Diabetes News – Newsletter for December 7, 2010

Video games help lower diabetes, obesity risks in kids

WASHINGTON – Researchers have come up with a unique method to convince children to eat better and exercise more to fight obesity- video games.

‘Escape from Diab’(Diab) and ‘Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space’ (Nanoswarm) are epic video games specifically designed to lower risks of type 2 diabetes and obesity by changing youth diet and physical activity … Read more >>.

Benfotiamine derivative of Vitamin B1 potential to cure Heart Diseases in Diabetic Patients

KOLKATA, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com) — A new research carried on in Bristol University seems to have nice implications for the diabetic patients. An experiment carried out on mice has suggested that a derivative of Vitamin B1 called benfotiamine that speeds up heart attack recovery in diabetic patients.
Persons affected by diabetes have a high risk of … Read more : Benfotiamine derivative of Vitamin B1 potential to cure Heart Diseases in Diabetic Patients.