The debate on whether the calories that
people with or without diabetes drink help to make us feel full isn't
over. But the evidence that they don't is mounting. My preliminary article, "Drinking Calories," appeared here last September. At that time I reported on the finding of obesity researcher Barbara Rolls.
“Calorie intake increased... Read more
Our national obesity
epidemic didn't just happen. The people who study the statistics agree
with Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
that before the early 1970s, the prevalence of obesity was relatively
constant in the United States. As he told the 63rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association... Read more
Just before lunch this afternoon I checked out the new FreeStyle Freedom Lite blood glucose monitoring system from Abbott Diabetes Care. The company's public relations firm, Fleishman-Hillard, was nice enough to send me one of the first of these cute little meters and 10 test strips.After
carefully washing my hands, I quickly used one test strip... Read more
Guys named Ed probably don't feel honored to
have one of the most devastating complications of diabetes named after
then. But erectile dysfunction -- or just ED for short -- is both
personally ego-destroying and all too common. At least they don't say nowadays that ED is the same as impotence.From 15 million to 30 million American men suffer... Read more