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Kids With Coordination Disorder More Likely to Be Overweight
The Canadian study included 1,979 children from 75 schools in the province of Ontario who were followed from grade 4 through grade 7. The researchers screened the children for DCD and measured their body-mass index (BMI) and waist circumference.
Compared to other children, those diagnosed with possible DCD were three times more likely than typical children to be overweight and at increased risk for obesity.
The study appears in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
“Although DCD has in the past been considered part of the normal continuum of motor proficiency or regarded as merely a ‘playground disorder’ that can be relegated to a secondary position in the universe of children’s health concerns, these results, along with other recent research, suggest that this is no longer acceptable,” Dr.
Inhaled Insulin May Help Treat Diabetes
Study Shows Inhaled Insulin May Be an Alternative to Injections for Type 2 Diabetes Patients
By Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Laura J. Martin, MD
June 24, 2010 — Inhaled insulin proved to be as effective at lowering blood sugar levels as standard insulin injection treatment, and with minimal side effects, among patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
Reporting in this week’s American Diabetes Association meeting and in The Lancet, researchers compared two approaches to managing type 2 diabetes among patients ages 18 to 80 from 10 different countries.
Obesity Raises Cancer Risk
Your risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, all increase if you’re overweight or obese.
All these risks are worsened by the global obesity epidemic. In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that 9.8% of adults are obese. That’s 400 million people.
And while heart disease and type-2 diabetes are strongly linked to obesity, another risk is not widely recognized, cancer.
Published in the journal Lance Oncology, a new study found Asians who are overweight or obese are at greater risk of dying from cancer compared to people with normal weight; obesity was associated with a 21% heightened risk and 6% for being overweight.
Particular forms of cancer linked to obesity included colon, rectum, breast, ovary, cervix, prostate, and leukemia.
Researchers followed more than 400,000 Asians from places like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand for four years. His
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“The main focus of the GI Diet is on whole foods,” says eDiets Director of Nutrition Services Pamela Ofstein, MS, RD, LD/N. “The pl