WASHINGTON — International diabetes organizations are calling for weight-loss surgery to become a more routine treatment option for diabetes, even for some patients who are only mildly obese.
BATON ROUGE — A recent study published in the journal Circulation suggests that dairy fats may guard against Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes affects as many as one in four older adults with Medicare. It costs hundreds of billions of dollars to treat, and results in the loss of tens of thousands of lives, every year.
DEAR ABBY: Last year, during her required physical for college, my 19-year-old daughter, “Lacey,” was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. She is in denial and hasn’t seen a doctor since.
Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death by disease in the United States and is a major cause of vascular diseases that result in individuals having a leg or foot amputated.