Type 2 diabetes

1 in 3 men too fat to see their you know what

Posted on 11/9/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthMen, when you take off your clothes and look down, can you see your, um, manhood? If you can’t, you’re too fat. That’s the crude but effective test a British health-advocacy group says can let men know they have too much dangerous belly fat. The campaign is dubbed The Big Check and is based on the group’s  survey of 1,000 British men ages 35 through 60 that found that one in three couldn’t see their genitals because the view was …

Surprise Ending: Huge Diabetes Study Stops Early

Posted on 10/22/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthFor overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes, the oft-repeated advice is to get some exercise and lose some weight to lower the increased risk of heart disease. But a large federal study designed to prove this advice really works has ended early because weight loss and moderate exercise didn’t have the expected benefit. Details of the massive study have yet to be published, but the National Institutes of Health (NIH) pulled the plug on the study two years …

Alzheimer’s: Is It Diabetes of the Brain?

Posted on 09/28/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthCould what we eat be killing our brains? Or, to put it another way, could Alzheimer’s really be Type 3 diabetes? The theory is that the factors in our diet and the environment that’s causing the Type 2 diabetes epidemic is also playing a role in the increasing rate of Alzheimer’s — resulting in a third form of diabetes, Type 3 brain diabetes. It’s an intriguing — some might say controversial — theory. In any case, it’s certainly one more …

New Diet Pill Belviq: 5 Things You Should Know

Posted on 07/9/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBelviq, the first new prescription weight-loss pill in 13 years, won approval last week from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, generically known as lorcaserin, works as an appetite-suppressant, triggering receptors in the brain that make people feel full. It offers a new diet aid to the one in three Americans who are obese. Don’t expect dramatic results, however, as the Washington Post notes. In the three trials of almost 8,000 overweight and obese people over 52 to 104 …

Paula Deen Gets Healthy, Sheds 30 Pounds

Posted on 06/28/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthThe secret to losing weight? Getting paid millions to be the public (non-pudgy) face of a diabetes drug campaign. Evidently, that has worked for celebrity chef Paula Deen, doyenne of Southern fried everything, who has lost 30 pounds since revealing six months ago  she had Type 2 diabetes and would be promoting a new diabetes drug. You can see her newly svelte self on the cover of People magazine on Friday. Since sharing her diabetes diagnosis, she tells People magazine …