Think for a moment about a young boy in 1870s New York, born into an impoverished immigrant family, who is swept up in the movement to take destitute ...
A pivotal moment occurred recently when a friend - only 45 years old! - was hospitalized for diabetes related complications. And then the outcome - a...
Approximately 1.6 billion adults are now considered overweight. And with excess weight comes an excess of problems which have a snowball effect on productivity and the health of the nation.
Many poor people in this country are consuming an excess of nutritionally-depleted, cheap calories. This is happening for a reason: We have made calories cheap, but real food expensive.
Fantasy Healthball makes a game out of maintaining good eating habits and committing to regular exercise. It identifies 22 diet and exercise challenges that will lead to better health.
Patients who lowered their cholesterol with statins had higher levels of insulin. Why is that important? Because elevated insulin levels are the first step on the road to diabetes.
Yes, you can snack if you have diabetes When your stomach starts to rumble, you need a snack that can curb your hunger without blowing your bloo...
A healthy lifestyle that includes a low glycemic eating plan, regular exercise and nutritional supplementation can modify the expression of predisposed genes and prevent diabetes.
Diabetes -- one of the fastest growing epidemics in America, and the world -- doesn't have enough health care providers (HCPS). Not even close.
Education has fallen so low as a health priority that it's barely noticed when the lack of it causes devastating consequences, including death.
Obese people are all alike in the way they become obese, but every slim person is slim in his or her own way. That's what you might infer after reviewing the data from F as in Fat.
"Self-management" isn't a term doctors use much when they talk to patients about most illnesses. But with diabetes, self-management, with guidance from a medical professional, is key.
Sleeping fewer than six hours a night is linked to premature death, according to a study published in the scientific journal "Sleep."...
The problem of childhood obesity is particularly concerning and simultaneously vexing to solve because the issue with childhood obesity is not children, but the environment in which they live.
Merck Engage seems to be designed for that segment of the population who is sick, scared, not sure what to do to change habits...and for those living with or caring for those same people.
Science often has a funny way of making people react in a rather unscientific manner, particularly when it comes to something as deeply personal as the food we eat.
All I have to do now is think "living" and I pause. I feel my insides slow and warm and I am overtaken by a deep respect for what I witnessed.
KFC is to food what Glenn Beck is to truth and it's about time we woke up and saw that. Their insidious ad campaigns always show the healthiest, fittest and most vibrant people eating their unhealthy fare.
Congress needs to reassess the US regulatory system for managing drugs. We have entered the era of personalized medicine where the biological traits ...
Our culture has developed this fantasy that people can eat anything they want, do no exercise, and any health complications will be resolved with a few pills or injections. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Think diabetes means you're doomed to a life of joyless eating? Think again. Dr. Howard Shapiro, co-author of Eat and Beat Diabetes With Picture Pe...
After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest diabetes epidemic. One in 10 Chinese...
Combating childhood obesity is this generation's war, and it will require solutions at every level. This is a moment to move beyond the rhetoric, and truly get our kids moving -- and running.
ATLANTA — Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressur...
I was a one, like so many today, with a body image distortion. And I could have ended up with Diabulimia, a condition affecting more and more young women and girls with type 1 or insulin dependent diabetes.
