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A collaborative project between the University of Gothenburg and the University of Oxford looked at the significance of blood sugar levels in the first years after diagnosis with type 2 diabetes. Scientists found that diabetics benefit from getting control of their blood sugar fast, much…

I read a study the other day that showed that two out of every five Americans who die from covid-19 are diabetic. It makes diabetes one of the highest risk conditions in the pandemic. It's sobering that while only 10% of the US population suffers…

While reading an article about the link between diabetes and dementia - which apparently doubles in type 2 diabetics - I came across something interesting in Life's Simple 7. It's a list of seven steps that you can take to improve cardiovascular health recommended by…

I'm taking a summer course in dystopian fiction. This week we're reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, which annoys me no end. It presents organ transplants as a route to life extension in a near-future England, where human clones serve as the donors. The…

A recent study from the American Society for Nutrition found no association between eating red meat and the risk of early death, cancer, stroke, or heart disease. The study was quite large, with 134,297 individuals from low-, middle-, and high-income countries participating. In total, there…