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What the Primary Care Provider Needs to Know to Diagnose and Care for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes (Pediatrics)
Published: September 27th, 2016
Dayton and Silverstein assessed what is most essential for primary care providers to know about adolescent patients with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), so that they can help manage and prevent […]
Path Analysis of campus walkability/bikeability and college students’ physical activity attitudes, behaviors and body mass index (Am J Health Promot).
Published: September 27th, 2016
This study assessed the relationship between the walkability/bikeability of college campuses and students’ body mass index (BMI) View article here. Horacek et al. (2016). Path Analysis of campus walkability/bikeability and […]
Overeat today, skip the scale tomorrow: An examination of caloric predicting nonadherence to daily self-weighing (Obesity)
Published: September 27th, 2016
Past studies have found that daily self-weighing is an effective weight loss strategy. This study looked specifically at factors that would influence nonadherence to self-weighing and found that increased caloric […]
Improvement in Metabolic Health with Consumption of Ellagic Acid and Subsequent Conversion Into Urolithins: Evidence and Mechanisms (Advanced Nutrition)
Published: September 27th, 2016
This study reviewed the potential benefits that could come from consuming Ellagic Acid (EA). A growing body of evidence suggests that consuming EA is effective in ameliorating obesity-associated health conditions […]
An Important Talk About The Importance Of Diabetes Awareness
Published: September 21st, 2016
Repost from The Huffington Post, Written by Gabrielle Pfeiffer. National Diabetes Awareness Month is right around the corner, and it brings up the concern regarding how huge of an issue […]
Decreasing food fussiness in children with obesity leads to greater weight loss in family-based treatment (Obesity)
Published: September 12th, 2016
This study examined food fussiness in overweight/obese children who participated in family-based behavioral weight loss treatment. It was found that decreases in FF were associated with greater reductions in child […]
Income differences in social control of eating behaviors and food choice priorities among southern rural women in the US: A qualitative study (Appetite)
Published: September 12th, 2016
This study looked at the role social influences has on rural woman’s food choices. Lower-income women reported taste as the most frequent reason for eating the foods they did on […]
Diabetes Technology—Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Therapy and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Adults: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline (JCEM)
Published: September 6th, 2016
Researchers formulated clinical practice guidelines for both continuous glucose monitoring and subcutaneous insulin infusion in adults with diabetes. View the article here. Peters et al. (2016). Diabetes technology-continuous subcutaneous […]
Effects of Physical Activity Intervention on Physical and Cognitive Function in Sedentary Adults With and Without Diabetes (Gerontology)
Published: September 6th, 2016
In this study, researchers conducted an exploratory analysis of data from a randomized controlled clinical trial of a physical activity intervention to see if physical activity had an effect on […]
Acceleration of our understanding of recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis (Pancreatology)
Published: August 31st, 2016
Researchers analyze the role of genetic mutations and environmental factors such as smoking in obesity in the pathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis, which can occur with some cases of diabetes. View the article […]