Now a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) further underscores the association, finding that too much or too little sleep is linked to a variety of chronic health conditions.
In the same way that we can develop hypoglycemic awareness over years of having hypos, do our bodies take longer to recover from lows after years of living with diabetes?
At some point, we’ve all awoken from some kind of binge, perhaps surrounded by beer bottles, candy wrappers or shopping bags, and asked ourselves: What the hell happened? How can rational, functioning adults totally lose control of their impulses?
Diabetes experts recommend eating fish for cardiovascular health, but if your only experience with fish so far has been fish sticks or fried fish, you might be wondering how and why to include fish in your strategy for eating well with diabetes.
Healthy adults do not need to take vitamin D supplements, suggests a study in The Lancet which found they had no beneficial effect on bone density, a sign of osteoporosis.
The Diabetes DTOUR Diet is based on new research that found that certain nutrients in foods are powerful at balancing blood sugar and encouraging weight loss. These four supernutrients—the Fat-Fighting 4—together help you take control. See them now!
Some people say they can’t lose weight, but almost anyone can lose. The problem is keeping the weight off. Very few people (5% in studies) maintain weight loss over the long term. Why do our bodies regain weight, and what can we learn from that?
We’ve all witnessed the latest trend in nutrition – the various versions of a “free from” diet. That is, Americans are increasingly defining our diets based on what we exclude. Here are a few examples of dietary patterns that look healthy on paper but result in poor health outcomes in practice.
The American Diabetes Association recommends all people living with diabetes make nutrition therapy a part of their diabetes treatment plan, but emphasizes that there is no single eating pattern that is best for everyone, according to a position statement being published online Oct. 9 in Diabetes Care
Rabinovitz et al evaluated the effect of breakfast size on diabetic control. The study included overweight and obese patients, non-insulin dependent adults with type 2 diabetes. Patients were randomized to receive either a large breakfast consisting of a higher percentage of protein and fat or a smaller breakfast.
The weather is getting cooler, but your produce choices are heating up. These amazing superfoods, picked by our friends at Health.com, are either hitting their peak in the garden or can easily be found in your local farmers market or grocery store. They’re the perfect excuse to get cooking on cool nights!
In the study, which involved 56 diabetes patients with gastroparesis, the subjects who were put on a small particle diet (smaller than 2 mm in diameter) experienced significantly less severe gastrointestinal symptoms than those who ate a conventional diabetes diet, which tends to focus on large particle foods.
Forget the pills — there’s new evidence that exercise may be as effective as medications in treating heart disease and diabetes.
Eating breakfast can have a positive effect on a person’s BMI, fasting glucose levels, and postprandial insulin sensitivity. In a study led by Rabinovitz et al, the effect of breakfast size and content on patients with type 2 diabetes was analyzed.
If longevity is a lofty priority for you, you’ve probably read about “Blue Zones,” the five locations on the planet with the highest percentages of centenarians — aka people living to 100 and beyond. There is now a considerable amount of research on these “superhumans”.
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links too little sleep (six hours or less) and too much sleep (10 or more hours) with chronic diseases—including coronary heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and obesity—in adults age 45 and older.
Researchers are finding evidence that periodic fasting is beneficial. A technique known as intermittent fasting that has become a craze in the U.K. thanks to a couple of new books there “The FastDiet” and “The 2-Day Diet”.
Eating low-carb meals helps moderate blood sugars, and it’s also a smart strategy for cutting calories if you’re looking to lose a few pounds
As the saying goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), this may indeed be the case — at least as far as people with Type 2 diabetes are concerned.
While it may be the last thing you want to guzzle down with meals, vinegar can help diabetics gain better control over blood sugar levels, reports a new study in the Journal of Functional Foods.