Paula Deen May Face Uphill Diabetes Fight
Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who appeared this morning on the Today show to confirm rumors that she has type 2 diabetes, likely faces an uphill battle in managing her disease, experts say. With time and effort, many More...
Weight Loss Surgery May Help Diabetes
Weight loss surgery isn’t likely to cure type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood sugar control, a new study suggests. Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes. Some previous research has suggested that More...
Diabetes During Pregnancy May Raise ADHD Risk
Young children are far more likely to experience attention and hyperactivity problems if their mother develops diabetes during pregnancy and they are born into a poor or lower-middle-class household, a new study More...
Should Dentists Offer Health Screenings?
Each year, nearly 20 million men, women, and children in the United States fail to see a family physician or similar health-care professional but do pay at least one visit to the dentist, according to a new study More...
The Zone Diet
The Zone diet was developed by Barry Sears, PhD, and The Zone became a best-selling diet book. The idea behind the Zone diet is that those who follow it will reset their metabolism, warding off heart disease, diabetes, More...
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers has had an impressive track record of success. Founded more than 40 years ago by Jean Nidetch, this weight-loss company began in Nidetch’s home with a few friends looking for diet support. More...
The South Beach Diet
In the 1990s, Florida based cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD, set out to change the way his patients ate by creating his own healthy diet to protect against serious medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes. More...
The Rice Diet
The Rice Diet, first developed in 1939 by Duke University medical researcher Walter Kempner, has been used successfully to treat obesity ever since. The diet was based on Dr. Kempner’s observation that people More...
The Raw Food Diet
A raw food diet is usually strictly vegetarian, although some in the raw food movement allow unpasteurized dairy products, raw meat, raw eggs, and sushi. A basic belief is that you should restrict food that is cooked More...
Depression Increases Risk of Stroke
People with depression are more likely to have a stroke than their mentally healthy peers, and their strokes are more likely to be fatal, according to a new analysis published this week in the Journal of the American More...