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:: DIABETES N EWS
OF THE DAY:
Alexandra Burke: My health factor
03rd February 2010
British
singer ALEXANDRA BURKE is on a strict diet - because she's
terrified of developing diabetes.
The Hallelujah hitmaker's grandmother died from
complications from the disease and her mother ex SOUL II
SOUL singer MELISSA BELL, has kidney failure caused by
diabetes and needs dialysis sessions as she awaits a
transplant.
So Burke keeps a watchful eye on her diet in a bid to keep
diabetes at bay.
She says, "My nan and my great-nan both had exactly the same
thing. I have to be careful - I have to watch what I eat."
Lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking and alcohol abuse are
all contributing to increasing levels of obesity in the UK,
sending the number of people with diabetes “mushrooming”,
according to Professor Anthony Barnett, clinical director
for diabetes at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in
Birmingham.
Further News:
Depression Worsens Diabetes Conditions
02nd February 2010
Research
has revealed that depression furthers the complications of
diabetes. The risks associated with depression include
kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and stroke, but
other factors are obviously involved. Age, race, location
and gender play a large role in the study's results, but
most of the conclusions were the same: depression worsens
diabetes.
The serious complications between diabetes and depression
were studied in the past. There was a study conducted in
2006 on 226,646 people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The
results came from questionnaires and surveys that proved to
be accurate when used for other similar types of studies.
Researchers used the responses of the hand-outs to measure
minor and major types of depression and the intensity of
depression.
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Dr Mark Porter: Should we all be taking vitamin D?
01st February 2010
It
could protect us against colon cancer, improve bone strength
and make us happier. Dr Mark Porter asks, 'should we all
take Vitamin D?'
New research showing that vitamin D may protect against
cancer of the colon is the latest in a long line of studies
suggesting that there is far more to this vitamin than its
traditional role in helping to maintain healthy bones. And
although this new study involved more than 500,000 people
from ten different European countries, it is pertinent to
the UK because so many of us have low levels of vitamin D —
especially at this time of year.
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Health Care Professionals Failing
To Tell Patients They Are
Not Fit To Drive
27th January 2010
Many healthcare
professionals are failing to advise people with medical
conditions that could affect their ability to drive whether
they should get behind the wheel, according to research from
the University of Warwick.
Researchers from the University's Warwick Medical School
have found many healthcare professionals are failing to tell
patients with certain conditions such as diabetes or visual
impairment if they are not fit to drive.
In a study undertaken for the Department for Transport, the
research team explored the knowledge and attitudes of
healthcare professionals towards advising patients about
their fitness to drive. The researchers recruited 1519
health professionals, 358 patients and 55 medical school
personnel to the study.
The research team, led by Dr Carol Hawley, Principal
Research Fellow at Warwick Medical School, found doctors in
training received little tuition on medical aspects of
fitness to drive.
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One in five hospital patients has diabetes
25th January 2010
The
UK’s obesity crisis is putting NHS hospitals under increased
strain from the number of patients admitted with
diabetes-related illnesses, a study has found.
Lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking and alcohol abuse are
all contributing to increasing levels of obesity in the UK,
sending the number of people with diabetes “mushrooming”,
according to Professor Anthony Barnett, clinical director
for diabetes at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in
Birmingham.
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Sitting down for too long 'causes health problems - even if
you exercise'
19th January 2010
Sitting
down for too long can cause a range of health problems, even
among those who exercise regularly, experts have claimed.
Recent research suggests that inactivity increases the
chances of developing diabetes and heart disease,
independently of how often someone works out.
One study found that that the chance of developing
metabolic syndrome, a condition which can lead to diabetes,
rose by 26 per cent for every extra hour a woman spent
watching television, no matter how much exercise she took.
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Most people diagnosed with diabetes 'fail to recognise
warning signs they are ill'
18th January 2010
Half
are left with complications from the disease as a result,
experts have warned.
