When I read about this, all I thought of was Diabetes and all that it entails.

Story

There is this woman, Susanne Eman from Casa Grande Arizona, who is okay with being 800 pounds +. She wants to weigh even more because, get this, she is trying to become the fattest woman ever trying to beat the record of Rosalie Bradford who hit 1200 pounds and died in 2006.  Of course, she wanted love to go along with this mental-insane coocooness so she went to internet dating I believe and found herself a man, Parker Clack who is a chef, of course, and they are allegedly getting married this summer. I’m not judging nor do I ever try to because I could care less about what choices people make except that they are healthy ones but who is the more crazy one and who is the desperate one? Which leads me to my Diabetes part of this.

Body Thought and Mental Health

This morbidly obese woman is asking or wanting to die and/or get one or more diseases such as Diabetes, heart failure, and more. If she doesn’t already, she will have Type 1 or more likely Type 2 Diabetes.  It seems like it might be a fast and quick down hill roller coaster from here to death (as long as she is okay with that) if she doesn’t seek help. In all, if nothing else, she is getting publicity for this and maybe that’s what she wants too because after all, she is trying to be the fattest woman in the nation or the world…? Not sure on that but I’m sure she is or will be.

Final Thought

Please, if you are obese, lose weight (if you want or can). If you are not obese, stay there.

Avoid Type 2 Diabetes by living a healthy lifestyle. Do your best. Conquer. Succeed.

Side Note: That’s why they say you need to eat food or enough of it when you give insulin because the insulin has to “eat” the food up that is in you. If you don’t eat when you have active insulin in you, you either go low (have low blood sugar; BG) or you go high because it’s your body’s natural reaction for the liver to push out glucose from its emergency supply and bring your BG up.

So yes, your muscles need continuous glucose for you to function whether you are a diabetic or not but more so if you are a diabetic. This hormone from fat stem cells could lead to new treatment by keeping lower blood sugar (does this mean lower than what it should be or in range or in control; inconclusive) and improving metabolism (does this also mean increase metabolism because most of us want that; doesn’t say that though; inconclusive, insignificant) by feeding the body and essentially the muscles the hormone from fat stem cells.

Therapeutic Promise of New Hormone for Lowering Blood Sugar

from: medicalnewstoday.com

New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can’t get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.

This new fat-derived hormone would appear to be a useful alternative or add-on to insulin; it can do essentially the same job, sending glucose out of the bloodstream and into muscle.

“It’s like you’ve opened the door and now the glucose can come in,” said Jonathan Graff of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Graff’s team manipulated a key developmental pathway in the fat stem cells of mice to find that the animals showed remarkably low blood sugar levels. The animals’ muscles were taking up glucose at two to four times the usual rate thanks to an abundance of glucose transporters at their surfaces. That discovery was all the more striking because the animals also lacked fat stores, a condition known as lipodystrophy that normally results in just the opposite: high blood sugar and Diabetes.

The mice could respond normally to insulin, but insulin surprisingly had nothing to do with the muscles’ unusual appetite for sugar. The source for the change wasn’t anything inherently different in the muscle itself either; it was something about those manipulated fat stem cells.

Further experiments revealed that the mouse muscles continued to take up extra sugar when they were isolated in the lab and exposed to blood serum. “It showed these effects were likely secondary to blood-borne signals sent by the manipulated fat cell progenitors,” Graff says.

That signal can be generated only by fat stem cells, not mature fat cells. When the researchers made the same developmental manipulation in adult fat cells, they saw no such effect on blood sugar or muscle.

The findings highlight a new fat to muscle hormonal cue that would seem to have real therapeutic promise.

“If we can purify this factor and give it to people, there is potential for its use to lower and help control blood sugar,” Graff says. Alternatively, there might be a way to encourage fat stem cells in the body to produce more of the anti-diabetic factor themselves.

Celebrate with all that is Green and Happy!

Don’t get too drunk but get too happy,

find a leprechaun and gold,

and you’ll be set with all that folds,

now get some love and sugar if you’re going low,

because you don’t want to miss all the fun.

Have a great day!

Food & Fact                                                

Cinnamon,  Cayenne, Spices,  Avocado, Fish, Cider, soy, natural sugars, Vitamin D, E, and pretty much all other vitamins, minerals, solids, and fluids you need in your body. Any kind of food that is slow absorption and releases sugar slower to give energy for a longer period of time is beneficial. That’s why, good carbs, good calorie, fiber, protein are all good. The more natural straight from the earth, unrefined, unprocessed, organic, ungenetically-modified, the better the food is you consume. You need to care what you put into your body, where it comes from, and how it’s made.

Consumption of White Food and Flour Products Linked to Diabetes

by Shona Botes, naturalnews.com

For many people these days, the emphasis seems to be on eating foods which look the nicest and which look appealing. Unfortunately, these snow white and visually appealing foods come with a hefty price tag. That price tag isn’t one that is measured in monetary terms, but rather in terms of your health and wellbeing. An ingredient called alloxan, which is found in products containing white flour, destroys the beta cells in the pancreas by causing free radical damage to the DNA. This puts you at a much higher risk of contracting diabetes.

