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[ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! jenna: right now some new information on a few stories were keeping an eye on from inside our control room, and were going to start off with the hong kong-based company announcing it will no longer release a steve jobs action figure. this is something they said they had in production for a while. the company got immense pressure from apple lawyers and from jobs family, of course. steve jobs passed away in october of last year. the queen of souther...

Debt of over $200 billion despite bedes. professional skier matthew jamie pierre was killed in an avenue lanlg in utah yesterday. 38-year-old pierre triggered the avalanc avalanche. pierre set a world record cliff jump in 2006 and has also appeared in numerous ski magazines and films. number of adults with diabetes worldwide has doubled. now that international diabetes federation is predicting that number will double again by 2030. most cases are type ii, the kind linked to weight gain, and ...

Diabetes. their body cannot process insulin directly. some have a pregenetic preddition position for it. the majority develop the condition because theyre overweight. people who carry excess weight especially in their mid section are more likely to develop type ii diabetes because the fat in their tissues causes the imbalance of insulin in the body. the condition is also calledinessliness resistance. some minority groups such as african-americans, hispanic, certain asian americans have a higher ...

American heart association found a drug made out of the saliva of a lizard known as the gila monday store that helps diabetics keep glucose levels down while helping them lose weight. there are always things being developed and other drugs in the research pipeline. even with new technologies, diabetics can become ill. what might surprise you is that one of the most common and dangerous problems are injuries of the foot because diabetes constricts the blood vessels and can damage the nerves causi...

Associated with lifestyle changes. too much weight. what is the misconception -- is there a misconception about diabetes? people always say to me if you eat a lot of sugar, you will get diabetes. perhaps. thats because of obesity, right? what are other misconceptions about diabetes? >> i think thats a major misconception. when it comes down to obesity, its consuming more calories than your body burns and obesity independent of how you got there, whether you ate too much sugar, too much fat, too ...

Its really troubling for whats both the individual consequences for the children who suffer from this but the economic consequences of type ii diabetes for our country. >> there are foods out there that are obviously worse for you, and theyre plentiful, especially in urban locations. what do you do about that? its easy to get on healthy food is what im saying. its cheap. easily assessable. what should be done about that? >> theres an impending national menu labeling law which i think will help t...

First place. diabetes is caused when theres too much glucose or sugar in the body. we of course get sugar from the things that we eat and the body is designed to process sugar so it can enter our cells and provide us with energy. glucose cant enter our cells without insulin. thats a hormone thats produced by the pancreas. if you have diabetes, your body is not making any or enough insulin or cant properly use the insulin its producing. as a result, you get too much sugar, stays in the blood and ...

To adults as well. one is to decrease portion size. we have a portion distortion going on in this country about whats an appropriate portion to consume. that would be one thing. i think simplicity counts here. worry less about fat, fiber, carbohydrates, proeven if protein and whatever youre eating, eat a little bit less and make a small change. second, spend less time in front of screens whether it is watching dvds, computer games, tv. that will make a big difference. the third factor would be t...

His parents had diabetes. his siblings had it. when he was told he had type ii diabetes in 1996, he was in denial. >> i was really shocked. i kind of didnt believe it. all those in my family because because i was kind of asymptomat asymptomatic. i hadnt had any symptoms. >> it took howard a year to go to a diabetes specialist because he didnt want to conform to the lifestyle. >> diabetes, thats a headache. i mean, you have to control your diet and so much stuff. >> jonathan lakes father died of ...

Likelihood. you say type 1 versus type 2. type 1 was considered juvenile or kids because of genetic causes and type 2 because of lifestyle changes but were seeing kids develop diabetes that was traditionally associated with lifestyle changes. too much weight. is there a misconception about diabetes? if you eat a lot of sugar, you will get diabetes. perhaps. thats because of obesity, right? what are other misconceptions about diabetes? >> i think thats a major misconception. when it comes down to...