Late diagnosis increases the chance that sufferers will have
dangerous complications, including stroke, heart disease,
blindness, kidney disease and amputation.
Yet these can be avoided if people recognise signals that
there may be a problem, including a strong need to urinate,
especially at night, feeling thirsty, extreme tiredness,
unexplained weight loss, blurred vision and slow healing
cuts.
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Artificial Pancreas Being Developed for Juvenile Diabetes
15th January 2010
A
major development in helping children with Juvenile, or Type
1, Diabetes. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
announces an artificial pancreas is now being developed and
is expected to change and save lives.
JDRF is partnering with Johnson & Johnson's Animas
Corporation, to develop the first artificial pancreas. We found a mother in Sugar Land, who has been volunteering
and raising money for JDRF, to go specifically toward
funding the new device. Lisa Brettman's 16-year old son,
Trevor, has been dealing withType 1 Diabetes most of his
life.
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Having a big bum, hips and thighs 'is healthy'
13th January 2010
Carrying
extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs is good for your
health, protecting against heart and metabolic problems, UK
experts have said.
Hip fat mops up harmful fatty acids and contains an
anti-inflammatory agent that stops arteries clogging, they
say.
Big behinds are preferable to extra fat around the
waistline, which gives no such protection, the Oxford team
said.
Science could look to deliberately increase hip fat, they
told the International Journal of Obesity.
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Mediterranean diet better than low fat diet for diabetics
11th January 2010
Mediterranean diet is no
diabetes cure, but should be considered a diabetes treatment
or diabetic diet, a new trial suggests. The diet has been
found more effective in helping control serum blood sugar in
overweight patients with type 2 diabetes
than a low-fat diet.
Low fat diet with less than 30 percent calories from fat is
recommended by the American Heart Association, according to
naturalnews.com. The diet contains less than 10 percent
calories from saturated fat and is low in sweets and
high-fat snacks; and high in fruits, vegetables and whole
grains.
Mediterranean diet consists of large quantities of fruit,
vegetables, whole grains, and moderate amounts of olive oil,
nuts, poultry and fish with no more than half the daily
intake of calories from carbohydrates.
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Risk Of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Increased By Smoking
Cessation
07th January 2010
Cigarette
smoking is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but
new research from Johns Hopkins suggests that quitting the
habit may actually raise diabetes risk in the short term.
The researchers suspect the elevated diabetes risk is
related to the extra pounds people typically put on after
renouncing cigarettes and caution that no one should use the
study's results as an excuse to keep smoking, which is also
a risk factor for lung disease, heart disease, strokes and
many types of cancer.
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Using a pedometer 'can cut chance of developing diabetes by
half'
04th January 2010
Volunteers
who used the machines to walk for just half an hour a day
for a year radically reduced their chances of developing the
disease. The findings are all the more dramatic because the
tests were carried out on people at high risk of developing
diabetes.
More than 2.5 million people in Britain suffer from the
condition, which can lead to serious complications including
blindness. Experts predict that up to four million Britons
could be diabetic by 2025, in part because of the obesity
crisis. Already an estimated seven million suffer from
prediabetes, in which blood sugar levels are raised. The
condition puts patients at up to fifteen times the normal
risk of going on to develop full-blown diabetes.
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Coffee and tea can prevent diabetes
16th December 2009
Drinking
tea or coffee reduces the risk of diabetes, according to a
review of 18 studies that covered hundreds of thousands of
people.
Previous research had shown that people who drank the most
coffee were one-third less likely to develop diabetes than
those who drank the least. In the years since then, the
amount of research on coffee and diabetes risk has more than
doubled, and other studies have suggested that tea and
decaffeinated coffee may also be effective in preventing
diabetes.
To update the evidence, researchers reviewed 18 studies on
coffee (including decaffeinated coffee) and tea and the risk
of type 2 diabetes published between 1966 and 2009.
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