Several demographic, clinical, and potentially modifiable system-level factors were associated with adherence to antidiabetic medications….
Read More »Calorie Counter Device from General Electric
Americans spend over $60 billion a year on diet and weight loss products but the weight often comes right back. That may be because it’s such a hassle to count calories. Now General Electric scientist Matt Webster has developed a calorie counter device which uses microwaves and scales to …
Read More »New Insulin Formulations – Umpierrez, Part 3
This week’s Homerun Slides finishes up with a conversation on the newer formulations of long acting insulin and how they compare to insulin glargine U100…. To download the complete set in PowerPoint (.ppt) format just use this link: New Insulin Formulations – Umpierrez, Part 3 Other Homerun Slides sets in this …
Read More »Practical Diabetes Care, 3rd Ed., Excerpt #7: Type 2 Diabetes: General Introduction Part 2 of 2
David Levy, MD, FRCP General Recommendations on Macronutrients Carbohydrate Recommended daily allowance is about 130 g. Low glycemic index foods (e.g. barley, oats, beans, lentils, rye bread) can reduce HbA1c by about 0.4% (4 mmol/mol) compared with high glycemic index foods. More importantly, high whole-grain, cereal fiber, bran and germ intake …
Read More »Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD: Building Physical Activity Back into Our Daily Lives
Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk talks about the urgent need to build physical activity back into our lives. He comments that, “The reality is that we have engineered physical activity out of our lives,” but emphasizes that he’s not advociating that we need to go to the gym every day, just …
Read More »Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD: Is There a Maximum Amount of Time that People Should Sit Each Day?
Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk talks about how, although we have a lot of research data on healthy behavior, most of the information we have on sedentary behavior is only 8-10 years old, so it is hard to recommend a specific target for reducing sitting. New data is rapidly being gathered, …
Read More »Breakfast Habits Affect Overweight Teen Girls Metabolic Responses to Protein-Packed Morning Meals
Routine breakfast skippers should gradually increase protein intake in the morning to improve glucose control…
Read More »Abdominal Obesity Can Be Treated with Exercise
For patients who are obese and sedentary, any exercise can help trim abdominal fat, but it may take a bit more effort to get other health benefits… Robert Ross, PhD, an exercise physiologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and colleagues recruited 300 people in their 40s and 50s who …
Read More »GLP-1 Not As Effective after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Researchers compared glucose and hormonal responses to a liquid meal test in 20 obese participants with T2 who underwent RYGB or nonsurgical intensive lifestyle modification… Rapid glycemic improvements following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are frequently attributed to the enhanced GLP-1 response, but causality remains unclear. To determine the role of …
Read More »Will Congress Pass Improved Diabetes Care?
AACE leads charge for legislative changes focused on treating diabetes, prediabetes and associated illnesses… An estimated 29.1 million Americans (almost 10% of the total population) have diabetes, another 86 million citizens aged 20 or older suffer from prediabetes, and spending on diagnosed diabetes has increased 41% over five years. Further, …
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