Diabetes

Engineered Insulin Could Offer Better Diabetes Control

Source: MIT News For patients with diabetes, insulin is critical to maintaining good health and normal blood-sugar levels. However, it’s not an ideal solution because it can be difficult for patie...

Study Suggests Sleep Loss May Lead to Type 2 Diabetes

Reposted from Diabetes.co.uk Not getting enough sleep impairs fat metabolism and disrupts the ability of insulin to stabilize blood glucose levels, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, accordin...

Positive Trial Results for Oral Diabetes Drug

(Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin maker, said on Friday it had received positive results from a Phase II trial of an oral version of a long-acting GLP-1 drug fo...

UCSD Study Finds Root Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, believe they have discovered the "root cause" of Type 2 diabetes — a molecular link between obesity and diabetes that may lead to new treatme...

Care for Type 2 Diabetes

The biggest risk factor for developing diabetes is being overweight, but not all body fat is created equal. Your risk is higher if you tend to carry your weight around your abdomen—the so-called “s...

How Fat Breakdown – Yes, Breakdown! – Contributes to Insulin Resistance

The body releases adrenaline, the fight-or-flight hormone, to provide short-term energy to respond to stress – say, to help you avoid getting eaten by a hungry tiger or trampled by a frightened ele...

Recipes: BBQ Chicken Pizza

Don’t you just love pizza? Most of them are off our eating plans, right? Can’t have pizza on a diabetes diet, right? Wrong! Thirty-nine (39) carbs for the entire pizza. Amazing! It comes to us from...

Diagnosing Diabetes at the Dentist Is Feasible

Screening patients for high glycemic levels using oral blood collected during a routine dental procedure gives as accurate a reading in HbA1c as traditional finger-stick readings and can identify a...

Recipes: Breakfast Fruit Bagel

  Don’t they look great? They are thin wheat bagels, peanut butter, banana, and strawberries. I have been eating these practically since diagnosis. They are tasty, filling and if you are counting c...

Top Secret

I like secrets. We all do. Tell me something that nobody else knows and I feel special, and for some very strange reason empowered. I also like to keep secrets. I just figure it's for me to know so...