lifestyle diseases
08/03/2018
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By Tracey Watson
Study: Diet determines whether you get type 2 diabetes, especially in older women
For many years, doctors insisted that a diabetes diagnosis was nothing more than bad luck, an unfortunate genetic predisposition about which very little could be done. In some instances, patients were advised to lose a bit of weight, but for the most part they were prescribed chemical drugs to control the condition and sent on […]
01/08/2018
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By Frances Bloomfield
New study debunks the common belief that Blacks have a higher diabetes risk than Whites – it all comes down to weight, for all of us
There’s a long-held belief that African Americans are more prone to developing type-2 diabetes; yet a new study has turned that idea in on its head. Researchers from Northwestern University have discovered that various modifiable, biological factors like body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure can predispose one to this condition, not genetics. When not […]
08/02/2017
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By Tracey Watson
CDC sounds alarm over exploding diabetes epidemic impacting 100 million Americans … while food companies keep fattening Americans with processed food
The figures in the latest National Diabetes Statistics Report, released bi-annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are alarming, to say the least: By 2015, 100 million people in the United States were battling either prediabetes or full-blown type 2 diabetes. That’s one in three Americans suffering with a life-threatening, but totally […]
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