Category: Health

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Male Obesity Linked to Low Testosterone Levels

Obesity, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes, now appears to be associated with another health problem, but one that affects men only - low testosterone levels. A new study conducted by University at Buffalo and published online ahead of print in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that 40 percent of obese participants...
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Gesundheit

Catherine Price recently blogged about the fact that her allergy medicine, Allegra, might be increasing her blood glucose levels. Since Mike is also taking allergy medication, I wondered if his medicine could have the same effect.
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Obesity: Overeating Is Planned and Designed Into Our Foods

Obesity: Overeating Is Planned and Designed Into Our Foods

Call me late to the game, this book came out last year, but I just read Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Wow! If you haven't read it, you should. It's never too late to tell someone about a good book. I can no longer look at food as anything but salt loaded on fat loaded on sugar.
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Roche’s Lucentis Effective for Diabetic Retinopathy

A nationwide, government-sponsored study finds that people with a common form of diabetic retinopathy can benefit from a medication first developed to combat another potentially blinding disease, age-related macular degeneration. According to EurekAlert the study found that treating diabetic macular edema (DME) with Roche's ranibizumab (Lucentis) eye injections...
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Fat Loss Boosts Immune System in Obese and Type 2 Diabetics

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...
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Wash Your Hands

Lady MacBeth washed her hands after she'd bloodied them. Diabetics should wash before. Having clean hands is always a smart idea and it's a particularly good idea to wash up before you check your blood sugar.
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