diabetes
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Leveling Sugar
Asia’s demand for food and beverages that are low in sugar increases as incidents of obesity and Type 2 diabetes continue to rise.
diabetes | 01 September 2011
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Scientific review: Consuming glucosamine does not affect glucose metabolism
A comprehensive review of oral glucosamine use and its effect on glucose metabolism in normal and diabetic individuals has been accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews . The authors of the revie…
diabetes | 27 January 2011
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Researchers study cinnamon extracts on prediabetes
A study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Richard Anderson suggests that a water soluble extract of cinnamon, which contains antioxidative compounds, could help reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease. Fo…
diabetes | 02 September 2010
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Biotransformed blueberry juice found to fight fat and diabetes
Pierre S. Haddad, a pharmacology professor at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine. (Source: Marc Robitaille) Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds …
diabetes | 01 October 2009
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Study reinforces role of walnuts in diet
A new study has found that keeping the diet for type 2 diabetes under control gets a lot of help from including daily amounts of food with the right kind of fat such as walnuts. The latest findings have been published in the European Journal of C…
diabetes | 13 May 2009
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Tea may be a source of future diabetes therapies
Scientists working at the University of Dundee have identified new potentially therapeutic properties in an unexpected place: black tea. While green tea has long been held by many to possess various beneficial effects for our health the same has n…
diabetes | 12 March 2008
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Tooth decay and gum disease may contribute to pre-diabetes
Here’s a good reason to use non-cariogenic sugar substitutes: Tooth decay may contribute to the progression to pre-diabetes. (Pre-diabetes is a condition of elevated blood-glucose levels, which is not high enough to be classified as diabetes.) The re…
diabetes | 01 June 2007
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Coffee intake linked to lower diabetes risk
Drinking coffee, especially the decaffeinated kind, may help to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, says a report in the June 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. While coffee has been found to lower the risk for diabetes, it remains un…
diabetes | 29 June 2006
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Researchers discover how a high-fat diet causes type 2 diabetes
When a high-fat, Western-style diet is eaten, it disrupts insulin production resulting in the classic signs of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. The study, published in this week’s Cell, could give important insights into how to regulate insulin…
diabetes | 29 December 2005
