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What contributes most to being at high risk of diabetes – diet, genes or something else? Big research questions need robust research approaches, so let’s break it down.
A key part of preventing secondary medical problems from diabetes involves glucose monitoring. For National Diabetes Month, a researcher describes her work on a self-powered monitor.
Recent research suggests that biomarkers for dairy fat are inversely associated with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Milk may be good for you, but perhaps not as good as recent headlines have suggested.
Your weight during your youth could have an effect on your heart for the rest of your life.
The diabetes epidemic can be fought through new therapies, prevention programmes and effective junk food legislation.
Nutrition expert – sugar does not cause type 2 diabetes on its own.
The days when health messages focus only on exercise that gets us out of breath could be coming to an end.
A recent study was reported to have found that eating pasta wouldn’t make you put on weight, This is actually true, so long as you’re following a low GI diet.
A new study suggests that high blood-sugar levels are an effect rather than a cause of type 2 diabetes.
Guidelines for screening and treating diabetic foot are based on low-quality evidence and this is putting millions of people at risk of losing a foot.
Despite the efforts of millions of Americans, obesity rates continue to climb. Why is it so hard to lose weight and to keep it off? It’s a lot more complicated than just pushing back the plate.
Health care providers often recommend exercise to overweight people as a way to lose weight, but that often does not work. Injuries can occur, and frustration can mount. Can walking with them work?
People with type 2 diabetes are putting their health at risk by not taking their medication because of side effects.
Losing weight is an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, as well as a prudent preventive measure. Beliefs that it’s harder to lose weight when diabetic are unfounded.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
…and then they need to record when remission occurs.
To tackle the increasing burden of diabetes in Africa, health systems on the continent need to be strengthened.
Knowing exactly what to eat and avoid to beat type 2 diabetes can be confusing. More protein? Less carbs? More wholegrains?
Top contributors
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Programme Leader, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Clinical Associate Professor, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Aston University
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Associate professor, Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University
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Project Manager, University of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pretoria
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Head of Diabetes Clinics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Associate Professor in Biology and Biomedical Science, Aston University
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Chair of Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Lecturer, Pharmacy, Aston University
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Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney
