Obesity is a growing problem around the world with more people becoming obese and at a younger age.
Scientists found a way to use tears instead of drawing blood to test patient’s sugar levels.
India still strives to feed all of more than a billion population but childhood obesity and diabetes noted among the middle classes, who have largely benefited from a decade of expanding economic growth.
The traditional method of testing blood sugar levels involves painful pricks on the fingers to draw blood for testing. The inconvenient and painful process may somehow leave diabetics lax in their testing.
Rice is not a staple food in the US and the Harvard study is one of the first to distinguish between white rice and brown rice consumption in the country.
Scientists have already suspected that a poor diet during pregnancy of a mother can result in health problems such as diabetes for her offspring later in life.
Among the different types of cancers, colorectal cancer ranks sixth overall, fifth among males and seventh among females as the leading cause of death among Filipino men and women, according to the Department of Health (DOH). Some 2,657 deaths were reported in 2005 due to colorectal cancer.
Glycemic index (GI) is a classification of food based on the blood glucose response to a food relative to a standard glucose solution.