The benefits of red wine are irrelevant for obese people. Red wine in small doses is useful in treating a number of diseases, such as diabetes, dementia, heart disease and even deafness. But the new data received by Danish researchers suggest that excess weight blocks all potential health benefits of wine. The study, which was published in the Diabetes journal, involved 24 people suffering from obesity. Hal ...

A stunning new federal report reveals just how bad the obesity-linked type 2 diabetes epidemic in the United States has become, with rates of the often-preventable disease hitting record highs. Some of the statistics are staggering: While in 1995 only three states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had diabetes prevalence rates of 6 percent or more, by 2010 diabetes rates in all 50 states had reached ...

New research confirms that smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels can all raise men's risk for poor circulation in the legs, otherwise known as peripheral artery disease (PAD). According to the American Heart Association, PAD involves a narrowing of the peripheral (outside the heart) arteries, most commonly the vessels of the pelvis or legs. People with PAD are at increased risk ...

Diabetes Mellitus Without Complication in Cats Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism caused by an absolute or relative insulin deficiency. Metabolism refers to how the body digests and uses food for growth and energy, and this process is largely dependent on a sufficient amount of insulin in the body. Insulin is a hormone that is produced in the pancreas, releasing into the cel ...

The proportion of U.S. adolescents with diabetes or borderline diabetes has jumped dramatically since the late 1990s, raising the possibility that this generation of young people may face high rates of heart disease and other complications as adults. As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as prediabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according t ...

Each year billions of dollars are spent in the search to find new cancer drugs. Very few of these would-be treatments end up being approved by the government and entering widespread use, which makes it all the more intriguing that one of the most promising new cancer drugs in years is, in fact, an old drug. Metformin, a diabetes drug, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1995, and since then ...

Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who appeared this morning on the Today show to confirm rumors that she has type 2 diabetes, likely faces an uphill battle in managing her disease, experts say. With time and effort, many people can control diabetes through diet and lifestyle changes alone, without the aid of drugs. But age and a lifetime of less-than-healthy eating may be working against the 64-year-old doyenne of ...

Weight loss surgery isn't likely to cure type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood sugar control, a new study suggests. Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes. Some previous research has suggested that gastric bypass surgery can cure diabetes in up to 80 percent of patients. Gastric bypass, which involves stapling the stomach to form a smaller pouch and connecting it to the small intestine, is consider ...

Young children are far more likely to experience attention and hyperactivity problems if their mother develops diabetes during pregnancy and they are born into a poor or lower-middle-class household, a new study suggests. The study, published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, found that six-year-olds whose mothers received a diabetes diagnosis during pregnancy (known as gestat ...

Each year, nearly 20 million men, women, and children in the United States fail to see a family physician or similar health-care professional but do pay at least one visit to the dentist, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. For this segment of the population, dentists may be the only doctors in a position to spot the warning signs of chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, and pr ...