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More than 5 million Americans Have Diabetes—and Don’t Know It
Whether you are newly diagnosed, are concerned about your risk, or have had diabetes for years, this free guide can help you better understand how to control diabetes. And control is the key to avoiding painful long-term complications.
New Treatment for Diabetes - A Compound Found in Bitter Melon
Bitter Melon Yields Miracle for diabetes
A joint research effort between the Chinese government and an Australian research institute found that Better Melon (sometimes known as “bitter gourd” or 苦瓜 in Chinese ) extracts could reduce blood sugar levels in both humans and animals - so important in the control of diabetes. Scientists have isolated four compounds in bitter melon that gives the vegetable the ability to be used as a diabetes treatment in traditional Chinese medicine. By isolating the compounds believed to be therapeutic, researchers hope to investigate how they work together in our cells.
Its a known fact that bitter melon is often used to relieve fatigue and quench thirst and these properties has prompted many medications used by Chinese medicines. However, little is known that the vegetable beneficial effects specially to diabetes.
No matter what, these are good news for all suffering from diabetes and considering bitter melon an easily accessible fruit .. I urge all who has diabetes to give it a try and reduce your blood sugar now. Keep me posted if you need fresh ideas on how to prepare a delicious meal using Bitter Melon .. message me for receipe , Free !!!
Are You At Risk of Diabetes ? — Look at your Waist size NOW !
Your waist size is a good indicator of your risk of insulin resistance, which is an early stage in the development of diabetes and heart disease.
Already recognised as a sign of potential cardiovascular disease , Swedish scientists say Waist circumference can be used to gauge sensitivity to insulin too.
“A waist circumference of less than 100 cm excludes individuals of both sexes from being at risk of being insulin resistant,” Hans Wahrenberg, of the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, said in a study reported by the British Medical Journal.
People who suffer from insulin resistance do not use insulin properly.
They may have levels of blood sugars higher than normal but not yet in the range indicating pre-diabetes, which raises the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
Sufferers of Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, do not make enough or do not properly use insulin.
Excess weight is a leading and avoidable risk factor for the illness.
The Swedish researchers studied 2,746 men and women aged 18 to 72 who had waists ranging from 65 to 150 centimetres.
They measured their height, weight, waist and hip sizes and took a blood sample to test insulin sensitivity.
They found that waist size was a strong predictor of insulin resistance.
“Waist circumference is a simple tool to exclude insulin resistance and to identify those at greatest risk,” Mr Wahrenberg said.
- Reuters
Diabetes and Quality of Sleep : Poor Sleep Quality Raises Risk Of Diabetes !
Are you suffering from diabetes ? even if you are not, ask yourself just one question : Do you have problem sleeping well at night most of the time ? If your answer is yes, then, you need to read this article carefully and seriously ==>This is because studies have shown that just 3 nights of bad sleep is enough to wack havoc in your body by reducing your body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, raising the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by a few bars.
According to researchers at the University of Chicago medical school, There are more than 18 million Americans suffering from diabetes and the most common form is type 2 — in which the body either becomes resistant to insulin or does not produce enough insulin to process sugar in their bloodstream.
Having bad sleep quality for three nights in a row greatly lower this glucose tolerance of young or even healthy adults as much as if they had gained eight to 13 kilos (20 to 30 pounds) !!!
While it is possible that the body’s ability to regulate glucose counter chronic sleep deprivation, it is likely that poor sleeping patterns in the elderly as well as the obese play a major role in the development of diabetes.
In the study, nine lean, fit and healthy participants between the age of 20 to 31 spent a total of five nights in the laboratory so that their sleep patterns could be monitored.
Whenever the volunteers went into slow-wave sleep, the researchers will start to make some noises to disrupt their sleep but not to fully awaken them.
The sounds produced will reduce deep sleep by about 90% by shifting them out of the onset of deep sleep back into a lighter sleep.
In this way, the typical sleeping patterns of those over the age of 60 were mimicked because people in this age group tends to get only about 20 minutes of deep sleep a night in contrast to about 80 to 100 minutes for most young adults.
After just three days, the ability of the volunteers to regulate blood sugar was reduced by 25% which is an indication that they needed more insulin to dispose the same amount of glucose in their bodies.
Earlier studies have indicated that lack of sleep can reduce the ability to regulate sugar, and this report adds evidence that poor sleep quality is indeed a diabetes risk.
This report is a warning to anyone (not only for diabetes sufferers) not to take their sleep lightly and if you are constantly having bad sleep or feeling tired when you wake up in the morning consistently, do make an effort to understand the root cause and to improve your sleep either by yourself or through the help of a doctor or specialist. Once you have diabetes, you will not be able to “shake it off” easily so prevention is the key to a diabetic free life-style.
Diabetes affects more than 18,000,000 people and there are another 15,000,000 not yet diagnosed, just in the United States alone!
