diabetes

Vitamin D Delays Progression of Diabetes

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Guest article by John Cannell, MD, president of the Vitamin D Council Diabetes mellitus type 2, or adult-onset diabetes, is epidemic, according to the CDC. It is a disease of high blood sugar with insulin resistance or insulin deficiency. Insulin resistance is what it sounds like. The cells are resistant to the action of insulin, [...]

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The Single Most Cost-Effective Medical Intervention!

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More than half of global mortality rates can be accounted for by six diseases: Cardiovascular disease cancer respiratory infections respiratory diseases tuberculosis diabetes What do all six have in common? They are all vitamin-D sensitive. And it’s not just those six diseases… Alzheimer’s meningitis Parkinson’s maternal sepsis pre-eclampsia MS deaths from falls …account for an [...]

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Are There Any Fattening Vegetables?

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Are some veggies more fattening than others? It’s not an unreasonable question. As you know, we’re experiencing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in most of the Western world. (Actually, it’s not just the western world- India and China now lead the US in the number of diabetics, but even adjusted for population the percent [...]

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Toxins Made From Sugar Linked to Aging and Diabetes

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Toxins Made From Sugar by Craig Weatherby (The following is a guest article from health reporter Craig Weatherby, who writes the Vital Choice newsletter. Vital Choice is our favorite source for the highest quality wild salmon in the world. Check them out here.) Cooking foods that contain sugars and protein at high temperatures results in [...]

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Low Levels of Vitamin D Linked with Diabetes

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A new Australian study links low levels of vitamin D with a higher risk of diabetes. This study comes on the heels of a finding presented at the American Diabetes Association 2011 Scientific Sessions that showed that examined data from the Diabetes Prevention Program which showed that participants in the upper third of vitamin-D levels [...]

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High Blood Sugar and Memory Loss

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High blood sugar puts you at risk for memory loss and cognitive problems, according to a new study out of Japan. In this study, 1017 people in Japan, all under the age of 60, were given an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). In a glucose tolerance test, the person is given a fixed amount of [...]

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The Shocking Link: Arthritis and Type 2 Diabetes

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The following is one of the most important articles I’ve come across in a long time. It’s authored by the legendary physician Jonathan Wright, MD and is reprinted here in its entirety. The Shocking Link Between Osteoarthritis and Type 2 Diabetes by Jonathan Wright, MD Do you have osteoarthritis? If you do, your chances of [...]

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Muscle Building Cuts Diabetes

Video Summary: Diabetes is a condition where your muscle cells no longer respond to insulin so your body shoves sugar from the blood into your fat cells instead. Exercise increases your muscle cell’s demand for energy so they start paying more attention to insulin. A recent study shows that for every 10% increase in muscle [...]

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Flaxseed Oil Associated with Decreased Risk of Type II Diabetes

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Alpha-linolenic acid—the plant based omega-3 found in flaxseed—has been shown to be associated with a decreased risk of diabetes. Any reader of this newsletter knows by now of the myriad health benefits associated with greater omega-3 consumption. But there have been relatively few studies comparing the effects of marine-based omega-3’s to plant based omega-3’s. The [...]

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Book Review: “Sugar Nation”

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As you know, I don’t often do book reviews, but once in a while a book comes along that is so important that I just have to tell you about it. Gary Taube’s brilliant, Why We Get Fat was one such book. The one I’m about to discuss- Sugar Nation—is another. There have been a [...]

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Vitamin D and Diabetes: Is There a Link?

The Link Between Vitamin D and Diabetes

San Diego, CA – Higher levels of vitamin D in the blood appear to be associated with a reduced risk of incident diabetes among people with high risk for the disease, according to a new report. Dr Anastassios G Pittas (Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA), and colleagues presented the findings here at the [...]

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Green Tea Supplements, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity

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Researchers from Oklahoma State University sought to shed light on the relationship between green tea supplementation and various risk factors for obese subjects. And what they found was interesting indeed. In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, the researchers randomly assigned 35 subjects with obesity and metabolic syndrome to [...]

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