A study released the first week of February 2008 hit the media headlines hard. “Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths” was the title of the version I read in the NY Times. The introductory paragraph was quite shocking: “For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they [...]
For those of you who follow the research, you may remember the debate about whether you can be fat and fit and still well off, as far as your metabolism and disease risk are concerned. Previously, researchers had concluded that although it’s best to be “fit and thin,” being “fit and fat” is almost [...]
Did you know that cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease, strokes, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension (high blood pressure) and more, was responsible for about 930,000 deaths in the United States last year, or over 38% of all deaths? And people with diabetes have an even greater risk of developing all forms of CVD since [...]