Living with diabetes means tracking your meals and insulin level. The new One Drop app for iOS (an Android version is planned) aims to not only make that monitoring easier, but also use the logged information to help the larger diabetic community.
Swallowing a daily dose of insulin is safe, and it may act like a vaccine to prevent type 1 diabetes, a small new study shows. If the results can be repeated in larger and longer trials, the approach may one day be used to help young children at high risk of the disease avoid getting […]
KIND Snacks, the company behind fruit, nut and grain bars (tag line: “ingredients you can see & pronounce”) have been asked by the Food and Drug Administration to strip any mention of the term “healthy” from its packaging and website, as well as the “+” symbol.
Chronic inflammation is a common thread among a wide spread of conditions like stroke, cancer, obesity, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, arthritis and depression, according to Men’s Journal.
Running is one of the easiest forms of fitness, but that doesn’t mean you’re doing it right. Poor technique, misinformation and bad preparation are common, and can lead to long-term injury, especially in people with Type 2 Diabetes.
Dropping red meat, and sticking to a plant-based diet that incorporates fish may be the key to preventing colorectal (colon and rectum) cancers, according to a seven-year study published Monday. Pescetarians, as they are commonly referred, had a 43% lower chance of getting the cancer compared to people with omnivorous diets.
The question – “What diet should I follow?” – has perhaps never been more confusing, more controversial, or more stressful. There are more diets, diet books, diet opinions, and news headlines than ever before. In reality, no single “diet” trumps them all, especially for people with diabetes.
Missing just 30 minutes of sleep per day could negatively impact blood sugar control, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College.
For the last year, Apple has been the 800-pound gorilla in mobile and wireless health. Stakeholders in the mobile health marketplace have been anxiously watching and speculating about what Apple would ultimately offer with its HealthKit platform and smartwatch.
Diabetics in the study who ate big breakfasts and small dinners had fewer episodes of high blood sugar than those who ate small breakfasts and large dinners, researchers found.
A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that increased fiber consumption provided the same results as the standard dietary recommendations provided by the American Heart Association (AHA) for treating metabolic syndrome.
People who have low levels of vitamin D are more likely to have diabetes, regardless of how much they weigh, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
In a landmark new study, researchers found that babies who consumed the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter each week, starting when they were between 4 and 11 months old, were about 80 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy by age 5.
UCLA researchers randomly assigned a small group of 49 volunteers, aged 55 and older, who suffered from moderate sleep issues to receive training in mindfulness meditation or in improving basic sleep habits. The meditation didn’t require a mantra.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester found that people who ate 30 grams of fiber per day lost just about as much weight as those who followed a more complicated diet.
Dietary supplements are not miracle pills. Extremely few of the claims are supported by good science, even when the substance on the label is actually in the bottle (which we’ve learned we don’t know for sure), and many others have been proven ineffective.
Super obese patients with diabetes may not get the same benefits from bariatric surgery as those who with BMIs less than 62, according to published research.
Carbohydrates in general are the main enemy when it comes to diabetes, but a new study suggests that sugar – specifically added fructose – found in processed foods is one of the main drivers of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
According to the report, published in this week’s Annals of Internal Medicine, more than half of the average person’s waking hours are spent sitting: watching television, working at a computer, commuting, or doing other physically inactive pursuits. But all that sitting could be sending us to an early grave—even those folks who exercise up to […]
Investigators have long sought the answer to a vexing question: What are the biological mechanisms involved in the development of type 2 diabetes? A recent study from Weill Cornell Medical College researchers suggests that the culprit may be a lack of vitamin A, which helps give rise to the cells, called beta cells, in the […]