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Lower blood pressure good for diabetics
- Study shows hypertension drug reduces heart attacks, kidney problems for diabetic patients.
THE results of a large international study released recently (3 September 2007) may herald a sea of change in how diabetic patients are treated.
The extensive study, which followed more than 11,000 patients in 20 countries for four years, showed strong evidence that diabetic patients - no matter whether they had hypertension or not - should be given medication to lower their blood pressure below normal levels.
With lower than normal blood pressure, the diabetics had significantly less risk of death, heart attacks and kidney problems.
Released to an international audience of 25,000 doctors and specialists at the European Society of Cardiologists Congress in Vienna, the study was hailed by many attendees.
The study was also released online yesterday by prestigious medical journal. The Lancet.
By 2025, an estimated 380 million people will be living with diabetes worldwide. Heart disease kills two out of three people with diabetes, who are at increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and related conditions such as degenerative eye disease and kidney problems.
In the study, half the subjects were given a combination therapy to lower blood pressure. This was on top of their current medication to control their blood sugar, their cholesterol levels and also hypertension. The rest were given a placebo on top of their current medication.
Not only did their blood pressures come down, the treated group had their risk of death cut by 14 percent.
The risks of heart attacks were also cut by 14 percent, plus there was a 21 per cent less chance ot suffering kidney problems.
One of the two principal investigators of the study, Dr John Chalmers, senior director at The George Institute for International Health in Australia, said that he would give the combination pill to all diabetic patients, regardless of their current blood pressure level, as it was very safe.
He said:” If the benefits seen in this study were applied to just half the population with diabetes worldwide, more than a million deaths would be avoided over five years.”
His co-investigator, Dr Stephen MacMahon, principal director of The George Institute, said: “The benefit is there, with or without hypertension, and in the presence or absence of treatment with other drugs.”
Singapore doctors who attended the conference, such as Associate Professor Tan Huay Cheem, chief of National University Hospital’s cardiac department, as well as Dr Low Lip Ping and Dr Bernard Ee, cardiologists in private practice, thought that the study was “important”.
The international study underlined the need for the aggressive approach when dealing with diabetic patients’ Mood pressure symptoms, said the doctors.
However, they said, more evidence is needed before the extra step of treating all diabetics with anti-hypertensive drugs is taken.
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Anger and Hostility raises risk of Diabetes
Researchers studying 313 healthy Vietnam war veterans in the United States have found that anger and hostility may increase the risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.
Over a period of 10 years, the selected men undergone regular physical examinations involving a wide variety of medical tests. Part of the examinations requires them to go through psychological examinations using well-established questionnaires to determine their levels of hostility, anger and depression.
The researchers measured blood levels of a protein called C3, a marker for the inflammation that is a risk factor for cardiovascular illnesses. After controlling for other variables, the scientists found that those in the highest one-quarter in hostility, anger and depression showed a steady and significant increase in C3 levels, while those in the lowest one-quarter had no increase.
This may put those men at increased risk for hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease,” said Stephen Boyle, the lead author of the study and a researcher at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.
Why these increases in C3 levels happen is unknown, but the authors speculate that anger in hostile and depressed men initiates a series of chemical responses in the immune system that lead to inflammation.
Taking steps to control hostility may be helpful.
“There are interventions that appear to be useful in lowering levels of anger,” Boyle said. “I don’t know if their long-term effects on physiology have been tested, but if you’re less angry and hostile, that in itself is a worthy goal.”
Diabetes - Are You At Risk ? - a low glycemic load diet can help !
- Are you rarely wide awake within 15 minutes of rising?
- Do you need tea, coffee, a cigarette or something sweet to get you going in the morning ?
- Do you often have energy slumps during the day or after meals ?
- Do you crave something sweet or a stimulant after meals ?
- Do you often have mood swings or difficulty concentrating ?
- Do you get dizzy or irritable if you go six hours without food ?
- Do you find you over-react to stress ?
- Is your energy now less than it used to be ?
- Do you feel too tired to exercise ?
- Are you gaining weight, and finding it hard to lose it, even though you are not noticeably eating more or exercising less ?
- Do you get very thirsty and pee a lot - especially at night ?
- Do you get blurred vision ?
** If you experience many of these symptoms, check your blood sugar levels. (we highly recommend the ” Accu-chek Compact Plus ” all-in-one glucometer for painless, accurate and convenience ) You are likely to have insulin resistance and will benefit from a low GL diet (low glycemic load diet), plus chromium and cinnamon.
(nb: A low glycemic load diet involves eating foods which provide a slow release of sugar, together with protein foods, like a few nuts with an apple.)
Can You Cure Diabetes Naturally ? Complete Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes is Possible
There is NO CURE for Diabetes ! It’s for life, and you will rely on medication for the rest of your life ! This is what most people diagnosed with adult-onset ( or type 2 diabetes), are told. One in 10 people over 40 now suffer from this life-threatening condition.
