A new report by U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin says that exposure to tobacco smoke – no matter how small – causes immediate damage to your body that can lead to serious illness or death. The report, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable...
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Diabetes Rates on Track to Triple
The number of U.S. adults with type 2 diabetes is on track to double or triple by 2050, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s one in three adults. æ Researchers attribute the rapid increase in diabetes to the fact that more people are being diagnosed with...
March 23 was Diabetes Alert Day – Information You Can Use
With my goofy travel schedule I missed publishing this but the information is still relevant. March 23rd was Diabetes Alert Day and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is promoting increased awareness of the diabetes-related preventive services covered by Medicare. Medicare provides coverage of the following diabetes-related services...
Watch Out for This Diabetes Medication
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports that a commonly prescribed diabetes medication is contributing to higher rates of bone fractures among elderly women. The drug thiazolidinedione (TZD) is commonly used to treat insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes. Researchers studied 19,070 men and women, 4,511 of...
Preventing Chronic Conditions Adds Healthy Years
Chronic conditions affect up to 90% of seniors. A new study suggests something that should be somewhat obvious – preventing chronic conditions could both save significant amounts of money and add healthy years to the lives of the elderly. Duh! Chronic conditions include diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Researchers...
Higher Risk of Dementia for Middle Age Smokers, Diabetics and those Hypertensive
Part of the health crisis is the fact that we do not take care of ourselves. Our choices today WILL affect our health and life expectancy later. More proof, in the August 19 Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, it is reported that those who smoke, or suffer from hypertension...