Researchers at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. seem to have found a genetic link between type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, suggesting that the two diseases may be triggered by similar environmental factors.

Researchers had previously seen genetic links between type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, which, together, affect about 1 percent of the population, Todd said.

But the new research shows there is “considerable overlap, and much more than we anticipated” he said. “Almost every celiac disease susceptibility gene had an effect in type 1 diabetes.”

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In another breakthrough, Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found a vaccine that reversed Type-1 Diabetes in Mice. Though, it doesn’t imply that it will work on Human, this certainly is a very optimistic development. Clinical Trials on Humans will begin soon says the report.

An experimental vaccine has prevented and reversed type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh reported Wednesday.

The vaccine has not been tested in humans, but researchers hope to begin clinical trials late next year. [source]

Wait! I am referring to good Fat. Not the fat that you have around your belly and hips for the past 1 years. You have seen those healthy person, who don’t look thin nor never muscular but thickset? Guys you must have seen in some Boxing matches, those with what we call hard fat. And those voluptuous women, with fat at just the right places, but a flat tummy. Those kind of fat, lets call it good fat, or subcutaneous fat may actually be good for glucose metabolism says a report by Harvard Researchers.

Harvard researchers say that a little extra fat around the body in locations other than the abdomen area may reduce the insulin resistance and improve insulin sensitivity. This was an unexpected finding because belly-fat has long been associated with an increased risk for type-2 diabetes.

Not all fat is the same, according to Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, Head of the Joslin Research Section on Obesity and Hormone Action and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “This points to a new opportunity to find substances made by subcutaneous fat that may actually be good for glucose metabolism,’’ Kahn said.

These doesn’t mean you stop your exercises. The report still says that belly fat is bad for you, and in fact belly fats have been known to be associated with diabetes. This just means that you should eat right and burn away those abdominal fat, and let the good fat at your arms and shoulder remain. And harden them with yoga and some weight training.