AHA - Three different weight-loss diets - a low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet - were equally effective in helping overweight people to reverse atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries after losing moderate amounts of weight and improving their blood pressure, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers [...]

AASMNET.org - African–American and Hispanic young adults with too much sleep or too little sleep had greater increases in belly fat over a five-year period compared with those who reported sleeping six to seven hours a night, according to a new study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal SLEEP.
In individuals under 40, [...]

AASMNET.org - Frequent napping is associated with an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in an older Chinese population, according to a study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal Sleep.
Results show that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 36 percent higher (adjusted odds ratio = 1.36) in [...]

AHA - More Americans now drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks daily, and this increase in consumption has led to more diabetes and heart disease over the past decade, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (Abstract P365).
Using the Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Policy [...]

The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9, 2010 issue of Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably [...]

MUHC.ca - Vitamin D, readily available in dietary supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, led a team of scientists from McGill University and the Université de Montréal who presented their findings about vitamin D and [...]