What Doctors Don't Tell YouChildhood diabetes has doubled in the 12 years to 1994, pediatricians at a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital have reported. Further evidence has also emerged that it is a lifestyle condition, and not just ...
DRUG WARS: Making it up as they go
"Diabetes pills lower blood glucose levels. They are not insulin. If eating healthier foods, increasing activity and taking such pills do not lower your blood glucose enough, you may need to eithe ...
OBESE KIDS: The finger keeps pointing back to processed foods
Solicitors for some 400 diabetics who claim to have suffered serious side effects from the use of human insulin have banded together to coordinate what may amount to a multi million pound action f ...
DRY EYE: It could be the drugs
There’s a new group of drugs on the block that’s supposed to be the great hope for treating type 2 diabetes. This family of drugs is known as the ‘peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors’, and its first entrant is a drug with the generic name of...
Q I’ve heard a lot recently about syndrome X, but I don’t really understand what it is. Can you please explain what the symptoms are, who is likely to develop it and how it can be treated? - AJ, Plymouth
Exercise can prevent the onset of diabetes, particularly in those most at risk of contracting the disease. ...
EAT YOUR FISH: It's especially good for you if you are a woman, and di
