Meg Farris / Medical Reporter NEW ORLEANS -- Is it hard for you to lose weight or control your diabetes? Well, it may be a result of what happened before you were born. Last month, baby JaMichael came in to the world as the largest baby born in Texas. He was 16 pounds, one ounce and 24 inches long. Now the latest science shows that a mother's lifestyle before and during pregnancy, may not only ...
"If your mom was obese while she was pregnant with you, you're marked," said Philip Wood, professor at Sanford Burnham Research Institute. You will have an uphill battle fighting off excess weight and its ill effects.
What if Type 2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it weren't an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better "managed" by our health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care?
Cracking the human genome is already old news for those riding the next wave of genetic research. The rising field of epigenetics is revealing how diet, behavior and the environment are reprogramming the genes we're dealt at conception.
When Memphis resident Theresa Okwumabua was first diagnosed with diabetes a year and a half ago, she tried to ignore it.
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