On Diabetes World Day 2017, Professor Jaakko Tuomilehto, together with Dr. Roberto Tapia Canyer and Dr. Fajardo Dolci, gave a master class at the Medical School of the University of Mexico, UAM under the title “The Relevance of Genetics in Early Detection of Type 2 Diabetes”. Tuomilehto underlined genetics as key tool in curbing [...]
How to prevent type 2 diabetes? Type 2 Diabetes can be prevented. One of the main risk causes of type 2 Diabetes is obesity, the growing number of obesity cases in our society has shoot up type 2 Diabetes worldwide. Type 2 Diabetes is the most common kind of diabetes (close to 90% [...]
Meat consumption and its relationship with health and type 2 diabetes Between carnivores and vegans there is a gray scale perfectly valid to meat consumption. Keep your eyes wide open. The most recent dietary recommendations are quite negative for meat lovers. It is highly recommended to limit its consumption, overall for red meat [...]
The Spanish city of Murcia leads the battle against type 2 diabetes with DIABETESprevent The city of Murcia, Spanish town with a growing population of 440,000, leads the battle against type 2 diabetes launching a program called “Murcia Diabetes Prevent”, using the innovating Patia prevention program DIABETESprevent that includes an integral system of genomics [...]
Professor Tuomilehto highlights DIABETESprevent as a key tool in prevention of type 2 diabetes Professor Dr. Jaakko Tuomilehto, expert in diabetes, underlines the relevance of DIABETESprevent as a key tool in prevention of type 2 diabetes worldwide. During his presentation – at the 53rd Annual Congress of European Studies for Diabetes, EASD 2017, Lisbon- [...]
Guide to understanding food labeling Food labeling becomes a true jumble of ingredients, calories, grams, percentages and other data difficult to interpret. This post will provide you with tools to clarify its meaning. Nothing worse than having information and have no idea of how to understand it. In fact, it can drive us [...]
Why measuring glucose levels can prevent type 2 diabetes? Measuring blood glucose levels is vital to prevent type 2 diabetes, especially for people who are genetically predisposed to develop type 2 diabetes and people with prediabetes. Why? We live in an obesogenic environment in which it is very difficult to avoid foods with [...]
Six diabetes and food Myths There are no environments such as health and diet where myths spread like wildfire. And in this area, slimming and diabetes stand out above. By Juan Revenga It is terrible. In a world driven by aesthetics, health is second. There is no way to understand the lack of [...]
What foods should be part of a healthy plate? Our diet is worsening so much and the supply of trash food (over salted, over-fated and over sweetened) is so wide that we must make a huge effort to learn back and recognized healthy foodstuff. What kind of food should we choose for a healthy [...]
At present days, almost everybody knows that physical activity is a need to keep ourselves healthy. However, many family´s way of life doesn´t seem to consider that need. Thus, so many parents think that school physical activity time is enough. And it is not. What kind of physical activity fits better for [...]
