Maternal high-fat diets may predispose primate offspring to obesity and diabetes.

When researchers fed a high-fat diet to pregnant primates they found that 100% of the unborn experienced more oxadative stress to the liver and developed fatty livers. This held true whether the mother was lean or obese. It would appear that the developing fetus is highly sensitive to excess maternal dietary fat.

PositiveTip: Consuming a diet low in fat and high plant-based foods increases nutrient density and helps support good fetal nutrition.

Exercise and vegetarian diet prove to reduce abdominal fat.

A 24-week trial showed that exercising and eating a calorie-restricted vegetarian diet decreases abdominal fat, plasma leptin and oxidative stress markers while improving insulin sensitivity and reducing insulin resistance, compared to a conventional diabetic diet. Weight loss produces better insulin and leptin function. Since both leptin and insulin help to control food intake, weight loss brings better physiological control of weight and appetite.

Supplementation with Vitamin C and E may lower your resistance to diabetes and make you age faster.

You know exercise promotes longevity and helps control type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance? Did you think exercise and the use of antioxidants might be even better? Time to think again! A brand new study suggests otherwise.

An international team of researchers have discovered in a randomized trial, average insulin sensitivity was higher in those who were not taking any antioxidant supplements (1000-mg vitamin C and 400-IU vitamin E). Exercise raises reactive oxygen species (ROS), but also activates natural antioxidant systems. In the groups taking the antioxidant supplements the natural systems were blunted.