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Hillary is not the first overweight child to learn she has this form of diabetes, a chronic metabolic disorder that used to be called adult onset but was renamed in part because so many kids Hillary's age were getting it. As doctors have repeatedly warned, the U.S. is experiencing a diabetes epidemic. Some 18 million Americans suffer from one form or another, with 1.3 million new cases diagnosed last year--up from 878,000 in 1997. And although Type 2 diabetes still tends to strike people in their fifth or sixth decade, more children are getting it, a fact...
...scientist who can figure out why Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant will probably be a candidate for a Nobel Prize. It's not a simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over...
...researchers published the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program (D.P.P.), one of the largest, most rigorous clinical trials ever conducted on the subject. More than 3,000 people from all over the U.S. participated. All were overweight, and blood tests indicated that their bodies were having trouble handling glucose, though none had yet developed diabetes. Half were from ethnic communities that are at higher risk...
...Percentage of dogs and cats in the U.S. that are overweight...
...year study of four popular diets--Atkins (low carb), Ornish (vegetarian, low fat), Weight Watchers (low calorie) and the Zone (moderate carbs)--Tufts researchers found that all successfully promoted significant weight loss in 160 overweight men and women. The four diets also lowered the risk of heart attack, but Ornish did so a bit less effectively than the others. --By Sora Song