Diabetes link to obesity - Evidence to link diabetes or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) to obesity is mounting. Although the condition is, in part, thought to be...

Drugs that may cause diabetes - Cases of chemicals and drugs causing temporary or permanent insulin dependent diabetes are well documented in the medical literature. These and others...

Exclusive breast feeding can curb non insulin diabetes - Breastfeeding could provide protection against non insulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM), researchers believe. Babies who are breastfed exclusively for t...

Salt restriction may aggravate type ii diabetes - A small study of patients with hypertension has suggested that salt restriction may result in insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance or a wors...

Diabetes: a jog a day - Exercise seems to prevent non insulin dependent diabetes. It can also help insulin resistant children of diabetic parents, who usually have a 40 per...

Heels don't have to be high to damage knees - Wide heeled women's dress shoes cause the same if not greater damage to knees as do narrow heeled shoes, say doctors from Harvard Medical School. ...

Childhood diabetes may be due to lifestyle - Childhood diabetes has doubled in the 12 years to 1994, pediatricians at a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital have reported. Further evidence has also emerged...

Antihypertensives: the drugs don’t work - None of the 66 pharmaceutical drugs currently licensed as treatment for high blood pressure, or hypertension, are any better than 'water pills', accor...