Diabetes

Diabetes Cases Double to 347 Million Worldwide Nearly 10 percent of adults worldwide have diabetes, and new research suggests the rate of new cases is rising rapidly. Over the past three decades, the number of adults with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes worldwide has more than doubled, jumping from 153 million in 1980 to 347 million today. (Type 1 diabetes means the body produces too little or no insulin, while type 2 is linked to excess weight or inactivity.) About 70 percent of the increase is due to an aging population—since diabetes typically hits in middle age—while the remaining 30 percent is explained by the obesity epidemic,...

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How To Lose Weight

With the world, as a whole, said to be struggling with an "obesity epidemic," it is perhaps no wonder that the weight loss industry is now quoted as being worth tens of billions of dollars a year. We seem to be bombarded on almost a daily basis by new diets, exercise programmes and magazine pictures of celebrities showing off their 'amazing new body.' For those people looking to improve their overall health and lose weight, we will go through some of the reasons for losing weight and some of the methods to help you intentionally do it. People can lose weight for many reasons, perhaps intentionally through exercise training for a sports...

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Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice

Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice A cancer drug has succeeded in reversing Alzheimer's disease in its early stages in mice, according to a new study. The drug, bexarotene, is designed to reduce levels of amyloid beta, the protein whose presence in the brain has been most closely tied to the development of Alzheimer's. In a new study, mice treated with bexarotene saw their amyloid beta levels drop 25 percent within six hours and, importantly, they showed a corresponding improvement in their cognitive function. "The data we provide here really suggest that Alzheimer's could be, in the early stages, a reversible disease," said study author Paige Cramer, a doctoral student in neuroscience at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. The researchers used mice that had a mouse...

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