Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as sugar diabetes, is a metabolic disorder associated with an intolerance to or deficiency of insulin. This leads to a disturbance in regulating blood glucose levels. The incidence of diabetes mellitus is growing globally and large associated with high carbohydrate and fat diet and sedentary lifestyle. The prevalence in certain communities is also associated with genetic factors but obesity is by far the most important risk factor. Over time, diabetes mellitus damages almost every other organs with greater prominence on the eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and nerves.

The few minute of intense exercise in a week are more potent than the half-hour of routine exercise in reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study indicated.

“You can easily get health benefits of 7 to 8 minute vigorous exercise in a week if you don’t find the time to perform regular exertion. However, it is against the established perspective of the physical exertion.” Dr. James A. Timmons said.

Researchers find out those inactive young men who do only 15 min intense exercise in two weeks, develop the ability to metabolize blood glucose more efficiently. Conventional aerobic exercises may also increase insulin sensitivity in the body. The heavy exercise did the same but also directly causes reduction in the men’s bloog sugar level, this is the edge of the heavy physical work out.

A British study says that eating fish twice a week may prove helpful to cut the risk of kidney disease in diabetics.

In this study more than 22,000 adults (including 517 diabetics) were included and fish consumption of the participants was determined by using dietary and lifestyle questionnaires. The researchers found that those diabetics who took less than one serving of fish per week were 18 percent more likely to have protein in their urine than the people who took at least two serving of fish per week.

Study co-author Dr. Amanda Adler pointed out that: “One of the earliest signs of kidney disease is to have protein in the urine.”

The study has been published in the November issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

An extraordinary attempt has been stressed upon to investigate an association between the ‘Environmental Pollution (EP) ‘and ‘Type-2 Diabetes’. Scientists from the “Cambridge University” are making serious attempts shed more light on the least unexplored relationship between the two of them.

Writing in a research article in the most recent edition of the journal “Lancet”, Drs. Oliver Jones and Julian Griffin highlighted the need to research the possible link between the ‘Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), a group which includes many pesticides, and insulin resistance. A most probable relationship between the two could possibly lead to adult onset diabetes.

The researchers made special mentioning of their peer based reviewed research and  on the basis of the results obtained they demonstrated that there exists a very linear bond type relationship between the levels of POPs in blood, particularly the ‘organo-chlorine compounds’, and the risk of ‘Type-2 Diabetes’.