Healthy lifestyle could help keep diabetes at bay for a decade

October 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from Saint Louis University and Old Dominion University in Virginia have developed smartphone games that would help elderly diabetics manage their health and learn more about their condition. The novel smartphone technology includes interactive games and easy-to-use logging features, especially for elderly Chinese diabetics.

October 29th, 2009 LONDON - The best possible way to keep diabetes at bay is to maintain a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet and ingestion of everyday cheap pill, according to a new US study. The Diabetes Prevention Program study, based on the progress of 3,000 at-risk patients, claims that losing weight and taking a regular drug can keep the disease at bay for as long as 10 years.

October 29th, 2009 LONDON - Rigorous lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss and oral drug metformin can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. Boffins at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

October 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Older adults with type 2 diabetes can improve the elasticity in their arteries and reduce risk of heart disease and stroke with aerobic exercise, a study has found. Dr. Kenneth Madden, a geriatric specialist at the University of British Columbia, examined how increased activity might affect stiffness of the arteries.

October 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Older adults with type 2 diabetes can improve the elasticity in their arteries and reduce risk of heart disease and stroke with aerobic exercise, a study has found. Dr. Kenneth Madden, a geriatric specialist at the University of British Columbia, examined how increased activity might affect stiffness of the arteries.

October 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The diabetes bomb is ticking in India and experts say massive awareness campaigns should be launched by both government and educational institutions. Healthy eating habits should be taught from childhood to curb the growing threat of the lifestyle disease that has already impacted 50 million people in the country.

October 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Individuals living in healthy neighbourhoods may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, says a new study. In the study, Amy H.

October 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - People living in a sporty neighbourhood, with access to healthy foods, are likely to have a lower type-2 diabetes risk over a five-year period, a new study has found. Large-scale behaviour change may be necessary to reverse the diabetes epidemic, but such a change is difficult to achieve and may be unsustainable if the surrounding environment is not supportive.

October 9th, 2009 SYDNEY - Anti-oxidants, popularly touted for health promoting benefits, could also bring on early onset of type-2 diabetes, says a new study. A team of scientists, led by Tony Tiganis, molecular biology professor from the Monash University, has found that molecules known as Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) may play a protective role in the early stages of type-2 diabetes by enhancing insulin action.

October 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Although Chinese herbal medicines has been found effective in preventing type 2 diabetes, experts say more research is required to recommend their use. Scientists have cast doubts on the efficacy of Chinese herbal medicines in preventing type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients.

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is known as the diabetes capital of the world and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad wants to fight that tag -- starting with mandatory diabetes and hypertension tests through easy and affordable test kits for all villagers above the age of 35 years. We have a huge burden of diabetes.

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - All villagers across India over the age of 35 will be tested for diabetes through easy and affordable test kits to reduce the burden of the lifestyle disease, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Sunday. "We have a huge burden of diabetes.

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A regular tai chi exercise program can help people better control their diabetes, says a new study. In the University of Florida study of adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, those who participated in a supervised tai chi exercise program two days a week with three days of home practice for six months significantly lowered their fasting blood glucose levels, improved their management of the disease, and enhanced their overall quality of life, including mental health, vitality and energy.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Friday launched a web portal giving "complete information" on constraints of and treatment for diabetes. The site - www.ddrc.in - was launched by the Delhi Diabetic Research Centre (DDRC) following a study undertaken by the centre on diabetes and its link to depression.

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has shown that childbearing makes women prone to the metabolic syndrome-abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease risk factors-and that the risk is more than twice greater for those who have had gestational diabetes. Cora E. Lewis, a professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, used data collected in the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) study to determine the correlation between a higher incidence of the metabolic syndrome among women ages 18-30 at the start of the study, who bore at least one child during the 20-year period following.