Agavins: A Potential Alternative to Artificial Sweeteners
Agavins are non-digestible natural sugars which may have future applications in diabetes and weight loss by increasing the GLP-1 hormone
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DiabetesInControl – Is Moderate Wine Consumption in Type 2 Beneficial?
In prior studies, moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to healthier cardiovascular outcomes. When it comes to moderate alcohol consumption and diabetes the potential health benefits, if any, are not as clear.
Upwave – How To Prevent Sugar Cravings
There’s always an excuse for a sugar binge. A holiday, a birthday or even a breakup seems like the perfect time to break out the sweet stuff. But you don’t have to be a slave to sugar! Learn how to avoid it and how to quell your sugar cravings for good.
MNT – Better sleep ‘could be prescribed to treat metabolic disorders’
A new study, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, suggests that both the prevention and treatment of these disorders may benefit from addressing poor sleep.
CNN – Study: Stress may reduce fertility
“The women who had the highest levels of this salivary stress biomarker had a 29% decreased probability of pregnancy over time, and that actually translated into a more than two-fold risk of infertility for them by the end of the study,” said lead author Courtney Lynch.
5 Ways Diabetes Wreaks Havoc On Your Entire Life
You only have to walk in the shoes of a person with type 1 or type 2 diabetes for about 35 minutes (or the time it takes to eat an apple) to realize that this disease is about so much more than just diet and exercise. In fact, diabetes can affect every aspect of your […]
CNN – 6 Fitness Myths
Are you killing it in the gym but not seeing results? Chances are, you’ve fallen victim to bad advice. That’s easy to do these days, notes Jessica Matthews, spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise (ACE): “We have greater access to information, but it isn’t always accurate.”
Ask D’Mine: A Cup of Joe with Insulin, and Standards for Pumps?
This week, Wil tackles “The Great Diabetes Coffee Debate” and also chimes in on the issue of how insulin pump calculations can be confusing to users.
HuffPost – 6 Spring Superfoods We’re Excited To Enjoy
We asked some of our favorite nutrition experts to share with us which piece of spring produce (it’s SO hard to pick just one!) they’re most excited to dig their teeth into. Check out their responses — as well as their favorite ways to prepare their picks — below.
DiabetesHealth – Another Blow to the “Saturated Fat Is Bad” School of Thought
Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and reported on by The New York Times, says that sugary foods and excess carbohydrates, not saturated fat, are the main culprits in the build-up of artery-clogging particles.
Trying To Cut Back On Salt? Focus On Spices During Cooking
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University found that sodium intake decreased more when people were taught how to use spices and herbs in their cooking, choose low-sodium foods at restaurants and monitor their diet, than when people were left to go it alone.
Diabetes Self-Management – Five Environmental Causes of Diabetes
This information is updated from the book Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis, published in 2007. Since then, things have changed, mostly for the worse. Hopefully, knowing how the environment makes people sick will help you protect yourself against it.
Forbes – New Sweetener From The Tequila Plant May Aid Diabetes, Weight Loss
Could a new sugar substitute actually lower blood sugar and help you lose weight? That’s the tantalizing – but distant – promise of new research presented at the American Chemical Society (ACS) this week.
NYT – Study Questions Fat and Heart Disease Link
Many of us have long been told that saturated fat, the type found in meat, butter and cheese, causes heart disease. But a large and exhaustive new analysis by a team of international scientists found no evidence that eating saturated fat increased heart attacks and other cardiac events.
Diabetes Self-Management – Unconventional Ways to Lose Weight…Maybe
Most of us know that there’s no “magic pill” for weight loss, but there are methods, pills, and other approaches that are constantly touted as the answer to weight woes. Let’s take a look at a few.
Ask D’Mine: Revisiting Drinking & Diabetes
Honestly, how to handle Drinking With Diabetes is a topic we should all be familiar with; please enjoy this “re-run” of some great universal advice on the topic.
DiabetesHealth – Marijuana May Help Blood Sugar Control, Study Says
Marijuana actually appears to have metabolic benefits. A study published last summer in The American Journal of Medicine looked at more than 4,500 adults, of whom 579 were using marijuana at the time. That subgroup had notably better fasting blood glucose levels, insulin resistance, and waist circumference.
Huffpost – 11 Sleep Mistakes That You Are Probably Making
Want to reap more and better sleep — and ward off stroke, obesity, diabetes, memory loss, cancer and early death in the process? Here’s what not to do.
Huffpost – The 11 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight
Think you’re a master dieter? These common weight-loss mistakes can ruin even the most disciplined action plan (and you might not even be aware you’re making them). If you’re eating healthy and working out and wondering why you’re still not at your goal weight, these common diet destroyers could be to blame.
Diabetes.org – Vegetarian Meal Plans and Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) newest nutrition recommendations, there is no one diet or eating pattern that is best for everyone with diabetes. Research has found that all of these have the potential to work when managing diabetes.