Diabetes Alert Day: Know your risk
Even if you have never been personally affected by diabetes, chances are you know someone who has. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
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Diabetes
Ten tips help prevent diabetic foot ulcers
From meal planning to regular exercise, there are a number of ways to help manage diabetes. However, one aspect of the disease that isn’t often
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Timing exercise with muscle fuel switching could help you lose weight
Skeletal muscles change their fuel preference according to a circadian rhythm. Mouse muscles, for instance, use glucose as fuel when the animals are awake and
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Diabetes control: Warning signs and tips to reduce your risk
Educating ourselves on chronic diseases that are significant risks to our health can significantly improve and even save our lives. Although we may worry about
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The hunger-satiety switch
When we are hungry, we eat; when we are full, we stop. Most of the time. Breaking this rule, however, can lead to overeating, obesity
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Managing diabetes during holidays
Living with diabetes can be difficult, and this is often exaggerated during holidays filled with treats, family meals and relaxation. With the possibility of an
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Diabetes Awareness Month: What you should know
With November now underway, many people are looking forward to the holiday season and the great-tasting foods that are often prepared for holiday meals. However,
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Baylor goes blue for National Diabetes Awareness Month
Fall is finally here in Houston. For me, the change of season always provokes reflection. You may have noticed that the Baylor College of Medicine
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Recipe: Black beans with rice offers easy vegetarian option
Looking for a great tasting dish that also happens to be meatless? Baylor College of Medicine Sugar, Heart and Life Program’s black beans with rice
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Discovery of the new hormone asprosin could have potential implications in treatment of diabetes
By Dipali Pathak When Dr. Atul Chopra began studying a rare genetic condition called neonatal progeroid syndrome (NPS) he did not suspect that his discoveries
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