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7 hours ago
- Health
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Twice as Effective as Metformin: The Power of Lifestyle Changes for Diabetes
Twenty-one years after its launch, the U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program remains a landmark study. The latest results are in: people with prediabetes who made intensive lifestyle changes reduced their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 58 percent—nearly twice as effective as metformin, which lowered risk by 31 percent. And the benefits lasted more than two decades. Despite these impressive results, the program's emphasis on weight loss through fat and calorie restriction reflects an outdated view of metabolic health. Today, it's clear that blood sugar regulation involves far more than just cutting calories. So what other lifestyle interventions might offer even greater benefits? The Landmark Clinical Trial In the U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program
Epoch Times
10 hours ago
- Health
- Epoch Times
Popular Diabetes Drug Doubles Risk of an Age-Related Eye Condition
Millions of Americans taking popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs may face double the risk of developing a vision-threatening eye condition, according to a major new study that tracked more than one million patients for three years. The Risk in Context The While the relative risk doubled, the absolute numbers remain small: 0.2 percent of GLP-1 users developed the eye condition compared to 0.1 percent of nonusers over three years. This means roughly 1 in 1,000 additional users might develop the condition. However, with millions of people taking these medications, that could affect thousands of people.
Epoch Times
13 hours ago
- General
- Epoch Times
The Slave-Turned-Spy Who Infiltrated the Confederate White House
It's unsurprising that the details of the life of a spy and ex-slave would be hard to pin down. Its various narratives and pseudonyms shift and merge like shadows cast by a roving flashlight, so that historians today have as much difficulty tracking the elusive Mary Jane Richards as her enemies did during her lifetime. But throu gh the work of scholars like Lois Leveen and Elizabeth Varon, we can sketch a fairly accurate outline of the life of this Civil War spy. Mary Jane Richards was sometimes called Mary Elizabeth Bowser or Mary Richards Denman. Her story leads from slavery to spycraft. She gathered i ntelligence at the highest levels of the Confederacy and passing it along to the Union. A Humble Start was likely born around 1840 near Richmond, Virgini a. Her exact parentage is unknown, and Richards herself gave varying accounts of it. But we do know that from a young age, probably from birth, Richards was enslaved by John and Eliza Van Lew, wealthy natives of Richmond. A May 17, 1846 baptismal record for a 'Mary Jane' 'belonging to Mrs. Van Lew' appears at Saint John's Church in Richmond.
Epoch Times
14 hours ago
- Science
- Epoch Times
Explore the Rugged Beauty of Channel Islands National Park's Anacapa Island
By Paul Bersebach and Don Sproul The Orange County Register VENTURA, Calif.—Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the Pacific.
Epoch Times
14 hours ago
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What Does Travel Insurance Cover?
By Rachael Green From Kiplinger's Personal Finance Travel insurance is one of those things that just feels like an added expense on a vacation that you've already spent plenty of money on—especially if you aren't even sure what it covers. But it's precisely because you've already spent that money on your vacation that travel insurance is worth it.
