Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes have difficulty regulating their glucose — or blood sugar — levels, particularly after meals. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that Type 2 diabetics can eat more protein at breakfast to help reduce glucose spikes at both breakfast and lunch.
Food and drug interactions are much more common than most people realize. Many people on prescription drugs probably already know it’s a bad idea to drink alcohol, which can interfere with many medications. But foods as seemingly innocuous as sausage and cheddar cheese can cause dangerous side effects for those taking certain types of antidepressants.
Swallowing a daily dose of insulin is safe, and it may act like a vaccine to prevent type 1 diabetes, a small new study shows. If the results can be repeated in larger and longer trials, the approach may one day be used to help young children at high risk of the disease avoid getting […]
Sometimes, promising Type 1 diabetes treatments are developed from treatments for other conditions. If you have Type 1 diabetes, there’s good reason to be interested in what’s happening with the BCG vaccine, a treatment used to curb the spread of tuberculosis.
Dropping red meat, and sticking to a plant-based diet that incorporates fish may be the key to preventing colorectal (colon and rectum) cancers, according to a seven-year study published Monday. Pescetarians, as they are commonly referred, had a 43% lower chance of getting the cancer compared to people with omnivorous diets.
Modern life, with its preponderance of inadequate exposure to natural light during the day and overexposure to artificial light at night, is not conducive to the body’s natural sleep/wake cycle. It’s an emerging topic in health, one that UConn Health (University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.) cancer epidemiologist Richard Stevens has been studying for three decades.
This was the finding of a comprehensive analysis of clinical trials covering more than 95,000 patients reported in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. The study was also presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in San Diego, CA, earlier this week.
In their annual report, the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation recently highlighted their Top 6 research breakthroughs in 2014.
We recently shared news about a new MIT study that used mice models to test an injectable “smart insulin.” This insulin activates only when there are traces of excess glucose in the bloodstream, an innovation which could potentially eliminate or lower the risk of hypoglycemia.
Diabetics in the study who ate big breakfasts and small dinners had fewer episodes of high blood sugar than those who ate small breakfasts and large dinners, researchers found.
A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that increased fiber consumption provided the same results as the standard dietary recommendations provided by the American Heart Association (AHA) for treating metabolic syndrome.
People who have low levels of vitamin D are more likely to have diabetes, regardless of how much they weigh, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Around 86 million people in the US have prediabetes, putting them at higher risk of being diagnosed with diabetes in the future. But a research team led by investigators from the University of Michigan Medical School has created a “precision medicine” model that they say could aid diabetes prevention in high-risk individuals by identifying the […]
Super obese patients with diabetes may not get the same benefits from bariatric surgery as those who with BMIs less than 62, according to published research.
You can dramatically reduce your chances of having heart disease or dying from heart disease if you do six simple things. That’s what a new study in the recent edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found.
Instead of repeated blood tests and injections throughout the day to keep blood sugar in check, a single dose of smart insulin would keep circulating in the body and turn on when needed. Animal studies show the technology appears to work – at least in mice.
Intarcia Therapeutics just released the latest data from its phase 3 FREEDOM-1 trial of ITCA-650, a small implanted device to treat type 2 diabetes. The tiny device is implanted under the skin for three or six months and continuously releases exenatide (a GLP-1 agonist) through a small mini-pump.
In some young children who develop type 1 diabetes, a change in normal stomach bacteria can precede the disease by a year, a small study has found. The findings, published Feb. 5 in the journal Cell, Host & Microbe, are based on just 33 children at increased genetic risk of type 1 diabetes . And […]
The technique involves the examination of unmyelinated nerve fibers at high magnification using a laser-scanning corneal confocal microscope to image the subbasal nerve plexus of the patient’s cornea. Increased severity of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is associated with reduced corneal-nerve fiber length and corneal sensitivity.
Carbohydrates in general are the main enemy when it comes to diabetes, but a new study suggests that sugar – specifically added fructose – found in processed foods is one of the main drivers of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.