Good health/news
A clinical trial reported at the To quit smoking selenium, whether beneficial or
recent World Diabetes Congress
successfully, try
detrimental,’ says report author
in Montreal found that the drug
doing so while
Saverio Stranges.
dieting.
dapagliflozin can lower blood
glucose levels in this way. ‘Too little support’ for
However, doctors are concerned diabetes in sports,
that the resulting sugary urine says adventurer
could potentially encourage There are too few studies and
infections. Another study too little support for people with
presented at the congress found diabetes who are physically
that patients taking dapagliflozin active, says Austrian adventurer
had a higher risk of getting Gerri Winkler. The 53-year-old,
genital tract infections, though who was diagnosed with type 1
the risk of urinary tract diabetes in 1984, has just
infections was not affected. returned from climbing the
world’s sixth highest mountain,
Cutting diabetes risk: Cho Oyu in Tibet, without the
weight loss and aid of fixed ropes and ladders. In
exercise reap 2006 he reached the summit of
long-term benefits Mount Everest – the longest
Sustaining modest weight loss ascent of all time, as he started
for 10 years, or taking the anti- from the lowest point in the
diabetic drug metformin over world, on the banks of the Dead
that time, can prevent or delay Sea in Jordan, 411 metres below
type 2 diabetes in people at high sea level. ‘Good preparation,
risk of developing the disease, carefully adjusted therapy and a
according to new results from a reliable blood glucose monitor
long-term study in the USA. older people. Those aged 60 and women smokers who shy away enable me to fulfil my dreams,’
The original study involved over cut their risk of developing from giving up for fear of putting he reveals.
3,234 people who were type 2 diabetes in the next 10 on weight. The paper analysed However, he is critical of the
overweight and had high blood years by about half. The results results from 2,233 smokers in attitude of some diabetes
glucose levels. The latest results were published in The Lancet. 10 studies. professionals. ‘The advice that
show that after 10 years, sport is good for people with
modest weight loss coupled The no-smoking diet Cholesterol warning diabetes is usually qualified by
with increased physical activity Trying to stop smoking while on on selenium numerous restrictions on what
reduced the rate for developing a diet sounds like a plan that’s High levels of selenium may they should and shouldn’t do, so
type 2 diabetes by a third. For doomed to fail. But it appears raise cholesterol levels by up many of them are put off sport
the group taking metformin, the that women who give up smoking to 10 per cent, researchers at and adventures.’ n
risk of diabetes was reduced by while trying to lose weight are the University of Warwick have
18 per cent. Expressed another more likely to quit successfully warned. Selenium supplements
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way, the lifestyle group delayed than those following an anti- have become increasingly
type 2 diabetes by about four smoking plan alone, according popular in recent years because
Below: Brazil nuts provide
years compared with placebo, to new findings published in the of claims that they can protect an excellent natural source
and the metformin group delayed journal Addiction. against cancer and other
of selenium.
it by two years. Women whose treatment diseases, although this is not
‘The fact that we’ve continued addressed both smoking and proven. The study found that
to delay and possibly even weight control were 23 per people with the highest
prevent diabetes in people at cent more likely to still be off levels of selenium
very high risk of developing the cigarettes 14 months later. also had higher
disease is certainly a positive Unsurprisingly, they also gained cholesterol levels.
finding,’ says Dr Jill Crandall less weight after giving up. The ‘Further research
of Albert Einstein College of findings contradict current is needed to
Medicine at Yeshiva University, a medical guidelines that say trying examine the
principal investigator in the study. to diet and quit smoking at the full range of
The benefits of intensive lifestyle same time is less likely to work. health effects
SHUTTERSTOCK changes were strongest among They may also be encouraging to of increased
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