Prediabetes is like the two minute warning just before the end of the first half in a football game.  You have those minutes of reflection and then perhaps the entire second half, but if you’re too far behind much of the second half might be a hopeless effort.  This isn’t an exact analogy, of course, but if you’ve...

Diabetes is prevalent in our society and so are carbohydrates.  On numerous occasions I’ve heard people say, “I never met a carbohydrate I did not like.”  Let’s face it, carbohydrates are easily accessible, usually inexpensive, tasty, they can be made into interesting and fancy concoctions, and sadly, they can be a addictive...

Last month the Obesity Society held its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Obesity 2010, in San Diego. A number of prominent researchers, physicians, advocates, and business leaders in the rapidly growing field of obesity research came to discuss and present their recent work and insight into the nature of the global obesity epidemic. Why...

Two things run strong and hard on both sides of my family: heart disease and type 2 diabetes. As a deluge of medical research tells us, the two are closely linked. Often diabetes precedes heart disease, but in my family–particularly on my father’s side–it goes both ways. My dad had his first heart attack when he...