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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
America just keeps getting fatter (USA)
A comprehensive state-by-state report titled 'F as in Fat' shows that obesity rates continue to climb, along with diabetes and high blood pressure.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-obesity-report-20110708,0,3732059.story
High-tech boost for diabetics (Australia)
Treating diabetes in children is about to go high-tech.
Doctors are hoping to revolutionise how children with type 1 diabetes receive their regular insulin doses using a special sensor inserted under the skin and transmitting data to a mobile phone.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hightech-boost-for-diabetics-20110708-1h6d9.html
In the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Use of Novo Nordisk's Victoza is Increasing at the Expense of Amylin/Eli Lilly's Byetta (USA)
Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that although Amylin/Eli Lilly's Byetta currently commands a higher patient share than Novo Nordisk's Victoza, more patients were switched from Byetta to Victoza than vice versa (25.2 percent versus 2.8 percent) in the last quarter of 2010 among recently treated type 2 diabetes patients.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in...lillys-byetta-2011-07-07?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Beating diabetes gave grandad Calum a new lease of life (Scotland)
RETIRED police officer Calum Laurie ate what he liked and shunned exercise for more than 30 years. But a warning from doctors that they would have to up his diabetes medication coupled with the prospect of not being around to watch his newborn granddaughters grow up provided the wake-up call the 56-year-old needed and sparked an incredible turnaround.
http://news.scotsman.com/health/Beating-diabetes-gave-grandad-Calum.6797348.jp
Righteous About a Diabetes Diet (USA)
Recently, we published an article by Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, titled "From Old Dogmas to New Realities. "In the article, Hope voiced the opinion that a low carb diet is not the only dietary option for people with diabetes, and that, in fact, such thinking is an "old dogma." In response, we received a number of strongly worded comments advocating the low carb diet as the only way to go.
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2011/07/06/7219/righteous-about-a-diabetes-diet/?isComment=1
A comprehensive state-by-state report titled 'F as in Fat' shows that obesity rates continue to climb, along with diabetes and high blood pressure.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-obesity-report-20110708,0,3732059.story
High-tech boost for diabetics (Australia)
Treating diabetes in children is about to go high-tech.
Doctors are hoping to revolutionise how children with type 1 diabetes receive their regular insulin doses using a special sensor inserted under the skin and transmitting data to a mobile phone.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hightech-boost-for-diabetics-20110708-1h6d9.html
In the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Use of Novo Nordisk's Victoza is Increasing at the Expense of Amylin/Eli Lilly's Byetta (USA)
Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that although Amylin/Eli Lilly's Byetta currently commands a higher patient share than Novo Nordisk's Victoza, more patients were switched from Byetta to Victoza than vice versa (25.2 percent versus 2.8 percent) in the last quarter of 2010 among recently treated type 2 diabetes patients.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in...lillys-byetta-2011-07-07?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Beating diabetes gave grandad Calum a new lease of life (Scotland)
RETIRED police officer Calum Laurie ate what he liked and shunned exercise for more than 30 years. But a warning from doctors that they would have to up his diabetes medication coupled with the prospect of not being around to watch his newborn granddaughters grow up provided the wake-up call the 56-year-old needed and sparked an incredible turnaround.
http://news.scotsman.com/health/Beating-diabetes-gave-grandad-Calum.6797348.jp
Righteous About a Diabetes Diet (USA)
Recently, we published an article by Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, titled "From Old Dogmas to New Realities. "In the article, Hope voiced the opinion that a low carb diet is not the only dietary option for people with diabetes, and that, in fact, such thinking is an "old dogma." In response, we received a number of strongly worded comments advocating the low carb diet as the only way to go.
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2011/07/06/7219/righteous-about-a-diabetes-diet/?isComment=1
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