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Being overweight and having unhealthy eating habits are two risk factors in developing Type 2 diabetes. In the 2004-05 National Health Survey, 699,600 Australians (3.5% of the population) reported having diabetes. Around 85-90% of these cases are Type 2.

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Source: Medica

New compounds that act like the red wine ingredient resveratrol may offer a new formula for type 2 diabetes drugs and other age-related diseases, researchers at US drug maker Sirtris Pharmaceuticals said.

"The excitement here is that we’re not talking about red wine anymore. We’re talking about real drugs," said David Sinclair, an associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sirtris.

"This is the first time that real drugs have been designed to go after diseases through the genes that control aging," said Sinclair, whose research appears in the journal Nature.

"One of the drawbacks of resveratrol is the doses need to be large. Now this paper says you can reduce it into a little pill taken once a day," he said in a telephone interview.

Sinclair and researchers at Sirtris have been looking for drug compounds that mimic the effects of resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that has been shown in several studies to prolong the life of mice and reduce the advance of age-related disease.

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