Professionals to Answer Your Diabetes Questions Tonight (KLAS Las Vegas)

The growing prevalence of diabetes has more people concerned over various aspects of the disease including diet. Tonight, you have an opportunity to have your questions answered.

Improvement in diabetes a positive side effect of obesity surgery (CBC)

Many of the people who've undergone obesity surgery have discovered a positive side-effect to having the stomach-sizing operation: a significant improvement in their diabetes.

DMH seminar offers tips, options for diabetes sufferers (Herald & Review)

DECATUR - Local patients seeking to take control of their diabetes packed into the Decatur Memorial Hospital classrooms for the DMH Wellness Center's Diabetes Update 2008.

Poverty Drains Nutrition From Family Diet (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Members of poor households in which it is consistently hard to afford enough high-quality food end up eating nutritionally risky diets, Canadian researchers reveal.

Weight-Loss Surgery to Treat Diabetes (US News & World Report)

Bariatric surgery makes it possible for some people to bring their blood sugar levels to normal.

In brief (Baltimore Sun)

Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome and elevated blood pressure. The syndrome is the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels.

Poverty Drains Nutrition From Family Diet (Health Scout)

Study found adults ate worse than children did in 'food-insecure' households.

Fish Oil Flounders, But Fiber Might Lower Stroke Risk (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Fish oil won't help prevent a stroke, but a high-fiber diet might make a difference, say two new studies designed to assess the impact of nutrition on stroke.

Poverty Drains Nutrition From Family Diet (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)

Members of poor households in which it is consistently hard to afford enough high-quality food end up eating nutritionally risky diets.

Man with Type 1 diabetes scales mountains (Arizona Daily Star)

Will Cross has skied to the North and South poles and scaled the highest peaks on seven continents, including Mount Everest.

More articles:
World Diabetes Day - Home
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH | Children can show signs of future obesity problems (The Columbus Dispatch)
Diabetes Research - American Diabetes Association
Diabetes Research Summaries - Diabetes Medications - American Diabetes Association
Diabetes.am - How is Diabetes diagnosed