Diabetes Diet Article

Overweight, Obesity, and Weight-Loss

More than 60 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the number of overweight people has been slowly climbing since the 1980s, the number of obese adults has nearly doubled since then.

Excess weight and physical inactivity account for more than 300,000 premature deaths each year in the United States, second only to deaths related to smoking, says the CDC. People who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, gallbladder disease and joint pain caused by excess uric acid (gout). Excess weight can also cause interrupted breathing during sleep (sleep apnea) and wearing away of the joints (osteoarthritis).

To address the public health epidemic of being overweight or obese, former Surgeon General David Satcher issued a "call to action" in December 2001. Satcher's report, The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, outlined strategies that communities can use in helping to address the problems. Those options included requiring physical education at all school grades, providing more healthy food options on school campuses, and providing safe and accessible recreational facilities for residents of all ages.

http://www.diabetestestingcenter.com

Pre Diabetes Diet News


pre diabetes diet

When you have diabetes, your body has trouble turning the food you eat into energy. Learn how insulin helps break down sugar, and what happens when you have diabetes. Sugar metabolism is the process of turning the energy from the foods you eat into ...

Read more



Diabetes and Sugar Metabolism - Gather.com

Bob Greene, personal trainer to Oprah Winfrey, explains his personal mission to help prevent people from being added to those statistics on FOX 26 Morning News Extra. Greene's latest book, "The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes ...

Read more



Fighting Diabetes the 'Greene' Way - MyFox Houston

Bob Greene, best known as Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer, will be at the Kroger Marketplace in Frisco 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday to sign copies of his latest release “The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes” along with ...

Read more



Business Briefs: Oprah’s trainer in town - Star Community Newspapers

John Berardi turned me into a rabbit. He's not a magician; he's a fit man with a PhD in exercise and nutritional biochemistry, and I first interviewed him in the summer of 2007. After that meeting, I started eating veggies all day long. Even at ...

Read more



How to get 10 servings of fruits and veggies every day - Windsor Star

The Allston-Brighton Kiwanis Club will be distributing a “Playbill” style program for its talent show on Feb. 27 with brief biographies about the performers and other interesting information about the club and the event. The public is invited to ...

Read more



Allston-Brighton Community Notes - Allston/Brighton TAB

On Dec. 10, Lori Henderson was at work, attending a meeting, when she began to feel very warm. Henderson, a manager at Northrop Grumman Corp., excused herself and went to the restroom to cool down, placing her wrists under a stream of cold water. She ...

Read more



Study Raises Awareness Of Women’s Heart Health - Gazette Newspapers

It was the straw that broke the camel's back. The ad on television for General Mills' cereals was seemingly benign. Just more marketing of sugary cereals to kids under the guise they are healthy and have whole grains in them. But now they have added ...

Read more



General Mills Declares War On Our Kids' Health - Huffingtonpost.com

The United States has greatly improved stroke care in the last decade, the American Stroke Association says in a new report. But now more focus must be placed on prevention and recovery, the report says. The association's main goal is to reduce ...

Read more



News Review From Harvard Medical School -- Stroke Group Sets Goals for ... - InteliHealth

Of the estimated 35 million yearly deaths from noncommunicable disease, around 15.8 million, or 40%, are premature deaths from preventable heart attacks, strokes ... big four risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and the ...

Read more



Prevention is best option to tackle noncommunicable diseases - World Health Organization

We believe this will help consumers' willingness to get tested -- and help us battle a deadly and dangerous disease." Some 40% of people with pre-diabetes will become fully diabetic in 3-8 years, if they don't take action. Yet this is not just a ...

Read more


Pre Diabetes Diet Links