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    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   What causes diabetes? Now that’s a loaded question if I have ever heard one. What doesn’t cause it? That would actually be an easier question to answer.

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD    Any type of exercise training can make your insulin work better, regardless of what type of diabetes you have and whether you have to take insulin.

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   How much exercise are kids actually getting nowadays? Not nearly enough!  

Tina Burge, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate, FAMU College of Pharmacy Reviewed by Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE It’s well-known that patients with diabetes have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease when compared to patients without diabetes. Diabetes type 2 has a high prevalence in the obese (BMI ³ 25kg/m2) and overweight …

  Sheri Colberg, PhD     A lot of my clinical research of late has been on a collision course with heart rate variability, or HRV for short. In fact, it has gotten to the point that I now believe that maintaining your HRV is the key to your well-being, …

David Joffe, BSPharm, CDE, Editor-in-chief, Diabetes In Control The Endocrine Society has published a new set of recommendations on the definition of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) and screening programs for such chemicals.

  Learn how to get your patients to increase their physical activity.

David Joffe, BSPharm, CDE Tina Burge, PharmD Candidate Florida A&M University Kiet Ngo, Pharm D Candidate Mercer University Abnormalities in incretin hormones such as the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) contribute to the development of hyperglycemia. GLP-1 was discovered as a peptide encoded by the proglucagon gene and was named glucagon-like because …

Oral Disease TREATMENT Can Help Control High Glycemic Levels San Francisco, CA (June 6, 2008) – Critical links between periodontal (gum) disease and the development of type 2 diabetes, as well as the development and progression of its complications, were reported here today in the first ever symposium presented by …

Maria Emanuel Ryan, DDS, PhD; Oana Carnu, DMD; Angela Kamer, DMD, PhD The pathogenesis of periodontal disease is complex because it reflects a combination of the initiation and maintenance of the chronic inflammatory process by a diverse microbial flora and its numerous bacterial products. The subsequent host response to this infection mediates …