A new study by University of Pittsburgh researchers has found that women who exclusively breastfeed their children for at least one month are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The researchers studied the records of 2233 women, including 1828 mothers of which 56% breastfed their children for at least one month. The researchers...

Eating green leafy vegetables may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. According to the study published in the British Medical Journal, increasing daily consumption of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers investigated the independent effects of intake of fruit and...

A new study by researchers at the German Institute for Nutritional Research in Potsdam-Rehbrücke has found that waist circumference gives a better prediction of diabetes risk than does BMI, EurekAlert reports. Current guidelines recommend that the degree of risk of diabetes from excess weight should be based on the determination of the...

A study by Australian and Vietnamese scientists found about 11% of men and 12% of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, according to a BBC report.  This was in addition to the 4% of people who had been diagnosed. The researchers from Australia’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research blamed...

A new study has found that consuming white rice appears to be associated with a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes in comparison with those who consume more brown rice, according to a EurekAlert report. A team of Harvard researchers assessed rice consumption and diabetes risk among 39,765 men and 157,463 women in three large...

New evidence shows that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes and lower blood sugar, according to a EurekAlert report. In a study, published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists fed either water or coffee to a group of laboratory mice commonly used to study diabetes. Coffee consumption prevented the development...

According to a new report published in the Lancet, taking a low dose of GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) combined with metformin was highly effective in prevention of type 2 diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, with little effect on the clinically relevant adverse events of these two...

Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney Australia have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly in those with Type 2 diabetes. It has been known for some time that excess body fat, particularly...

Many studies have shown that drinking coffee, regular or decaf, with or without sugar, reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A new study, reported by the Globe and Mail has found that when you drink your coffee may have an effect on diabetes risk. The researchers studied 69,532 French women, aged 41 to 72, to investigate...

Millions of Americans may have chronic kidney disease (CKD) and not know it, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. In the study reported by EurekAlert, researchers analyzed a nationally representative sample of about 8,200 Americans from the National Health...