A couple of handfuls of pistachio nuts eaten with a high-glycemic meal such as pasta can do wonders for postprandial glucose and insulin levels, especially in people with metabolic syndrome.…
Read More »ADA Warns against New Driving Restrictions for Diabetes Patients
ADA has warned against blanket driving restrictions, instead recommending individual assessment….
Read More »Scientists Discover a New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists discover that the beta-cells need heparin sulphate to survive.…
Read More »Research Finds That Patients with Diabetes Should Take More Vitamin B12 Daily
People who have type 2 diabetes and are taking metformin should take more than the recommended daily allowance of vitamin B12.…
Read More »Diabetes Reversed with Investigational Weight Loss Drug
Slightly more than a year of treatment with an investigational obesity drug that the FDA rejected for approval last year reversed type 2 diabetes in 15% of subjects.…
Read More »Testosterone Replacement Improves Male Metabolic Syndrome
Testosterone replacement to normal levels in middle-aged and elderly hypogonadal men significantly improved all components of the metabolic syndrome at 24 months.…
Read More »Glucagon-like peptide 1 increases the period of postprandial satiety and slows gastric emptying in obese men
The regulation of food intake is a complex process involving psychologic, social, and physiologic components. Physiologically, it is generally assumed that food intake is regulated by a central feeding drive that is later counterregulated by peripheral satiety signals that are activated during a meal. These satiety signals have been suggested …
Read More »Psychology in Diabetes Care, 2nd. Ed, Part 9
Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Adolescents 2.1 Introduction- Recurrent ketoacidosis Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is the single most common cause of mortality in individuals with type 1 diabetes under the age of 40.21
Read More »Diabetes Mellitus 101 for Medical Professionals, Part 1 of 9
This week we begin a new Homerun Slides series on Diabetes Mellitus 101 for Medical Professionals: An Aggressive Pathophysiologic Approach to Cardiometabolic Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes created by Dr. Stanley Schwartz…..
Read More »How Old Are You Really?
By Sheri Colberg, PhD Different tissues and organs change over time at varying rates, so enhancing their function will likely slow your rate of biological aging and, in some cases, even reverse it. Certain biomarkers of biological aging can let you know whether you’re doing better or worse than your …
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