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Type 2 Diabetes: Culturally-tailored Education Can Improve Blood Sugar Control
Using community-based health advocates, delivering information within same-gender groups or adapting dietary and lifestyle advice to fit a particular community's likely diet can help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels, certainly for up to six months, following health education. This conclusion was reached by a team of Cochrane researchers after they considered the data in 11 trials that involved 1,603 people.
Science Daily – Jul 15, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Using community-based health advocates, delivering information within same-gender groups or adapting dietary and lifestyle advice to fit a particular community's likely diet can help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels, certainly for up to six months, following health education. This conclusion was reached by a team of Cochrane researchers after they considered the data in 11 trials that involved 1,603 people.
Science Daily – Jul 15, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
89 Percent Of Children's Food Products Provide Poor Nutritional Quality
Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a new study. Researchers used US guidelines to review 367 products. 70 percent of the products had higher than recommended sugar levels, 23 percent had high fat levels and 17 percent had high salt levels. But 62 percent of them still make health claims on the packaging.
Science Daily – Jul 14, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a new study. Researchers used US guidelines to review 367 products. 70 percent of the products had higher than recommended sugar levels, 23 percent had high fat levels and 17 percent had high salt levels. But 62 percent of them still make health claims on the packaging.
Science Daily – Jul 14, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Gene Produces Hormones That Lead To Obesity
Obesity and common weight gain share a genetic basis. Scientists have discovered a new obesity gene that plays an essential role in the maturation of several key hormones that control food intake. Mutations in this gene increase the risk of severe obesity and can lead to excessive weight.
Science Daily – Jul 14, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Obesity and common weight gain share a genetic basis. Scientists have discovered a new obesity gene that plays an essential role in the maturation of several key hormones that control food intake. Mutations in this gene increase the risk of severe obesity and can lead to excessive weight.
Science Daily – Jul 14, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Non-parental Care Of Infants Tied To Unfavorable Feeding Practices
With more new mothers in the workplace than ever before, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of child care facilities in the United States. At the same time, data from a variety of sources point to a growing prevalence of overweight infants and toddlers. Is there a connection? According to a new study, child care factors and feeding practices may indeed play a role.
Science Daily – Jul 11, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
With more new mothers in the workplace than ever before, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of child care facilities in the United States. At the same time, data from a variety of sources point to a growing prevalence of overweight infants and toddlers. Is there a connection? According to a new study, child care factors and feeding practices may indeed play a role.
Science Daily – Jul 11, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Revolutionary Chefs? Not Likely, Shows Physics Research
However much the likes of Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on. Three national cuisines - British, French and Brazilian -- are affected by the founder effect which keeps idiosyncratic and nutritionally ambivalent, expensive and sometimes hard to transport ingredients in our diets.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
However much the likes of Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on. Three national cuisines - British, French and Brazilian -- are affected by the founder effect which keeps idiosyncratic and nutritionally ambivalent, expensive and sometimes hard to transport ingredients in our diets.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Metabolic Disease: Understanding How The Brain Can Influence The Effects Of Insulin
One of the characteristics of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which refers to the inability of cells in the body to respond appropriately to the hormone insulin. Among the cells in the body that normally respond to insulin are nerves in a region of the brain known as the hypothalamus.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
One of the characteristics of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which refers to the inability of cells in the body to respond appropriately to the hormone insulin. Among the cells in the body that normally respond to insulin are nerves in a region of the brain known as the hypothalamus.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Alcohol's Impact On Heart And Stroke Risk May Differ For Men, Women
Heart and stroke risks associated with alcohol use differ among Japanese men and women. Women with light alcohol consumption had a small decrease in heart disease death risk; heavy alcohol users had a much greater increase in risk. Men with heavy alcohol use had a 19 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than non-drinking men. Heavy alcohol use increased the risk of stroke in men and women.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Heart and stroke risks associated with alcohol use differ among Japanese men and women. Women with light alcohol consumption had a small decrease in heart disease death risk; heavy alcohol users had a much greater increase in risk. Men with heavy alcohol use had a 19 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than non-drinking men. Heavy alcohol use increased the risk of stroke in men and women.
Science Daily – Jul 10, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Newest fertility treatment may be a dietReuters - The newest low-tech fertility treatment may be a diet, researchers said on Wednesday after learning that obese men have more abnormal sperm and make less semen.
Yahoo! – Jul 10, 2008 03:14 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Child Care Factors Associated With Weight Gain In Infancy
Nine-month-old infants regularly cared for by someone other than a parent appear to have higher rates of unfavorable feeding practices and to weigh more than infants cared for only by parents, according to a new article.
Science Daily – Jul 9, 2008 09:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Nine-month-old infants regularly cared for by someone other than a parent appear to have higher rates of unfavorable feeding practices and to weigh more than infants cared for only by parents, according to a new article.
Science Daily – Jul 9, 2008 09:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Obese Men Have Less Semen, More Sperm Abnormalities, And Should Lose Weight Before Trying For A Baby
Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children. New research has shown that men with a higher body mass index had lower volumes of seminal fluid and a higher proportion of abnormal sperm.
Science Daily – Jul 9, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children. New research has shown that men with a higher body mass index had lower volumes of seminal fluid and a higher proportion of abnormal sperm.
Science Daily – Jul 9, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
