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Short legs related to excess weight and diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Being short and especially having short legs appear to increase the risk being overweight and developing type 2 diabetes in middle age, new research shows.

“Our study shows that adult stature can be helpful in predicting the risk of diabetes independently from other known risk factors,” researchers report in the journal in Diabetes Care.

The length of a person’s legs is an indicator of childhood nutrition, which may have long-lasting effects on health, note Dr. Keiko Asao and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Short leg length and low leg length-to-height ratio are two indicators of suboptimal childhood development.

Evidence Shows Low-carb Diet Is Beneficial To Management Of Diabetes
Because it is disease of insulin and blood sugar regulation, low-carbohydrate diets have been an obvious choice for diabetic patients but have been resisted by some professionals and agencies in favor of pharmacologic approaches. Now, medical researchers in Sweden have reported a follow-up study of patients on a low-carbohydrate diet up to 22 months and report stable improvement and reduced need for medication.

UF study sheds light on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
Gainesville, Fla. — A growing number of cystic fibrosis patients are battling a second, often deadly complication: a unique form of diabetes that shares characteristics of the type 1 and type 2 versions that strike many Americans.

Many of these patients are teens who take enzymes to help digest their food and undergo daily physical therapy to loosen the thick, sticky mucus that clogs their lungs. But despite treatments that are helping thousands to live decades longer than ever before, when diabetes strikes, their life expectancy plummets — on average by two years for men and an astounding 16 for women.

Now a University of Florida study in animals suggests diabetes in cystic fibrosis patients is not caused by the destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas — as is often the case in patients with the traditional form of type 1 diabetes — but by differences in how these cells function. The findings were published this month in the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes.

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Top 10 Walking with Diabetes Tips 

Read the 1991 Diabetes Focus article “A Remarkable Life” about Eva Saxl.  (Adobe Reader required)

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