Celebrity Chef Paula Deen has admitted on the Today Show that she has Type 2 Diabetes. Deen is the author of 14 cookbooks, and has two shows that run on the Food Network – ‘Paula’s Best Dishes,’ and ‘Paula’s Home Cooking.’ Each year 7 million people develop diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when [...]

Poor women who made the move to neighbourhoods with lower levels of poverty showed improved type 2 diabetes control and other health benefits say U.S. researchers, who have called for changes in government initiatives to fight obesity. The experiment was described in Wednesday’s online issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers conducting [...]

You don’t have to be morbidly obese with over 100 pounds to lose to benefit from weight loss surgery like adjustable gastric banding. More and more, people with only 50 or so pounds to shed who’ve struggled with weight loss for many years are choosing to have surgery as a long-term solution to yo-yo dieting [...]

A new study showed 78 percent of type 2 diabetic patients experience complete resolution of diabetes after weight loss surgery and over 85 percent saw marked improvements in their Type 2 diabetes, even if it wasn’t cured. Among the different weight loss surgeries involved in the study, adjustable gastric banding resolved 57 percent of the cases of type 2 diabetes [...]

According to an article published today on Reuters.com, U.S researchers have found that following weight loss surgery morbidly obese and super obese individuals with private health insurance lost more weight than those who were covered by Medicare. The study found that a year after surgery both groups of patients had lost a large amount of [...]

The effectiveness of weight loss surgery for moderately obese individuals (BMI greater than 30) has been further validated by a study recently published in The Cochrane Library (2009, Issue 2). This research, which drew upon the results of 26 previous studies, suggested that surgery produced greater weight loss outcomes than more conventional weight loss regimes, not [...]

So here is another article about a study that PROVES weight loss is helping people reduce symptoms of their Type 2 Diabetes and in some cases curing it! This is very relevant information, especially today. Many people I know personally (my mother being one) have suffered from Type 2 Diabetes, and have successfully resolved that [...]

I don’t know about you but I am a penny-saving, deal-finding, sale-busting queen. If there is a sale or a deal on you will prob find me there. I pride myself on being able to find the cheapest quotes, fees and costs… and then being able to brag about it later, like when I found [...]