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Preventive Healthcare to be made available for free

Thu, 15/07/2010 - 21:43 by Samia Sehgal

Preventive healthcare services including immunizations, colonoscopies, cancer screenings and dietary counseling will be made available for free, under the new insurance plans starting in September.

Study suggests type 2 diabetics eat poorly

Sat, 05/09/2009 - 01:37 by surajdogra

Winston-Salem, N.C. -- A study of people with type 2 diabetes suggests many of them would benefit from dietary counseling, researchers in North Carolina said.

"The most important thing about controlling diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, is being able to manage energy in and energy out, and the best way to do that is through diet," said Mara Vitolins, lead author of the study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

In a study of 2,575 type 2 diabetics though out the United States, Vitolins and her team found 93 percent exceeded the recommended percentage of daily calories from fat, 85 percent exceeded the saturated fat recommendation and 92 percent consumed too much sodium.