Our understanding of fats – including which ones are actually good for us – is evolving. We know for example that red meat and meat products, cakes and biscuits, which are rich sources of saturated fatty…
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Cooler temperatures increase the amount of heat-generating brown fat in people, according to research from Sydney being presented…
Aboriginal patients with chronic disease are having $1,700 too little spent on them, according to a study published today…
The number of people with diabetes in the UK has more than doubled over the past two decades, with more than 3.8 million people currently affected. Around 10% of them have Type 1 diabetes, which is caused…
Researchers have discovered an enzyme which, when suppressed, promotes insulin secretion and reduces hyperglycaemia associated…
New research shows Generation X will overtake Baby Boomers for poor health if current trends, including rates of obesity…
A virus that commonly causes diarrhoea in children may accelerate the development of type 1 diabetes, new research shows…
People who are newly diagnosed with diabetes are at greater risk of having pancreatic cancer. Diabetes continues to be associated…
“The optimist”, wrote American fantasy fiction writer James Branch Cabell, “proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” Reading about the global food…
Cancer patients who are also diabetic may be up to four times more likely to die prematurely than those with cancer only…
Shivering is not an activity many of us enjoy. We do it because we are cold and uncomfortable. But perhaps the news that it could have some of the same benefits as moderate bouts of exercise will stop…
Google has teamed up with researchers at the University of Washington to create a contact lens that can measure blood glucose levels in a person’s tears and display the reading on their mobile phone. If…
This could have been such a yawn. Is sugar the “toxic drug” or fat “the deadly ingredient”? Is it yet more popularised quasi-science, claiming life-threatening consequences from foods we eat every day…
As a medical student in India in the early 1980s, the biggest problems I encountered were under-nutrition, sanitation, high burden of infectious diseases and woefully inadequate vaccination of children…
Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce. It’s a completely unnecessary part of our calorie…
Daily jabs of insulin are a painful reality for many with diabetes. That may change if researchers who have successfully tested oral insulin in rats are able to replicate those results in humans. Nearly…
A genetic deficiency in males has been shown to encourage the onset of a common type of liver cancer and type 2 diabetes…
People who are obese and have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and blood-sugar readings will still be unhealthy and die sooner compared with people who have a normal body weight, according to researchers…
What image pops into your head when you hear the words: non-communicable diseases? The name probably tells you a bit about the type of diseases that fall into this category, even if you may not be familiar…
The hypothalamus has a powerful effect on maintaining blood glucose levels independent of insulin. Since its discovery in…
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor (Hon) at Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Head of Diabetes Clinics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Project Manager, University of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Global Health, Institute for Applied Research, University of Birmingham
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Clinical Endocrinologist & Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
