Type 2 Diabetes

Vegetables and Soybeans Reduce Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Posted on June 4, 2008. Filed under: Foods that Prevent Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Prevention | Tags: , , , |

This article is taken from Worlds Healthiest Foods at  http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=btnews&dbid=29#article
Vegetables
A prospective study of 64,191 women ranging in age from 40 to 70 years, who were followed for 4.6 years, found those eating the most vegetables—an average of 428 grams (a little less than 13 ounces) per day—had a 28% lower risk of developing type 2 [...]

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Type 2 Diabetes and Pregnancy

Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: Type 2 Diabetes | Tags: , , , , |

I just came across 2 great articles that discussed the obesity/type 2 diabetes epidemic in the younger generation.
I quote from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24315277/:
“Diabetes can be a dangerous complication during pregnancy, endangering the mother and also raising the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects, said Jean M. Lawrence, lead author of the study published in the May [...]

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Type 2 Diabetes Cause?/Treatment

Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: Type 2 Diabetes | Tags: , , , |

Diet and Lifestyle – the root of our health epidemic
I have come across many articles that attribute diet and lifestyle to the rapidly rising type 2 diabetes epedemic in out country. Let’s face it, as our overwieght and obesity epidemic rises, so do the other heath issues such as type 2 diabetes. Could there be [...]

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