Monthly Archives: June 2010
Diabetes May Double Cancer Risk in Women
A new study finds that type 2 adult-onset diabetes has a surprisingly positive effect on reducing the rate of prostate cancer in men, but may double the risk of female genital and other cancers.
Diabetic Potential to Create Own Insulin
The results of the research offer the hope that, in future, it might be possible to encourage a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patient's own beta cells to reproduce as a means of replacing those being destroyed by the disease.
Replacing White Rice with Brown Rice or Other Whole Grains May Reduce Diabetes Risk
Researchers have found that eating five or more servings of white rice per week was associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes -- and eating two or more servings of brown rice per week was associated with a lower risk of the disease.
Aspirin Recommendations Changed for Many Diabetic Patients
Experts are now recommending that low-dose aspirin therapy to prevent heart attacks be used somewhat more conservatively - that men younger than 50 and women younger than 60, who have diabetes but no other major risk factors, probably not use aspirin.
