Some diabetes risk factors are fixed the day you're born. Others move with every meal, every night's sleep, and every waistline change. Here's how much each one actually matters, in numbers.
The relationship between BMI and diabetes risk isn't linear — it's closer to exponential, and it doesn't affect men and women equally. Here's what the research shows, and how the major weight-management approaches compare.
Prediabetes doesn't appear overnight — it's the visible part of a process that can start over a decade before diagnosis. Here's how the numbers are defined, and what's actually happening in the body during that long lead-up.
From a compound with the same chemical structure as a statin drug to a kitchen staple studied in dozens of trials, several natural substances turn up repeatedly in cholesterol and blood sugar research. Here's an overview of what's actually been studied.
Probiotics are best known for digestion, but a separate line of research has looked at them in relation to body weight, cholesterol and blood sugar control. Here's an overview of what that research actually covers.
Coffee shows up twice in diabetes research — once as a habit linked to lower risk of developing the condition, and again as a factor tied to slower kidney decline in people who already have it. Here's the actual data behind both findings.