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Highlights from Dr Fred Vagnini’s presentation at the Annual World Congress of Anti-Aging Medicine in Orlando about diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors. 40-60 million US citizens are pre-diabetic and most are likely to develop diabetes within ten years.

What do ants and rubber tree plants have to do with syrupy HFCS ads and high hopes for the future of youth media mobilization? Stay with me after the jump to find out… Last week I wrote about my teen’s incredulous response to the patronizing propaganda sugar-coating the airwaves about HFCS, high

Salt hikes blood pressure, C can lower it Research presented at an American Heart Association conference on blood pressure shows that getting too much salt can make high blood pressure difficult to treat, while getting intravenous vitamin C can help lower it.

Sugary soft drinks cut to less than a quarter Sales of calorie-filled sugary soft drinks were down to less than a quarter of all drinks sold at schools last year, and sales of bottled water went up from 22 percent of all sales in the year before last to 27.6 percent of sales last year.

USDA predicts 4 or 5 percent jump in 2009 To those who were hoping the rising food prices we saw this year would go away next year, the United States Department of Agriculture says not so fast, predicting more food price increases next year.

Watching the TechCrunch 50 conference of selected startups LIVE on my laptop as my dog swims off the dock reminds me of my dad’s theory that you can see a football game better at home than in person! For SheGeeks like me, this is comfy, democratized, internet access to a bigwig startup event of digerati sans exhaustive schmoozing, ego-dodging, and brain-groping with 1000 people in S.F.

“Mom, go to SweetSurprise.com right now!” yelled my daughter in an urgent commando bark. Before I could even protest her lousy timing, I got a “NOW! I’m not kidding! GO! GO!” she shouted at me like a drill sergeant. Sheesh. Well, when she’s right, she’s right.

Identical twins show same risk for diabetes A study looking at Swedish twins has found a genetic link between low birth weight and diabetes. Previous research has shown that people with diabetes are more likely to have had low birth weight, but the conditions of being born small do not cause diabetes.

Association called “relatively strong” People who have the most arsenic in their bloodstreams are more likely than other people to also have type 2 diabetes. Johns Hopkins University researchers said people in their study with diabetes had 26 percent higher levels of arsenic than those who didn’t

Almost all obese diabetics get heart disease Women who were both obese and had diabetes in a long-term heart study had an 80 percent chance of developing heart disease, while for men the risk was 90 percent. The study, in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that diabetes alone raised the risk of developing heart problems dramatically and that adding obesity made it much worse.