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The meat and diabetes link
A meat-based diet containing too much acid increases diabetes risk, research has shown.
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Sainsbury fronts up over diabetes
Mark Sainsbury has spent decades in the limelight, but has always kept his twin children out of it ... until now.
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Obesity epidemic: Toxic sugar?
It used to be that sugar was the sweetest, most useful thing in our larder, a crystalline ambrosia that could make almost any food taste better and last longer.
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Red meat linked to diabetes - study
Red and processed meats that have been linked with heart disease and cancer may be a major factor with another disease that's epidemic - type 2 diabetes.
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Charity home
As Canvas’ agony aunts, Denise L’Estrange-Corbet and Pebbles Hooper have been giving advice for years. But privately they have been battling their own demons, they tell Suzanne McFadden.
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Fatty diet wreaks havoc in islands
Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.
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Walnuts reduce diabetes risk
Eating walnuts just two or three times a week can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by almost a quarter, according to new research.
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Diabetic man left alone in park dies
An unconscious 61-year-old diabetic man was believed to have been lying on a Dunedin park bench for a day and a night before he died.
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Surprise for overweight in death study
Overweight people have surprisingly beaten out your normal Joe Average on the mortality scale, a statistical survey of medical studies has shown.
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Diabetes expert 'disillusioned' by disinterest
The Government is more interested in Prince Charles' visit than in finding ways to combat the "major epidemic" of diabetes, nutrition and diabetes expert Prof Jim Mann says.
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Action urged on South Auckland's high baby death rate
Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.
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NZ diabetes company rescued by Japanese cash
The New Zealand maker of a revolutionary diabetes therapy, Living Cell Technologies, has been rescued from closure by a $32.1m Japanese injection.