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Diabetes: a delicate balance

Can an extreme low-calorie diet help to reverse diabetes? How about a dip in the Dead Sea? This week we take a look at promising research into the chronic disease, timed to coincide with World Diabetes Day.

HEALTH

By Mairead DUNDAS

We start in the United Kingdom, where researchers from Newcastle University appear to have cured patients with obesity-related Type 2 diabetes using a drastic diet. The discovery overturns previous assumptions that this form of diabetes is a lifelong illness.

Next, we head to Haiti where the prevalence of the disease is high but the level of care is low. Our reporters investigate the diabetes of malnutrition.

Finally, we uncover an unlikely treatment in Israel. A team of medical scientists have conducted a pilot study which suggests that taking a 20-minute swim in the Dead Sea helps lower patients’ blood glucose levels.

Mairead Dundas

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Drugs that worsen diabetes

by Anonyme - 15/11/2011 - 18:19

Be aware of drugs that potentiate diabetes.
Eli Lilly Zyprexa Olanzapine issues linger.

PTSD treatment for Veterans found ineffective.

The use of powerful antipsychotic drugs has increased in children as young as three years old. Weight gain, increases in triglyceride levels and associated risks for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The average weight gain (adults) over the 12 week study period was the highest for Zyprexa—17 pounds. You’d be hard pressed to gain that kind of weight sport-eating your way through the holidays.One in 145 adults died in clinical trials of those taking the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa.
This was Lilly's # 1 product over $ 4 billion per year sales,moreover Lilly also make billions on drugs that treat the diabetes often that has been caused by the zyprexa!
--- Daniel Haszard Zyprexa victim activist and patient.
FMI zyprexa-victims(dot)com

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