Coffee increases the risk of prediabetes in young adults with hypertension who are slow caffeine metabolisers, according to results from the HARVEST study presented at ESC Congress by Dr Lucio Mos from Italy. People who drank more than three cups of coffee per day doubled their risk of prediabetes.
Inflammation plays a major role in diabetes-associated cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is uncertainty whether diet and physical activity interventions can be successfully integrated into healthcare settings and reduce markers of inflammation and risk of CVD in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
“The message is simple: Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided,” writes the team of doctors.
According to a new study, those who regularly eat tree nuts including almonds, cashews, walnuts, pistachios and chestnuts have lower triglyceride levels (less fat in the blood), as well as lower blood glucose.
Research has indicated that eating pistachios along with a high-glycemic meal may help lower after-meal blood sugar response, particularly in people with metabolic syndrome. Now, a small new study from Penn State University suggests that these nuts may also improve heart health in people who have Type 2 by reducing the body’s cardiovascular responses to […]
f you have diabetes and you’re struggling, how do you know if you should get help? When someone asks me this, there a couple of things I encourage them to ask themselves.
For years, we have known that diets high in salt can be bad for people with high blood pressure. A study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed this fact. It monitored more than 100,000 people in 18 countries and found that people who consumed more sodium generally had significantly higher blood […]
So what is the deal with coconut oil then? Well, while it’s high in saturated fat, we know that not all saturated fats are created equal — and this is where some of the believed health benefits of coconut oil come into play.
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, which occurs in about half of all patients with type 2 diabetes, is underdiagnosed, and this is partly because physicians aren”t able to offer anything to treat the underlying cause of this condition, and the current treatments provided to these patients only treat the pain.
Interval training, also called burst training, doesn’t necessarily have to be extremely taxing in order to offer health benefits for diabetics, according to a new study.
Researchers examined the effects on blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), and blood glucose (BG) associated with the intake of caffeine in comparison to maltodextrin (CHO) during prolonged periods of low-intensity exercise in patients with type 2 diabetes.
With regular sugar taking a nutritional beating and artificial sweeteners unable to shake their sketchy made-in-the-lab connotations, it’s no wonder newcomers like stevia and agave are conquering our morning coffee (and the world of packaged foods).
Americans are accustomed to being nagged about salt. We’re told we consume too much — particularly from processed foods. And that all this salt can increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes.
Individuals who experience high levels of workplace stress are about 45 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who have less taxing jobs, according to research published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
Now, a study published in the journal Diabetologia finds that interval training may help the millions of people with Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes who are trying to control their blood sugar.
For people with type 2 diabetes, eating pistachios could help reduce the body’s stress response – which may help lower blood pressure and decrease strain on the cardiovascular system.
Vitamin D-deficient individuals are twice as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as people who have sufficient levels of the vitamin, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
For obese adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), a very low carbohydrate diet is associated with greater improvements in glycemic control and cardiovascular risk markers than an energy-matched high unrefined carbohydrate diet, according to a study published online July 28 in Diabetes Care.
Low-carbohydrate diets should be the first line of attack for treatment of type 2 diabetes, and should be used in conjunction with insulin in those with type 1 diabetes.
There are a number of other issues and terms that can confuse even the most educated shoppers. Many of them sound healthy on their own — that is, they have a health halo effect. Here are five of the buzziest, what they really mean, and what they don’t.