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Too little sleep ups diabet...

Original article on News24.com Washington – Increased numbers of workers pull the night shift. Teenagers text past midnight and stumble to class at dawn. Travellers pack cheaper overnight flights. Nodding off behind the wheel is not the only threat from a lack of sleep. Evidence is growing that people who regularly sleep too little and at the wrong time suffer...

Type-2 Diabetes makes up 90...

11 April 2012 Peter Jordaan, Principal Officer of Fedhealth : info@fanews.co.za Statistics released by Fedhealth, based on member statistics, indicate that Type-2 diabetes ranks second in terms of the authorised cost of chronic medication per annum, coming in second to hypertension which ranks first. Figures show that the total annualised chronic medication costs for this...

Putting rice-diabetes findi...

An article by Susan Perry (Original article HERE) Hmmm. … What to do about rice? In recent months we’ve been told that brown rice is more likely than white rice to contain arsenic, a chemical toxin. And now along comes a study that suggests eating white rice raises your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Sometimes, figuring out what to have for dinner seems...

Fat kids crisis due to bad ...

Original Article via The New Age ( http://www.thenewage.co.za/40791-12-53-Fat_kids_crisis_due_to_bad_lifestyle_choices ) Written by: Craig Nossel A decline in physical activity and physical education, as well as poor eating habits and increased sedentary time are leading to a significant increase in childhood obesity on one hand and stunted growth on the other. If not...

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This Campaign started late 2009 when interested parties got together to launch a project to raise awareness about this “Silent killer” called Diabetes. Pieter Cloete (Go Life Health), Jeanne-Marie Louw, Leigh-Anne Baily (Diabetes SA) teamed up and formed the DIABETES FORUM.

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