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Stop Your Insulin Inhibitions
The Diabetes Blog
Mar 14th 2007 11:18AM What's missing from the information is meal composition. If you feed mice saturated fat, starches and sugars in their chow, their beta cells begin to die. You know what comes next.
If the urocortin studies produce an effective drug target, everyone can still eat their krispy cremes and pay thousands of dollars a year to fix their carbohydrate addiction.
Me? It's just so much simpler to eat right and avoid drug side effects, including an empty wallet.
Curbing the Diabetes Epidemic with 6 Oat Wafers
The Diabetes Blog
Mar 9th 2007 3:39PM This appears to be nothing but another glucose tolerance test. Depending on the price, it might be cheaper to buy two $1 rolls of glucose tablets, crush 18.5 of them into powder, mix into 6 - 8oz water, do a fasting test, drink the solution within 5 min, then test at 1 and 2 hrs.
Voila! A homemade 75g glucose tolerance test!
Off-label drug use - Would you do it?
The Diabetes Blog
Mar 5th 2007 10:52AM I've taken 15mg Remeron (mirtazapine) for insomnia. It has none of the benzodiazepine warnings associated with the usual sleep aids about tolerance or abuse, and doesn't leave me groggy in the morning.
Diabetic Foot Friendly Bed Frame
The Diabetes Blog
Mar 5th 2007 10:48AM I got rid of the base portion of the frame and placed the box spring right on the floor. Stubbing one's toe on the padded box spring is a lot gentler. Didn't cost me a cent, either! :)
Pasta designed for the Carb Conscious
The Diabetes Blog
Feb 25th 2007 8:54PM The key to preventing glucose spikes with Dreamfields is not to overcook it. If you do, the inulin encapsulation dissolves and the naked semolina acts just like any other pasta.
For the same reason stated above, you should expect a glucose spike if you reheat leftovers containing Dreamfields.
It's also important to understand inulin encapsulation allows the product to move further down the digestive tract before a glucose spike is released. Because of this, some folks don't see the rise in glucose until 3 to 6 hours afterwards.
Like always, use your meter to verify the suitability of this product in your nutrition planning.
Grad Student Thesis Paper Raises A Good Point
The Diabetes Blog
Feb 22nd 2007 7:31PM I suspected there was a relationship between cholesterol and beta cells. If more research proves this is true, perhaps there *are* situations where statins might be useful, especially in folks that have the familial forms of dyslipidemia.
Inulin, not Insulin (but just as helpful!)
The Diabetes Blog
Feb 22nd 2007 7:20PM Inulin is also a component of the 'shell' wrapped around semolina flour used in Dreamfields pasta.
Don't overcook it though. You'll dissolve the coating, turning the resulting product into regular pasta.
Panic Attacks interfere with Diabetes Control
The Diabetes Blog
Nov 27th 2006 5:00PM Our bodies are wonderfully adapted to short term stressors. But for each minute that a stressor such as anxiety persists past the time it is needed, cortisol keeps suppressing body systems that digest, store energy, and grow/repair/replenish cells -- muscle cells, pancreas cells, eye cells, nerve cells, lung cells, heart cells, brain cells, etc.
Cortisol also reduces the amount and quality of insulin. Without insulin, cells can't take up nutrients for energy or storage. Do this enough and some cells will starve. Cells that live become less sensitive to insulin. This leaves more glucose in the blood, eventually leading to glucose toxicity, insulin resistance, beta cell death, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) type 2 diabetes and associated complications.
Bridging the gap to reduce diabetic complications
The Diabetes Blog
Oct 25th 2006 3:15PM Why another new test?
Several studies since 2003 have confirmed post-prandial BG spikes contribute more to DM-associated disease progression.
A1C (and perhaps G1A) can be within acceptible range for tight control even when avg post-prandial BGs have spiked to 180mg/dl.
It makes more sense base tight control on post meal tests.
Vegan diet proves beneficial to Type 2 diabetics
The Diabetes Blog
Jul 28th 2006 4:27PM I notice they didn't cite stats for HDL or Triglycerides in the ADA or low-fat vegan participants. These diets usually lower HDL and raise Triglycerides.
