Got type 2 diabetes or prediabetes? It may muddy your thinking as you age. Scientists tracked more than 13,000 adults who were 48 to 67 years old when they entered…
Category: Diabetes and Diet
For diabetes and diet, eating whole fruit may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, while drinking fruit juice may raise the risk. And whole fruit curbs appetite better than…
Diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. But what about blood sugar levels that are elevated, but not high enough to be diabetes? Researchers tracked 2,067 people…
“Diabetes can lead to small-blood-vessel disease. And the eyes have small blood vessels. The longer you’ve had diabetes and the higher your blood sugar is, the more likely you are…
Studies don’t find a lower risk of type 2 diabetes in people who eat more vegetables. (Those studies compare people of the same weight, though. If veggies helped keep you…
People with pre-diabetes who lose weight can slash their risk of full-blown diabetes. Researchers monitored 3,000 overweight people with pre-diabetes—that is, their blood sugar levels were above normal, but not…
Lowering your diabetes risk may be as easy as walking to work. Researchers in Japan studied roughly 8,600 middle-aged men who were working for the same company. The men had…
Many studies that track healthy people for years have reached the same conclusion: “People with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in…
The good news about diabetes: it’s not inevitable. “Up to 90 percent of type 2 diabetes is preventable by lifestyle modification,” says JoAnn Manson, director of preventive medicine at Brigham…
While soda may boost your diabetes risk, coffee may lower it. When researchers followed 96,000 women and 27,000 men for four years, those who upped their coffee intake by about…