Paula Deen Pushes her Fatty Cookbook for Kids on "The View"

Obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing among American children.  You might think someone from the Food Network would promote healthy eating for kids, right? "On "The View," the Food Network's Paula Deen pushed...

Avandia Side Effects, Heart Attack Risks

Many of us suffer from type 2 diabetes. In fact there are about 14 million people in the United States who are in this situation and a good number are being treated with Avandia, a medicine designed to increase the body’s sensitivity to insulin. The drug was first marketed...

Pig Cells To Fight Diabetes

A biotech company in New Zealand is conducting experiments using the insulin producing cells of newborn pigs to fight Type 1 Diabetes in humans.They plan to implant the pig cells into human volunteers.  Type 1...

Analysts Announce: Health Care Reform Requires Health Care Reform

Over at my "Public Option Health Care Now Blog", I have just published a commentary on a Washington Post article that tells us all what we already knew:  Insuring 47 million additional people under America's current wasteful and unnecessarily expensive health care regime...

Permanent diet may equal longer life

"With a reduced-calorie diet, monkeys were less likely to die of an age-related disease -- cancer, heart disease or diabetes, reports a study in the journal Science. ...

The next health tsunami: Non-communicable diseases

The next health tsunami: Non-communicable diseases GENEVA: The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) called today on the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to take immediate action...

Elderly Woman w/ Diabetes & No Insurance Told “Good Luck” by GOP

Stop the presses! The Republicans do have a way to reform health care in this country, it's called "good luck!" At least that what former Republican Congressman Tom David told an elderly woman, with diabetes...

Chinese scientists create pig stem cells

A biochemistry and cell biology institute in Shanghai declared that they have succeeded in changing cells from pigs into embryonic-like stem cells.The scientists at the institute claim that the cells were capable...

Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse dies at 62

Wayne Allwine, the voice of beloved cartoon Mickey Mouse for 32 years, has died at the age of 62 from complications with diabetes, with his wife, Russi Taylor, who was the voice of Minnie Mouse, by his side. Mr....

Call for Action to Combat Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases

Call for International Action to Combat Epidemic of Non-communicable DiseasesThe International Diabetes Federation (IDF), International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and World Heart Federation (WHF) issued a joint statement on 19 May 2009 that calls on the international...

Canine Diabetes-Diabetes in Dogs

The symptoms are: excessive water drinking, excessive urination, spots of urine, urine leaking, heavy constant ting, if your dogs breath may smell like nail polish remover or have a smell like alcohol or medicine, if your pet is getting constipated, or if you notice your...

Organic Food: Promoted or Persecuted?

Dr. Elmar Ritzinger is the head of the Directorate for Sustainability and Rural Development in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management. He spoke at  Minneapolis University, as part of the Centre for Austrian Studies...

Healthy tobacco on the horizon

Opinio I am surprised that the funding for this research did not come from the tobacco industry.  I guess the next step is to teach lab mice to smoke.  " Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:37pm EDT     var csvSymbolIds...

Fresh Fruit Anyone?

Wherefore Art Thou Fruit? During lunch, students were asked to define an apple or any other fruit.  While most students are able to scientifically classify the fruits and list their benefits, they are unable...

Irvingia: Anti-Diabetic Weight Loss Supplement from African Mango

Many things are written about supplements that seem wonderful at first. Too often health claims often turn out to be over-blown, which give the orthodox medical establishment all the reason to have become the...

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