by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Obesity and diabetes are linked According to a July 2014 paper from Public Health England, obese adults are five times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes than those of a healthy weight. The health impact of contracting Type 2 Diabetes is...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
You might be surprised to know that Type 2 diabetes prevalence is strongly associated with ethnicity. According to a recent report by Public Health England, Type 2 diabetes affects people of South Asian, African-Caribbean, Chinese or black African descent up to a...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
You may be reading two things: 1. Fruit is good for you 2. Fructose is as bad as sugar so you mustn’t eat it. And both of these things are against a background of it being suggested that we should be eating five portions of fruit and veg a day as an...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease which means that the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Whilst the exact cause is not known it’s generally thought that this is a combination of genetic inheritance and an...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Such has been the growth rate of metabolic diseases that they’re now amongst the most significant in affecting the world’s population. The most well known is probably Type 2 diabetes brought on, it is believed, by obesity or increased fat accumulation. One of...
