Please, say it and do it everyday! Whatever it takes! Control your Diabetes, Care about your Diabetes, and Carbohydrate count the food you eat. Plus, all the other things involved in your life. Exercise, physical activity, moving your body, giving right amounts of insulin consistently at correct times, too. Sounds easy right?! Well, it not, [...]

by news.yahoo.com Health Tip: Controlling Your Diabetes (HealthDay News) — Tight diabetes control means carefully managing your meals, exercise and medication to ensure that your blood glucose levels are stable. The American Diabetes Association mentions these potential benefits of tight diabetes control: Lower risk of diabetic eye disease, kidney disease and nerve disease. Reduced risk [...]

by diabetes.org/news-research Serotonin and Dietary Protein Control Risk for Gestational Diabetes During pregnancy, the mother’s metabolism fluctuates to accommodate the nutritional needs of her growing baby. The mother naturally becomes insulin-resistant, ensuring a steady flow of energy and nourishment for her baby as the unused sugar in her bloodstream diverts to the womb. Her body [...]

by diabetes.org/news-research Brain Hormones Regulate Diabetes and Female Fertility The hypothalamus is a central region of the brain that has shown to play an important role in key metabolic functions, such as regulation of food intake, appetite, and body weight. Research funded by the American Diabetes Association provides a novel understanding of how this area [...]

by diabetes.org/news-research Insulin Signaling in the Brain Controls Fat Metabolism One of the hallmark defects of type 2 diabetes is resistance to insulin produced in the pancreas. Yet, scientists at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine have made a novel discovery that another organ – the brain – plays a more pivotal role in the [...]

news.yahoo.com by Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben Vitamin D Helps to Prevent Diabetes and Thyroid Disease A new study from Tufts Medical Center in Boston is linking increased levels of vitamin D with a reduced risk of Type 2 Diabetes. Vitamin D is also important in managing thyroid disease. There are two types of vitamin D: D2 [...]

by www.bbc.co.uk Diabetes Patient Hails “life changing” Cell Transplants The first woman in Scotland to receive donated pancreatic cells to treat her Diabetes has described the procedure as “life changing”. Kathleen Duncan, who has Type 1 Diabetes, no longer requires insulin after having a pancreatic islet cell transplant. She is among patients being treated as [...]

Happy 4th of July! Have Fun, be safe, and consume wisely. As usual, this is just a suggestion, I’m not saying to do it as people have different needs, food criteria, portion size, dietary wants and needs, calorie intake or non-intake, etc. Be aware that the above total for carbohydrates and calories are (what I [...]

www.huffingtonpost.com Chris Noth has an unquestionably recognizable face. Having starred in television shows that run the gamut of genres — from Mr. Big in “Sex and the City” to Detective Mike Logan on “Law & Order” to Peter Florrick on “The Good Wife” — Noth has attracted quite a bit of critical acclaim and fan [...]

www.mercurynews.com Diabetes hits close to home for A’s players Rich or poor, few people have not been touched in some way by diabetes, a potentially deadly disease growing so rapidly it is considered an epidemic in the United States. In Alameda County, the percentage of people suffering from diabetes — 7.8 percent — outstrips the [...]