Diet & Nutrition

Since I am a diabetes educator who also specializes in obesity medicine, I see a lot of different responses to travel. For all, I see both weight loss and weight gain after travel. The interesting thing is for people with obesity, I see both. What I also find interesting is a lot of my patients who go to Europe tell me they eat pasta, more bread and other carbs, but when they lose weight, glucose levels improve. Why? Usually because they also tell me they are more active.

Secondary analysis evaluates effect of Women’s Health Initiative dietary intervention.

Use of high temperature, open flame for cooking both red meat and chicken associated with increased risk.

An attempt to improve diet quality in youth with type 1 yields less than promising results.

Low Fat-Vegetarian-Vegan diet shown to improve glucose control, slow diabetes progression.

Researchers use data from large ongoing cohort study to look for connection. In a recent study, researchers concluded that sugar and artificially sweetened beverage intake have been linked to cardiometabolic risk factors, which increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease and dementia. The study examined whether sugar or artificially sweetened beverage …

Study reports Vitamin D supplementation may improve HbA1c and lower cholesterol.

Study finds linoleic acid has long-term benefits in diabetes prevention, arachidonic acid not harmful.

So many of my patients who have insulin resistance, type 1 or type 2 diabetes with hyperglycemia and/or obesity have vitamin D or vitamin B12 deficiency. Often they have never had their levels checked or, if they have, were diagnosed with either or both vitamin D deficiency and vitamin B12 deficiency and do not take their prescribed vitamins. Why?

Diet may play a major role in magnesium and its association to type 2 diabetes.