Educating parents on healthy infant sleep habits may help prevent obesity

Teaching parents bedtime techniques to encourage healthy sleep habits in their infants may help prevent obesity, according to researchers. Strong links exist between inadequate sleep and childhood obesity.

Originally published at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160629111002.htm

Why women can get away with a lie-in: Disrupted sleep is worse for men - and can increase the risk of diabetes

Women's bodies get better at using insulin the more sleep they have while the opposite was true for men, meaning their risk of diabetes increased the more shut-eye they had , Dutch researchers found.

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Pregnant mums at risk from diabetes even if they have only a mildly raised blood pressure because doctors assume they are fine

They have found that expectant mothers whose readings were only just above normal were up to six times more likely to develop these complications.

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Why the depressed are more likely to be hit by diabetes: Patients 60% more likely to develop the illness because of genetic link between the conditions

Experts have long known that patients with diabetes are more likely to be depressed, and vice versa, and until now they presumed it was coincidental or due to lifestyle.

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Toll of sugary 'sports' drinks on teenagers' health: Warnings sugar-packed beverages raise risk of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay

Some 68 per cent of children drink sugar-packed sports drinks that are supposedly healthy at least once a week, according to research by Cardiff University.

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'Give patients 30-minute appointments': Spending more time with a GP 'is more cost effective than many prescription drugs'

Glasgow patients living with chronic conditions like diabetes who had appointments of 30 to 45 minutes were in better health a year later than those who spent 10 minutes with their GP.

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Woman with diabetes whose family has been blighted by cancer braves a DNA test to predict her future health

Mieka Smiles, 34, from Middlesbrough, tried the 23andMe DNA test - which can be purchased from Superdrug for £125 - and claims to predict the illnesses likely to affect you in later life.

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