Diabetes

Sugar's Role In Rise Of Diabetes Gets Clearer

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:03:00 +0000

Robert Lustig wants to convince the world that sugar is making us very sick. And lately he's turned to an unconventional field – econometrics – to do it.

Lustig rounded up statisticians and epidemiologists to look at the relationship between food and diabetes risk.

Social Media Helps Diabetes Patients (And Drugmakers) Connect

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:19:00 +0000

When Kerri Sparling was 7 years old, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Her family didn't know anyone with the disease, so they sent her to diabetes camp — "where every single camper had Type 1 diabetes," she says.

"That was my first sense of not only other people who had diabetes, but a true community," says Sparling.

Things are very different today.

DeGette: Congress Must Reauthorize Indian Diabetes Prevention

Kirk Siegler — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:59:00 +0000

Congresswoman Diana DeGette says the budget impasse and looming fiscal cliff in Washington poses a threat to the future of a popular federal program that aims to curb rising diabetes rates among Native Americans.

A Dire Sign Of The Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring, Study Finds

Mon, 21 May 2012 04:03:00 +0000

Karlton Hill was only 12 years old when when he found out he had diabetes. Even though he was only in seventh grade, Karlton knew what diabetes was; he had watched the disease destroy his great-grandmother's life.

"I was really upset. I cried," he says. "I didn't want any of this to happen to me.

As Diabetes Rises In Kids, So Do Treatment Challenges

Scott Hensley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:54:00 +0000

More kids than ever have Type 2 diabetes, the kind that used to be referred to as the adult-onset variety.

It's a sign of our sedentary, calorie-rich times. Childhood obesity, a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, is commonplace. For teens, about half of new cases of diabetes are now Type 2 compared with just 3 percent a few decades back.

So what's the best way to treat the growing number of kids?