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Diabetes Weight Loss – Some Valuable Tips
Posted by admin in Diabetes, Tips, Weight Loss on October 8, 2011
Diabetes is the most dreadful disease nowadays. Diabetes arises when the pancreas cannot produce sufficient insulin which is a hormone that enables the cells to take in glucose from the blood and use it for providing energy. Failure to produce insulin by the pancreas can result in increased blood sugar levels in the body. Diabetic patients have to be extra careful because diabetic complications are much more than any other disease and in the extreme case, it can cause failure of various organs and tissues of the body. There are basically three types of diabetes namely Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes. Type 1 is the insulin dependent diabetes and Type 2 is the non-insulin dependent diabetes. Most of the cases of diabetes are actually Type 2 diabetes. Usually Type 1 diabetes occurs in children or young adults and Type 2 diabetes most often occurs in people over the age of 40. Gestational diabetes is another form of diabetes caused due to high blood glucose levels during pregnancy. This type of diabetes usually disappears after pregnancy, but women and their offspring are at an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes later in their life as well.
There’s no question about it: If you are overweight and have type 2 diabetes, dropping pounds lowers your blood sugar, improves your health, and can have you feeling better. Read the rest of this entry »
Healthy Food Choices – How to Avoid Heart Disease, Diabetes and Obesity
Posted by admin in Diabetes, Disease, Healthy Food, Obesity on September 29, 2011
There is now strong evidence that carbohydrates are the baddies in the war against obesity, heart disease and diabetes. So where does this leave the well established theory about saturated fat and how it not only increases our weight but is also responsible for heart disease?
In a nutshell research is now telling us to do the opposite to what we have been told to do in the past in order to stay healthy. Back in the 70′s when the treatment of cholesterol became popular; doctors took a very simplistic view believing that dietary saturated fat led to body fat. You only have to look around you to see that the eating recommendations that occurred as a result of this theory have had devastating effects upon our health and the prevalence of diseases such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Saturated fat was once blamed for heart, cholesterol and obesity problems and we were encouraged to eat less meat and more carbohydrates (e.g. bread, cereals). But now multiple studies are revealing that this was all wrong! One such 2010 study reviewed the evidence around this subject (Astrup, A. et al, Am J Clin Nutr:2011 Jan 26) and found that “replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates does not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), and may even increase the risk”. (Dairy Nutrition News April 2011) Read the rest of this entry »