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7 Easy Ways to Slash Your Diabetes Risk

August 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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New research from Women’s Health Magazine finds you can slash your diabetes risk by following these healthy tips:

1. Hit the Weights. Upping your lean muscle mass could lower your insulin resistance, and drop your odds of developing pre-diabetes. Or every 10-percent increase in muscle mass, your pre-diabetes risk fell by 12-percent. Aim for at least two and a half hours a week of glucose-burning cardio activity — like running, cycling, or swimming.

2. Score Enough Sleep. Long-term sleep deprivation may amp up the body’s insulin resistance, especially in people genetically predisposed to diabetes. Those who regularly snoozed fewer than six hours a night were at the highest risk. Try to get at least seven hours of shut-eye each evening.

3. Fiber up. The rough stuff isn’t just good for digestion; it also curbs post-meal sugar spikes by slowing down the flow of glucose into the bloodstream. So when you crave something sweet, opt for fiber-rich fruits like raspberries or pears. And consider adding brown rice to your diet because it lowers your diabetes risk by 11%.

4. Chill Out. When your body senses stress, it releases hormones that increase blood sugar. Regularly practicing deep breathing or meditation, listening to calming music, or getting massages can quell stress hormones and help lower overall blood sugar.

5. Embrace the Omegas. The omega-3 fatty acids found in foods like oily fish, can help improve insulin sensitivity. Eat at least one serving of this kind of seafood a week.

6. Do the D. The “sunshine vitamin” may be a key factor in the fight against diabetes. A review published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that people with high vitamin-D levels were less likely to develop type 2. Swallow 1,000 to 2,000 IU a day through dairy foods, fatty fish, or supplements.

7. Spice Things Up. Cinnamon may be an ace at lowering blood sugar levels, says research in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Rich in nutrients called polyphenols, the sweet spice may help insulin do its job more effectively. Sprinkle some into your morning joe or mix it into an oatmeal snack.

Diabetes is a serious chronic disease but that can be managed through lifestyle changes and medications such as generic Glucophage 850mg.

Surgery May Reverse Effects of Diabetes

March 30, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Two new studies have been published stating that gastric bypass surgery may be a useful new tool in diabetes treatment. The results of the two studies show that the surgery drastically reduces the symptoms of diabetes, or in some patients, it disappears altogether. Doctors are unsure why exactly this surgery works so well for Type 2 diabetes sufferers, but some believe it is due to hormone changes. This surgery is only available for diabetic patients with a body mass index of 35 or higher.

A typical woman has a body mass index between 19 and 25. According to researchers on the study, one diabetic woman who underwent the surgery now only uses 10 milligrams of insulin per day; she was taking nine times that pre-surgery. Unfortunately gastric bypass surgery doesn’t have the same effect on Type 1 diabetics. This is due to their fundamental differences. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune disorder, whereas type 2 is generally a complication of obesity. While the pounds melt off, so do the symptoms of diabetes.

Gastric bypass surgery uses a band to segregate the stomach into two pouches. The doctors then reattach the small intestine to the upper half of the stomach, which is now significantly smaller. Bariatric surgeons typically only perform this type of surgery on someone who is morbidly obese, which is a body mass index or 40 or more. They will also perform gastric bypass on a patient with a body mass index of 35, if they also have a ‘co-morbid condition’ such as diabetes.

If you are not currently accepted for this type of surgery, you will have to control your diabetes using long acting insulins such as Lantus or Levemir. We recommend that you buy anti-diabetes medications online, at a Canadian pharmacy. This will significantly reduce the financial burden caused by a long term disease such as diabetes.

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New Diabetic Treatment – Artificial Pancreas

March 5, 2012 by · 2 Comments
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Artificial pancreas

Clinical trials are currently being run for a treatment that may change the lives of diabetics. Instead of scheduled blood sugar checks, diabetics with an artificial pancreas can sleep through the whole night. The artificial pancreas is designed to digitally monitor a patients glucose levels and adjust them when the get too high or too low.

When it becomes main stream, the bionic pancreas will be about the size of a cell phone, but for clinical trials the patients are hooked up to laptops. The device uses algorithms to determine how much insulin is needed and at which time. There are two parts under the skin, one to detect the patients’ glucose levels, and the other to inject the appropriate amount of insulin, or if necessary, the bionic pancreas can also inject Glucagon, a medication designed to rapidly raise dangerously low blood sugar levels.

The trials are currently only for adults and children in hospitals. For safety reasons, they are constantly monitored. The researchers are hoping to have this product on the market in the coming years, with patients being fitted with their artificial pancreas, monitored, and then sent home, no longer having to worry about lancets, insulin injections or what/how much they are eating.

Until the artificial pancreas has passed many more obstacles and testing, diabetics will have to continue their medication and monitoring regimens. In order to make it slightly easier, doctors may recommend that you buy Januvia, or other medications for type 2 diabetes to help regulate your blood sugar. .