Diabetes

The nuts and seeds Israelis love can prevent high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart attacks

Lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar, and even delaying the onset of chronic diseases and cancer – you can enjoy all of these through a healthy serving of these seeds.

Sunflower seeds
An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

Oral inflammation may impair female fertility, new Israeli research shows

Type 2 diabetes can be managed and even reversed (remission) or cured through dietary and lifestyle changes, but the key is early detection

3 strange things that happen at night and could indicate the onset of diabetes

Illustration: Diabetes

Pre-diabetes? New study reveals – this combination may help you


'Alarming' rise in diabetes globally by 2050- study

Some countries and regions are particularly badly hit. For example, prevalence rates are expected to reach 16.8% in North Africa and the Middle East.

A person receives a test for diabetes during Care Harbor LA free medical clinic in Los Angeles, California

Children born underweight are at higher risk for Type 2 Diabetes

The study found that for every additional kilo at birth, there is a connection to a 40% decrease in the risk to develop the disease, a trend that continues to the highest birth weights.

 Illustrative image of a baby drinking from a bottle.

Drugs are not a shortcut to weight loss - opinion

Ultimately, all of these drugs were withdrawn from the market because although they were effective for weight loss, they also harmed and killed people.

 THE WORLD Health Organization has issued a statement that Wegovy is not a ‘silver bullet’ for the ever-worsening obesity crises.

Regular aerobic exercise can help prevent type-2 diabetes - study

Even if you are at high risk for metabolic disease. The exercise should make you sweat and be out of breath.

 Chai Lifeline’s Tour de Simcha fundraising bike ride

Ozempic, Wegovy and Saxenda: How do these weight loss drugs really work?

As a new weight loss drug prepares to enter the market, find out how the existing ones work, and what the difference is between all of them.

 Boxes of Ozempic and Mounjaro, semaglutide and tirzepatide injection drugs used for treating type 2 diabetes and made by Novo Nordisk and Lilly, is seen at a Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, US March 29, 2023.

How to approach a prediabetes diagnosis

Prediabetes is not quite diabetes, and can ultimately be eliminated. One expert weighs in with immediate health changes to make to avoid the disease.

 A woman with diabetes is seen using an injection (Illustrative).

Weight loss injections can do this scary thing to your face

The drug Ozempic, originally intended to treat diabetes and became a weight loss drug, can do something horrible to your face as a side effect.

 A woman with diabetes is seen using an injection (Illustrative).

Is ice cream healthy? The strangest finding in nutrition science

On the one hand, studies have found health benefits for ice cream, on the other hand, scientists don't really understand how. So, is ice cream healthy or not?

 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Trauma in childhood could lead to type 2 diabetes in adulthood - study

Researchers suggest that interventions to reduce the impact of childhood adversity could also prevent the development of type 2 diabetes in some cases.

A blood glucose test is done to check sugar levels in a Type 2 Diabetes patient

Weight loss drugs: Everyone wants them, but are they even safe?

Experts have been warning for a long time that weight loss injections aren't for everyone, but a recent study found a disturbing side effect: Increased risk of thyroid cancer.

Woman standing on bathroom scale measuring her weight