(nb: In type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of cases of diabetes, the body produces insulin but is unable to use it effectively)
Yet, complete reversal, without the need for medication, is being reported by an increasing number of former diabetics by following a low ‘glycemic load’ diet, in combination with a mineral supplement and the spice cinnamon.
(nb: A low glycemic load diet involves eating foods which provide a slow release of sugar, together with protein foods, like a few nuts with an apple.)
World renowned diabetes expert Fedon Lindberg of Norway has reported complete reversal of type 2 diabetes, even in those injecting insulin, by this radical non-drug approach. ‘A balanced low glycemic load (GL) diet, coupled with a healthy lifestyle, can also achieve non-diabetic sugar levels without the need for medication - therefore ‘reversing’ the disease,’ he says. He has challenged the Norwegian Diabetes Association to change its advice.
Despite 15 controlled studies on chromium, 13 of which show benefit for stabilising blood sugar, most diabetics are still being told ‘you get all the nutrients you need in a well-balanced diet’.
This is simply untrue for chromium. A really good, wholefood diet might give you 50mcg a day. You need 500mcg a day if you are diabetic. (It is very safe to take this much as the toxic level is above 10,000mcg.)
Chromium is in unrefined foods. Sugar, white flour and white rice have up to 98 per cent of the chromium removed. It works by improving the sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. Insulin insensitivity, called insulin resistance, is the first indication of pre-diabetes, and affects the majority of overweight people.
Cinnamon, the other key natural remedy for blood sugar regulation, contains something called MCHP which mimics the action of insulin. There is a concentrated extract of cinnamon called Cinnulin® which is high in MCHP for those who do not like eating cinnamon every day.
In one study, volunteers with type 2 diabetes were given cinnamon capsules after meals. All responded to the cinnamon within weeks, lowering blood sugar levels by about 20 per cent. Some of the volunteers even achieved normal blood sugar levels. Tellingly, blood sugar levels started creeping up again after the diabetics stopped taking cinnamon.
The principle behind the low GL diet is eating foods which provide a slow release of sugar, together with protein foods. For example, having a few nuts with an apple, or seeds on an oat-based cereal, or fish with a small serving of brown rice. This leads to less hunger, reduced sugar cravings, increased energy and rapid weight loss, as well as stable blood sugar levels. But you have to do it properly - eating a strict 45 GLs a day.
If you have diabetes, I recommend supplementing 400mcg of chromium with breakfast, and 200mcg at lunch (it comes in 200mcg capsules). If you do not, but have low energy, weight gain or any other ‘pre-diabetes’ indicators, take 200mcg a day, with breakfast.
For cinnamon, you want 1g a day, or 500mg of a cinnamon extract. Half a teaspoon is 1g. If you are taking sulfonylurea medication be aware this might quickly become unnecessary and, in fact, cause too low blood sugar levels (a ‘hypo’) since the combination of diet plus supplements is so effective. This kind of approach is also great for prevention, and weight loss. Daily exercise is also an important part of the equation. With Diet and Exercise , you will be able to delay Diabetes and Normalize Blood Glucose.
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article by :
Patrick Holford
for Mind Your Body
Patrick Holford is the founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London and heads the Food of the Brain Foundation, pioneering nutritional approaches to mental health. He has written more than 20 health books, including the worldwide bestseller, the Optimum Nutrition Bible.
Caty and Erin - Twins with Type 1 Diabetes
Caty and Erin Gordon
Caty and Erin Gordon, twins with Type 1 diabetes, talk about how they cope with diabetes, what misconceptions some people still have concerning diabetes and why diabetes is Not A Big Deal if you know how to control it.
They both endorse the ACCU-CHEK Compact Plus System as their ”weapon” of choice in taming diabetes.
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Erin and Caty 17 year-old twinsType 1 diabetes
Diagnosed: 15 years ago. “We don’t know any other way to live.” Preferred system: ACCU-CHEK Compact Plus system, because it “spits out a strip.” Test their blood sugar: 10 times a day |
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| Preferred testing site: Fingertips. (Erin tried palm testing, but prefers the fingertip.)Self-care advice: Diabetes is nothing to be ashamed of. Make sure the people around you know how to help out if you have low blood sugar.
Nutrition tip: Erin and Caty count carbs, and this past year, they moved to insulin pumps, which has made control a bit easier. The pump gives them flexibility to adjust their insulin doses to cover their healthy food choices. Still, they agree that “the occasional cookie is okay. Fashion contribution: Colorful rubber pump wraps that coordinate with different outfits, so they can wear their pumps everywhere, including their next homecoming dance. Why they make self-care a priority: Diabetes isn’t in the way now. But if they don’t take care of themselves, it would get in the way. |
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* Get the facts on alternate site testing and talk with your doctor before deciding if it’s right for you.
