On AlterNet: diabetes

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "diabetes"

How America Is Making the Whole World Fat and Unhealthy

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. March 7, 2012.

We've exported the worst of our food to developing countries and we've imported the best of their food -- making poorer countries even more worse off.

The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Deen Is Pushing Diabetes Drug

Brad Jacobson, AlterNet. January 26, 2012.

Why ask the most famous unhealthy cook in America to promote a diabetes drug before anyone knew she suffered from diabetes?

Why Eating Meat Could Give You Diabetes

Tom Philpott, Mother Jones. July 6, 2011.

Research is showing that exposure to certain pesticides and other toxic chemicals could cause diabetes.

8 Reasons You Should Stay the Hell Away From Eggs

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. August 27, 2010.

From hideous cruelty and noxious gases to health risks and environmental blight, here are eight reasons to remove eggs from your diet.

8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma Is Banking on

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 16, 2010.

Sleep sweating? Here are some new ways the pharmaceutical plans to make money.

Seven Food and Resources Crises on the Horizon, and What You Can Do About It

Roberta Cruger, TreeHugger. April 8, 2010.

There are big problems facing the food industry and agriculture -- a look at what's on the horizon.

A Solution For Diabetes: A Vegan Diet

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 8, 2009.

More Doctors and nutritional scientists are saying that a diet high meat is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based (vegan) diet prevents disease and is restorative to it.

"When in Doubt, Add Bacon and Cheese": How the Food Industry Hijacked Our Brains and Made Us Fat

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 10, 2009.

The food industry has changed American eating habits and helped create the country's No. 1 public-health issue.

Want to Live Longer? Start Laughing More

Roger Dobson, The Independent. December 25, 2008.

A good chuckle doesn't just cheer us up. Doctors are discovering that it can ease pain and even help fight disease.

Disturbing Diabetes Trends

Barbara Hesselgrave, Miller-McCune.com. November 27, 2008.

The incidence of type 2 diabetes has almost doubled in the last decade. And Hispanics are disproportionately affected.

How the Candidates' Health Care Plans Would Affect Real People

Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. October 13, 2008.

A look at how Obama and McCain's health care plans would play out in ordinary Americans' lives.

Medical Research Recession: Funding Flatlined for Diabetes, Cancer, Alzheimer's

Rick Weiss, Science Progress. October 10, 2008.

The Wall Street bailout cost $700 billion. The entire National Institutes of Health budget is less than $30 billion -- and sinking.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007.

Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.

Now Doctors Say It's Good to be Overweight

David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007.

After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.

Viagra: Not Just for Erections

Roger Dobson, The Independent UK. September 4, 2007.

On the 15th anniversary of the little pill that changed sex lives around the world, a look at Viagra's many other uses.

The Stone Age Diet: Why I Eat Like a Caveman

Jimmy Lee Shreeve, Independent UK. August 16, 2007.

Desperate to lose weight, one person found that only one diet did the trick: that of Paleolithic man. Bring on the meat.

How To Solve the Diabetes Epidemic

Terrence McNally, AlterNet. March 14, 2007.

The government and the food industry know that Type 2 diabetes is linked to lifestyle and diet; yet profit continues to determine food policy, and nutrition remains a scant part of medial education. Dr. Neal Barnard offers a solution to the crisis.