Most of the mother-to-be and new mothers know that breast-feeding is healthy for your baby. But, do you know it is of great help to the mother as well?! It has been found that breastfeeding a child for one year may reduce a woman’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 15 percent! This new study is done by Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). The production of milk requires a breastfeeding mother to use an average of 500 calories each day. It is equivalent of running four to five miles. The additional energy required for lactation is associated with short-term changes in insulin, and glucose, According to the lead author and BWH researcher, Alison Stuebe. She said, "Our study supports the theory that breastfeeding may be associated with important metabolic changes that influence diabetes risk… However more research is needed to determine what hormonal and biological factors are involved."
Contraceptive Depo Provera May Increase Diabetes Risk In Women
Latino women with prior pregnancy-related or "gestational" diabetes are risking diabetes.And the reason is the contraception with depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, which is associated with an increase in the risk of the diabetes. Often referred to by one brand name, Depo Provera, Depot medroxyprogesterone (DMPA) contraceptives are given by monthly injections. For Latino women with a history of diabetes during pregnancy, Xiang from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles offers the following contraceptive advice: "If breast-feeding, use a non-hormonal approach," and if not breast-feeding "but with relatively high triglycerides, use a non-hormonal method or low-dose combination pills; try to avoid DMPA.’
Can the Incurable Type 1 Diabetes be Actually Reversed?
If researchers squelch an immune system attack that is causing the disease, severely diabetic mice can recover on their own — three groups of scientists report today. This discovery was first published in 2001 raising the hopes of people with Type 1 diabetes. This diabetes occurs usually in puberty afflicting an estimated half-million to a million Americans. And if the findings applied to humans, they might mean reversing a disease that had seemed incurable! The findings also gave rise to Questions about using embryonic stem cells as replacement cells for diabetics is also kicked up by the findings. And this method is the focus of intense interest. If it is possible, in mice, for the pancreas to cure itself, and if the same finding holds true in humans – which, so far, is entirely unknown – adding embryonic stem cells as the source of new pancreas cells might provide little added benefit, if any.
Ontario to Fund Insulin Pumps for Diabetic Children
Ontario has increased its health-care spending budget by $1.9-billion. And it will become the first province in Canada to fund insulin pumps for children with diabetes as part of budget. Some 6,500 children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes will be provided with the best possible chance to lead a normal lifestyle, according to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, who called it the one item in the budget of which he’s proudest. To provide children suffering from insulin-dependent diabetes, this year, Ontario will spend $12 million and $30 million next year. They will be given access to the pumps that automatically monitor and regulate a patient’s insulin levels. The pumps cost upwards of $6,000 and supplies can run as much as $500 a month.
Diabetic Women Be Aware! You Are More Vulnerable to Cardiovascular Disease!
Here is alerting information for women. Are you suffering form diabetes? Then you are five times more at risk of cardiovascular disease compared to women without it! Diabetes education specialists at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Thursday warned this. To add to this risk, compared to men with diabetes, the rate of deaths from a heart attack or stroke is greater in women. ‘Controlling diabetes requires good management of blood glucose (A1C), blood pressure and cholesterol. Learning the ABCs of diabetes is a helpful tool in remembering how to manage diabetes,’ Michelle Hansen, health systems coordinator with the department’s Diabetes Prevention and Control Program said.
Tom Jennings Urged Veterans to Fight Diabetes
Veterans are more likely than the general population to have diabetes, one of the major complications associated with being overweight, research has shown. To help address the increasingly alarming issues of obesity and deadly diabetes among America’s veterans, the VA and the Department of Health and Human Services are getting together — according to the VA’s Web site. But, how to combat these health issues?! To educate veterans and their families on these, this coordinated operation is geared. 7 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes, and the rate increases with age, according to the American Diabetes Association. Veterans who are on average older than the general population and receiving VA health care, the rate is 20 percent!
Diabetes Risk in Children Increases with Abdominal Size: Report Says
Is your child in line to develop diabetes? How will you know that? Doctors may be able to use a new method to predict whether children are in line to develop diabetes, a new report reveals. "Abdominal obesity is a health risk even though the BMI may not be very high", Dr. Silva A. Arslanian from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh says. He forther says, "Physicians should be aware of this and discuss it with their patients and educate them."
Diabetes Increases Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
The same factors that lead to diabetes may also increase a person’s risk of pancreatic cancer, research suggests. Do you know, high insulin levels and increased resistance to the hormone were associated with a higher cancer risk? This is found by the US National Cancer Institute. But, adopting a healthy diet and lifestyle may help to reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer – the researchers say their findings suggest this. The American Medical Association published the details on it. The findings also confirm previous studies which have linked type 2 diabetes to pancreatic cancer!
DexCom’s New Diabetes Monitor Gets OKed by FDA
DexCom Inc. is a maker of diabetes monitors. And the Food and Drug Administration approved its STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System recently. In pre-market activity, shares of DexCom rose $1.79, or 9 percent to $21.60 above the company’s 52-week high of $20.91 from earlier this month. The STS device uses a tiny sensor to monitor the blood sugar level of people with diabetes. To uses it, the device is inserted underneath the skin and connected to a receiver of the size of a cell phone. The device warns of high or low blood sugar levels. The patients can check their levels with just the push of a button.
Driving Restrictions on Type 2 Diabetics Would Be Eased In UK
More driving restrictions mean more tensions, and hence more increasing risk of diabetes! So, the Department of Transport is to consider easing driving restrictions on people with type 2 diabetes – as Government scientists found some people with relaxation on such condition pose less of a danger on the roads than was thought. Diabetics shouldn’t hold a Group 2 licence, which includes lorries and buses too. And so, those who inject insulin to control their blood sugar level are banned on it. A fall in blood sugar can also affect eyesight and speed of thought and reaction, which also adds on to the banning decision.
