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  • No drugs—just a vegan diet controls diabetes

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    Diabetics could control their condition just by eating a vegan diet. The plant-based diet reduces many of the typical biological markers of type 2 diabetes without the need for any drugs to control the condition, a major review has concluded.

    The diet also improves depression—the problem is three times greater among diabetics—and general wellbeing, researchers from the University of London have found. Diabetics also lose weight on the diet.

  • PCOS linked to gut problems, researchers discover

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    As with so many other problems, PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), a hormonal imbalance that can lead to infertility, diabetes and heart disease, seems to begin in the gut.

    Women suffering from the condition have less diverse gut bacteria compared to healthier women, new research has discovered.

  • Serious side effects force a third of diabetics to quit common drug

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    The side effects of the world's most commonly-prescribed diabetes drug are so severe that around a third of patients stop taking it, a new study has discovered.

    Metformin, marketed as Glucophage, is designed to treat type 2 diabetes—but it often causes a range of distressing gut problems, such as diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

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