The Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation has started selling camel milk at its dairy milk parlour at Bikaner House in New Delhi. The new pasteurised milk packets have been priced at Rs.20 for half litre. Federation Chairman and Managing Director Madhukar Gupta said here on Monday that researchers had recently found camel milk good for the health of diabetes patients. The initial reports of the camel milk sale in Delhi were very encouraging, Mr. Gupta added.

The number of diabetic patients will increase three times by 2025, according to the Diabetes Endocrine Nutrition Management and Research Centre (DENMARC), which is a group of doctors working on the reduction of the disease for the last two decades. DENMARC director H.B Chandalia, while announcing 'Defeat Diabetes' here today, said the number of diabetic patients was on the increase due to change in lifestyle and diet in the country. DENMARC has organised a three-day event, 'Defeat Diabetes 2008', at the Nehru centre starting from May 23 to 25, which will be inaugurated by Nita Ambani.

THE scalpel may hold the future for cure of deadly diseases like diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and sleep apnea. With bariatric surgery (also known as weight loss surgery) getting recognised as a standard procedure to treat obesity, medicos are now finding the surgery, or its variations, can hold the magic key to cure metabolic disorders as well.

Of the many issues that will be discussed at the 61st World Health Assembly in Geneva this month, prevention and control of non-communicable diseases is what the food industry will be following closely. Its future, and growth plan, will depend on the outcome of the deliberations in Geneva.

Testing protocol: The screening proved that gestational diabetes manifests during all trimesters of pregnancy. The risk of nearly 83,000 individuals developing diabetes at a later date has been reduced by a simple, low cost intervention by the Tamil Nadu government. In a first-of-its-kind programme in the country, 5.2 lakh pregnant women visiting government-run prenatal clinics were screened for gestational diabetes (GDM) during 2007-08. And 7-8 per cent were found to have elevated glucose level.

The World Health Organisation has designated Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre as its Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control.

Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported on Sunday.

diabetics can now now keep the needles at bay. They have an option

London: Is frog the answer to diabetes? "Yes', if researchers are to be believed. A joint team of experts from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and United Arab Emirates University has discovered that a substance on the skin of South American "paradoxical frog' boosts the production of insulin