The Diabetes DTOUR Diet is based on new research that found that certain nutrients in foods are powerful at balancing blood sugar and encouraging weight loss. These four supernutrients—the Fat-Fighting 4—together help you take control. See them now!
Some people say they can’t lose weight, but almost anyone can lose. The problem is keeping the weight off. Very few people (5% in studies) maintain weight loss over the long term. Why do our bodies regain weight, and what can we learn from that?
Insulin allergy is now rare, but it does occur. Like any other allergic reaction it is triggered by a misguided response from the immune system, seeing a benign element as a foreign invader
Type 1 diabetes was previously thought to render the pancreas completely unable to produce insulin, the hormone responsible for controlling sugar entry into cells and subsequent blood levels.
Patch pumps were a diabetes revolution when they appeared on the market several years ago. The Snap® with its pre-filled insulin cartridges isn’t quite as dramatic a technological leap, but it sure does make the everyday routine of pump management easier.
We’ve all witnessed the latest trend in nutrition – the various versions of a “free from” diet. That is, Americans are increasingly defining our diets based on what we exclude. Here are a few examples of dietary patterns that look healthy on paper but result in poor health outcomes in practice.
The American Diabetes Association recommends all people living with diabetes make nutrition therapy a part of their diabetes treatment plan, but emphasizes that there is no single eating pattern that is best for everyone, according to a position statement being published online Oct. 9 in Diabetes Care
There’s a lot of fuss and excitement about the newest diabetes device approved for people in the U.S.: Medtronic’s long-awaited 530G system and Enlite sensor… But at the same time, there’s a significant amount of frustration by people who feel they’re being misled on a number of fronts about this new device.
People with type 2 diabetes and those heading toward that diagnosis may face a quicker decline in their beta cell function than previously understood, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
An insulin pill, long desired by diabetes doctors and patients but abandoned as not physically viable, could be available by the end of this decade as a tiny Israeli company races a Danish pharmaceutical giant to be first with what could be a multibillion-dollar product.
Thanks to the biomarker known as NT-proBNP (a hormone specific to the heart), the sub-group of diabetics who are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease can be determined even though their hearts appear to be healthy.
It can be frustrating to explain the battle that all families face every hour of every day, and that can be compounded by having to deal with people’s common misunderstandings and misperceptions, including the widely-held belief that T1D is not a serious disease. Here are some of those myths.
The drug is intended to help people who suffer from diabetic foot ulcers, and, if successful, could help the estimated 70,000 Americans who undergo an amputation due to diabetes complications each year, Garcia said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Damage to the retina due to diabetes can be ameliorated only partially, despite treatment with the standard drug metformin. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered that metformin treatment normalizes the alterations induced by diabetes in only about half of the altered retinal proteins. The results of the study were published in the journal Diabetologia.
Others have written much about what the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, means for diabetics. I will leave the analysis to the people who have done the research. I just want to tell you what Obamacare feels like to a diabetic.
The Danish company said it planned to spend the money through to 2020 on six diabetes pills it has under development and that the sum included potential production facilities.
While you’ve been hearing a lot about Obamacare this week, the majority of Americans don’t need to buy their policies through the new health insurance marketplaces, also called exchanges. Instead, most will get next year’s health insurance through work. In fact, you probably have an e-mail sitting in your inbox right now reminding you to […]
According to an Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS), high calcium serum concentrations are associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes.
A new study released today shows that among patients undergoing surgery for chronic wounds related to diabetes, the risk of wound-related complications is affected by how well the patient’s blood sugar levels are controlled before surgery. These findings appear in the October issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American […]
The calculation of that bolus dose of insulin can alter the course of your day. If your blood sugar is too high after a couple of hours, you’ll have to give yourself more insulin. If it’s too low, you’ll have to find something else to eat. And those errors can lead to even further swings […]