Diet & Nutrition

New study suggests packaged food claims like “reduced in sugar” or “no added sugar” still have sugar levels too high by World Health Organization standards.

Large cohort suggests supplement increase beneficial in women of reproductive age.

Having worked with patients, children, adolescents, and adults who have diabetes for oh so many years, I’ve learned it’s better to change what I teach than to expect my patients to change their entire lifestyle. One of the toughest things for patients to do is to change the way they eat, especially if deep rooted in their ethnic background. One example is asking patients who are from the Middle East or those who are brought up on rice and beans to avoid or cut back on rice.

In Part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Osama Hamdy talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about his type 1- and type 2-specific recommendations when fasting for Ramadan.

Recent meta-analysis conducted to address ideal amount of dietary carbohydrates in the management of T2DM.

In Part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Osama Hamdy talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about ways to work within cultural traditions to improve nutrition and eating habits thus affecting diabetes management.

Meal sequencing may decrease glucose levels and insulin utilization.

By Featured Writer Sheri R. Colberg, PhD. As a clinical exercise researcher, I frequently have found it difficult to study exercise effects in people with health complications, even though this is critical information to know in order to make appropriate exercise guidelines. Try convincing your university Institutional Research Board, or IRB, that it is advisable to exercise people with eye issues like unstable proliferative retinopathy to find out if breath-holding, jumping, jarring, or head-down activities cause them to experience retinal hemorrhages. Understandably, that is not going to happen, nor should it.

The pendulum has swung from too much fat to too many carbs.

Artificial sweeteners may offer short-term weight loss, but at what cost?