyle intervention can produce significant weight loss and reduce cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Three Years Later, Participants in the Diabetes Prevention Study Still Benefiting

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, a new follow-up of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study shows.