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1. Diabetic bodybuilder sues Redwood City cops in federal court - Inside Bay Area
   The diabetic bodybuilder injured outside a Redwood City movie theater last year by police officers who allegedly mistook the man’s insulin shock for intoxication has filed a lawsuit against the city in federal court. 
2. Common cooking spice shows promise in combating diabetes and obesity
   Turmeric, an Asian spice found in many curries, has a long history of use in reducing inflammation, healing wounds and relieving pain, but can it prevent diabetes?
3. Study Indicates Need For Tailored Nutrition Education For Hispanic Women With Or At Risk Of Diabetes
   One-third of Hispanic women with diabetes living in Connecticut have never seen a registered dietitian or diabetes health educator, and nutrition knowledge was limited even among those who had …
4. KVOA News 4, Tucson, Arizona - Metabolic Syndrome May Be in the Genes
   Your risk of developing metabolic syndrome — a group of factors linked to heart disease and diabetes — increases if you have five common gene variations, researchers say.
5. Diabetes Getting You Down? Women Can Improve Their Inner Care by Focusing on Their Outer Beauty for a Day - Diabetes Health
   The term, “diabetes bad hair day,” is meant to help divas affected by diabetes to keep a positive attitude about themselves and their health during these hard-to-cope situations.
6. Science News / Stomaching Diabetes
   Inserting a gene into gut cells in mice enabled those cells to take over the pancreas’s job, producing insulin after meals, according to unpublished research announced June 18 in San Diego at the Biotechnology Industry Organization International Convent…
7. Poor Children More Likely to Develop Diabetes as Adults
   Diabetes strikes harder at those who were poor as children, according to a new study that spans more than three decades. Participants who were disadvantaged in youth were more likely to develop diabetes than better-off peers were during the 34-year study…
8. Insulin Resistance Affected By Lifestyle Altering Gene Activity
   The findings suggest that lifestyle, more than heredity, contributes to insulin resistance in people who are obese. Insulin resistance increases the chance of developing diabetes and heart disease.
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