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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Bone 'turnover' link to diabetes
The skeleton is under constant renewal as new bone is grown and old bone broken down The skeleton has a key role in regulating blood sugar and may be the underlying cause of diabetes in some people, say US researchers. A study in mice found that the breakdown of old bone to make way for new bone growth also helps to keep a healthy level of glucose in the blood. A hormone called osteocalcin seems to be the link, it showed. Dr Victoria King, Head of Research at Diabetes UK, quoted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10727169
Diabetes UK Cymru Cares for a Cuppa at the National Eisteddfod
Leading health charity Diabetes UK Cymru is sticking the kettle on to throw a fundraising tea party at the National Eisteddfod. The charity will be throwing a fundraising Care for a Cuppa party at its stand at the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, from Saturday 31 July to Saturday 7 August. Visitors to the stand can make donations for cups of tea and coffee while having the chance to find out more about diabetes. Care for a Cuppa mentioned; Dai Williams quoted.
http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/diabetes-uk-cymru-cares-cuppa-national-eisteddfod
Jack and Harry Brown cycle across England in aid of Diabetes UK
A SCHOOLBOY and his 70-year-old granddad have cycled the breadth of the country to raise funds for Diabetes UK. Jack Brown, 14, from Tadcaster, and his granddad, Harry Brown, completed the epic 140-mile journey from Whitehaven to Sunderland in four days, passing through the Lake District, the Northern Pennines and the Durham Dales.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features...across_England_in_aid_of_Diabetes_UK/?ref=rss
UK health gap between rich and poor widest ever
Review of deaths between 1921 and 2007 shows inequality is increasing with the poorest more likely to die younger. The gap between the health of the rich and the poor is greater now than at any time since records began, research has shown. Government initiatives over the past few decades have done little or nothing to close the gap between the life expectancy of poor people compared with those who are wealthy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/23/uk-health-gap-widest-ever
NHS reports fall in drug, tobacco and alcohol use among schoolchildren
Fewer schoolchildren are smoking, drinking or taking drugs, according to an NHS report which contradicts the widespread belief that such behaviour is increasingly popular with young people. The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who have taken drugs on at least one occasion has fallen from 29% in 2001 to 22% last year. And the proportion who admit to having ever used alcohol has dropped from 61% in 2003 to 51% in 2009. But the biggest decline has been in smoking. When the study began in 1982 53% of participants said they had smoked at least once, down to 29% last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/22/drugs-alcohol-smoking-school-children
NHS tells cancer boy, 5, he is 'too fat'... after putting on TWO POUNDS during chemotherapy
A gruelling course of chemotherapy caused his weight to plummet to just two stone.
So when five-year-old cancer patient Lewis Mighty put on a few pounds, his mother was overjoyed. Until, that is, she received a letter from the NHS bluntly telling her that Lewis was overweight. With astonishing insensitivity, it warned her that he was at risk of cancer - despite being just two pounds over his recommended weight.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...5-told-NHS-fat--runs-risk-getting-cancer.html
Breakthrough in the battle to conquer coeliac disease
The mystery of coeliac disease has been cracked by scientists, paving the way for treatments for the condition that blights the lives of millions of people. The intolerance to gluten, the main protein in wheat, rye and barley, causes the immune system to attack the gut. Now British and Australian scientists have pinpointed why the protein can be so toxic.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1296647/Breakthrough-battle-conquer-coeliac-disease.html
The skeleton is under constant renewal as new bone is grown and old bone broken down The skeleton has a key role in regulating blood sugar and may be the underlying cause of diabetes in some people, say US researchers. A study in mice found that the breakdown of old bone to make way for new bone growth also helps to keep a healthy level of glucose in the blood. A hormone called osteocalcin seems to be the link, it showed. Dr Victoria King, Head of Research at Diabetes UK, quoted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10727169
Diabetes UK Cymru Cares for a Cuppa at the National Eisteddfod
Leading health charity Diabetes UK Cymru is sticking the kettle on to throw a fundraising tea party at the National Eisteddfod. The charity will be throwing a fundraising Care for a Cuppa party at its stand at the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, from Saturday 31 July to Saturday 7 August. Visitors to the stand can make donations for cups of tea and coffee while having the chance to find out more about diabetes. Care for a Cuppa mentioned; Dai Williams quoted.
http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/diabetes-uk-cymru-cares-cuppa-national-eisteddfod
Jack and Harry Brown cycle across England in aid of Diabetes UK
A SCHOOLBOY and his 70-year-old granddad have cycled the breadth of the country to raise funds for Diabetes UK. Jack Brown, 14, from Tadcaster, and his granddad, Harry Brown, completed the epic 140-mile journey from Whitehaven to Sunderland in four days, passing through the Lake District, the Northern Pennines and the Durham Dales.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features...across_England_in_aid_of_Diabetes_UK/?ref=rss
UK health gap between rich and poor widest ever
Review of deaths between 1921 and 2007 shows inequality is increasing with the poorest more likely to die younger. The gap between the health of the rich and the poor is greater now than at any time since records began, research has shown. Government initiatives over the past few decades have done little or nothing to close the gap between the life expectancy of poor people compared with those who are wealthy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/23/uk-health-gap-widest-ever
NHS reports fall in drug, tobacco and alcohol use among schoolchildren
Fewer schoolchildren are smoking, drinking or taking drugs, according to an NHS report which contradicts the widespread belief that such behaviour is increasingly popular with young people. The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who have taken drugs on at least one occasion has fallen from 29% in 2001 to 22% last year. And the proportion who admit to having ever used alcohol has dropped from 61% in 2003 to 51% in 2009. But the biggest decline has been in smoking. When the study began in 1982 53% of participants said they had smoked at least once, down to 29% last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/22/drugs-alcohol-smoking-school-children
NHS tells cancer boy, 5, he is 'too fat'... after putting on TWO POUNDS during chemotherapy
A gruelling course of chemotherapy caused his weight to plummet to just two stone.
So when five-year-old cancer patient Lewis Mighty put on a few pounds, his mother was overjoyed. Until, that is, she received a letter from the NHS bluntly telling her that Lewis was overweight. With astonishing insensitivity, it warned her that he was at risk of cancer - despite being just two pounds over his recommended weight.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...5-told-NHS-fat--runs-risk-getting-cancer.html
Breakthrough in the battle to conquer coeliac disease
The mystery of coeliac disease has been cracked by scientists, paving the way for treatments for the condition that blights the lives of millions of people. The intolerance to gluten, the main protein in wheat, rye and barley, causes the immune system to attack the gut. Now British and Australian scientists have pinpointed why the protein can be so toxic.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1296647/Breakthrough-battle-conquer-coeliac-disease.html