Archive for 'Diabetes'
“Finish those vegetables before you have your dessert!”: The Importance of Broccoli Concerning Diabetes
Paul Thornalley, professor at the University of Warwick and several of his colleagues were determined to find a way to mend the damage done to heart blood vessels in diabetes cases. These defective blood vessels are swarming with three times the normal amount of oxidative molecules called Reactive Oxygen Species, which makes the risk of [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Broccoli, Diabetes, Heart Disease.
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Sugary Drinks Increase Diabetes Risk in African-American Women
Over recent years society has been witness to an alarming change in Type 2 diabetes. Despite previously being seen primarily in those over the age of forty, increasing numbers of adolescents and children are also being diagnosed with the disease. Furthermore, it has become much more frequent, particularly in female African-Americans, who are twice as [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2008 under Diabetes, Weight Gain.
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Diabetes Diagnoses Latest Rising Trend
CDC: Eight Percent of U.S. Diabetic Have you noticed how everything seems to be “on the rise”? The cost of food is on the rise, the cost of oil is on the rise, tuition, housing, cost of living…The only thing that seems to be on the decline is the dollar. This rising trend has gotten [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Diabetes.
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Bad News for Diabetes Sufferers
Another Reason to Reduce Caffeine Intake  Diabetes has been in the news a lot lately and even with diabetes, the bad news seems to come in threes. After the Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in dramatic fashion in game 5 of the NBA Finals, Ray Allen, Boston’s surefire shooting guard, quickly left the Staples [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Diabetes.
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Cocoa: The New Mainstream Medicine?
New research has just been released stating that cocoa may very soon be released as a new form of treatment for diabetics suffering from cardiovascular disease. The research study included diabetic patients who drank a highly concentrated form of cocoa every day for one month. The results could not be argued. The patient’s blood vessel [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Diabetes, Dieting.
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Dangers of Diabetes Drugs
Thousands of people suffering from diabetes use the drug Regranex gel to help prevent and treat serious leg and foot ulcers related to their severe case of diabetes. The FDA has recently released a warning on Regranex gel in regards to recent studies which have found a 5-fold higher risk of dying of cancer in [...]
Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Cancer, Diabetes.
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Vitamin D: The Versatile Vitamin
You may already know that Vitamin D can help prevent the onset of osteoporosis and fractures but for many people this is the extent of what they know about this vitamin. More and more studies are beginning to uncover a number of new benefits related to Vitamin D such as its ability to prevent cancers, [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Vitamin D.
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Study: Fast Food Eating Lifestyle Leads to Liver Damage
Fast Food: Bad For the Liver, Too    We all know that fast food is bad for our body. When eaten in excess, fast foods weigh down our bodies, clog our arteries, spike our blood pressures and increase our chances of getting diseases like Type II diabetes. Yet despite these troublesome truths, fast food joints remain [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Diabetes, Fast Food, Liver Damage.
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High Fructose Equals No Glucose? Study Says High Fructose Corn Syrup Can Lead to Diabetes
Correlation does not imply causation. Political scientists are familiar with this term. If you’re unfamiliar with it, perhaps an example will illustrate its meaning. Studies suggest that incidents of crime increase significantly in the summer time. Something else that increases in the summer time—other than the mercury level—are sales of ice cream. Based on this, [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Diabetes, high-fructose corn syrup.
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Sleeping Habits Linked to Diabetes Risk, According to Study
According to a study published in Diabetes Care, getting 5 hours or less of sleep or nine hours or more each night may increase risk of developing diabetes. The study included more than 70,000 diabetes-free women that were followed for a 10-year period. The study concluded that diabetes symptoms were 34 percent more likely to [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2007 under Diabetes.
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