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| Increasing Physical Activity And Limiting Television May Lead To Reduction In Type 2 Diabetes Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that reducing time spent watching television and increasing time spent walking briskly or engaged in vigorous physical activity may reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes in African-American women. These findings appear on-line in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and affects an estimated 20.6 million people. medicalnewstoday.com |
Diabetes Risk In Aboriginal Canadians: Metabolic Syndrome Can Help With Identification Metabolic syndrome is the clustering of risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease, such as obesity, high cholesterol, high glucose and hypertension. Aboriginal Canadians have a 3-5 times higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes compared with non-Aboriginal Canadians. The 10-year study involved 492 residents from the Sandy Lake First Nation community in Ontario. It found that the 10-year incidence of diabetes was 17.5%, which increased with age from 10. medicalnewstoday.com |
Roux-en-Y Weight Loss Surgery Raises Kidney Stone Risk The most popular type of gastric bypass surgery appears to nearly double the chance that a patient will develop kidney stones, despite earlier assumptions that it would not, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study. The overall risk, however, remains fairly small at about 8 percent. As rates of morbid obesity have climbed in recent years, so has the popularity of various weight-loss operations, with more than 200,000 patients expected to have one of these procedures this year. medicalnewstoday.com |
Folate-rich diet cuts women's colon cancer risk (Reuters) Reuters - Eating plenty of folate may sharply reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, at least for women, South Korean researchers report. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Alabamians Gear Up For Fourth Statewide Weight-loss Campaign Over the last four years, Alabamians have almost lost 500,000 pounds, but according to health experts, that's just a drop in the bucket when considering the state's problem with obesity. Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention peg Alabama's adults as the second most obese in the nation, a ranking that had dropped to third, but quickly inched back up... mnt.to |