LEVEL Life, Boulder, Colo., welcomed National Diabetes Month (November) with a new line of indulgent snacks, including Peanut Butter Cups and Peanut Turtle Bars.

Extend Nutrition, St. Louis, says its new sugar-free and gluten-free protein bars are clinically proven to help control blood sugar for six to nine hours. Officials say new Cookies & Cream and Chocolate & Caramel bars are currently available at extendbar.com, with retail sales to begin later this year.

A new market report by Transparency Market Research (TMR), Albany, N.Y., valued the global low-calorie food market at USD $7.4 billion in 2013 and researchers expect the sector to post a CAGR of 5.9% from 2014 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of USD $10.4 billion in 2019.

Adults who eat a 125g serving of yogurt four or five times a week have a 28% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes compared with those who eat none.

Obesity is far from only an American problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly doubled between 1980-2008, with more than 50% of both men and women in the WHO European Region qualifying as overweight, as approximately 23% of women and 20% of men were obese.

Animal products such as meat, cheese and egg yolks trigger stomach acids linked to the disease.

GlucoBrands owns the Level Life Foods line, with products geared toward daily management of diabetes.

It has a sugar substitute that has zero calories and zero carbs.

Eating foods such as fruit, vegetables and olive oil while cutting down on starch and sugars can reduce the chances of type 2 diabetes by 20%.