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Low-Fat Diet: Why Fat-Free Isn't Trouble-Free

If your goal is to keep cholesterol levels down or lose weight, 'fat-free' isn't a magic bullet.

Happy Weight Vs. Healthy Weight

That’s when a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that people who were up to 30 pounds overweight were less likely to...

Understanding Diabetes -- Diagnosis and Treatment

Your doctor may suspect you have diabetes if you have some risk factors for diabetes, or if you have high levels of blood sugar in your urine. If y...

How to Use The Glycemic Index

You can also find glycemic index lists for common foods on the Internet. Foods that are close to how they're found in nature tend to have a lower g...

Diabetes Basics

People with diabetes either don't make insulin or their body's cells are resistant to insulin, leading to high levels of sugar circulating in the b...

Men and Type 2 Diabetes

The big proof of that came in a study of 3,234 people who were overweight and had higher blood glucose levels, putting them in the crosshairs of di...

Diabetes Care Team

Because your primary care doctor is your main source of care, they will most likely head up your diabetes care team. An endocrinologist is a doctor...

Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a complex mix of physical, emotional, and behavioral changes that happen in some women after giving birth. About 1 o...

Depression Medicines

Someone may have a serious medical problem, such as heart disease or liver or kidney disease, that could make some antidepressants unsafe. Working ...

Interpersonal Therapy for Depression

Instead the therapist works collaboratively with the patient, either individually or in a group, to identify and then address one or two significan...

Types of Depression

It's normal to feel down once in a while, but if you're sad most of the time and it affects your daily life, you may have clinical depression. You'...

Depression Diagnosis

To effectively diagnose and treat depression, the doctor must hear about specific symptoms of depression. Observable or behavioral symptoms of clin...