White food products become white because of the fact that all of their fiber, minerals, and vitamins have been stripped from them. These refining processes result in foods, which are actually empty calorie sources, because they are left with no nutritional value in them. Eating these refined food products has also been shown to increase the risk of heart attacks by as much as 30%. Several studies have shown that people who consume wholegrain and unprocessed food products have a 30% lower risk of contracting heart disease than those who consume white food products.

Flour used to make white bread and food products is chemically bleached with substances like benzoyl peroxide, nitrosyl, oxide of nitrogen, chloride and chlorine. These in turn have various chemical salts added to them to enhance the bleaching process. Nutrients which are removed from the flour during the bleaching process include Vitamin E, potassium, phosphorus, copper, niacin, calcium, thiamin, pantothenic acid and pyridoxine.

White rice experiences the same nutrient loss as white flour when processed. Where brown rice is produced by simply removing the grain husks, white rice is produced by removing the inner husk as well. Once this is done, the grains are then polished with glucose to enhance their visual appeal.

These processes result in foods which have an extremely high GI (glycemic index) content. These result in sugars being released into the bloodstream far more rapidly than they should be. This causes blood sugar levels to spike and releases more insulin into the bloodstream. This results in the pancreas being overworked, which can result in diabetes.

White food products also lead to an increase in LDL (bad) cholesterol in the arteries. They also cause the metabolism to slow down, which results in weight gain, especially around the stomach and waist areas. Their lack of dietary fiber can also lead to constipation in more sensitive individuals. Because the body is then not able to remove all of the waste products it contains, it can then become more susceptible to other diseases such as Crohn`s disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and even colon cancer.

Ok, this is just funny but in a way sad. All the news says she has had Type 2 Diabetes for three years now but didn’t tell the public and probably not even herself because she wasn’t treating, controlling, or taking charge of it. The only thing she apparently did was have gastric bypass surgery in 02′.  We know she is a food lover, a chef you could say or at least food maker, and now as we know a Type 2 diabetic.

Pros and cons, first time ever, where I’m blending them together because it’s good and bad at the same time.

1. Paula Deen has become a paid spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. She also uses and takes the company’s diabetes medication called Victoza. She is collaborating with them on a website (will not name here) which offers recipes and information about the disease.

2. She is donating money to the American Diabetes Association, no response given why, could be the negative press, could be because it’s a nice thing to do and she wants to, and the amount is unknown.

3. She’s a distraction. The media storm surrounding the news of her illness is exactly the sort of publicity bonanza the pharmaceutical company must have dreamed of when it hired Deen to be the spokesperson for its new marketing campaign.

4. Tragedy to opportunity all because she hasn’t taken care of her body and because she is rich. Why can’t this happen to a regular person? There are many of them out there who do actually and would love to receive money from a pharmaceutical company to do their advertising. I know, I know, it’s because people know her/famously known and already has a reputation with the public and people look to people like this a “role model”. She’s NOT a role model though, she’s just helping with the money part of things by giving to an organization and NOT helping by being greedy and receiving more money that she doesn’t need.

Ok, well, we’ve heard these stories before. It may be successful in the long run and may not. It’s the game of a toss-up. Obviously this man has had Diabetes for at least 30 years and unable to do anything for 7 years because of complications, sounds to me probably because he hadn’t been taking control, but I’m not going to make assumptions, just saying. Therefore, he was on the list and on his last leg resorting to trying anything such as having a “fake” pancreas put in him.

Artificial Pancreas is Implanted in Diabetic: Medicine: Experiment is first in U.S. If successful, procedure may eliminate the need for insulin shots.

by Thomas H. Maugh II, Times science writer

Physicians at St. Vincent Medical Center announced Thursday that they have begun the first U.S. human trials of an artificial pancreas that they hope will someday free diabetics from the need for insulin injections.

The artificial pancreas was implanted last week in the abdomen of 38-year-old Steven Craig of Lake Isabella, who has been diabetic for more than 30 years and has been unable to work for seven years because of complications of the disease. It is the first of 20 such implants the hospital is planning during the next two years.

Walking, running, jogging is great! Being a diabetic with poor circulation is no fun but the more you move around the better your body is at keeping warm or staying cool. For some people, though, their feet may not be in the greatest shape because of not taking care of or controlling their Diabetes or for other reasons. Yet, if you can, walking around and doing some sort of physical moving of your feet and legs can really help such as less cardiovascular issues, more stable-controlled blood sugar, and decreasing the risk of an ulcer.

Getting on Their Feet May Benefit Diabetics

by Jane E. Allen, Times staff writer

Patients with a history of diabetic foot ulcers long have been advised to avoid weight-bearing exercise, because the extra pressure was thought to increase their risk of developing or worsening these hard-to-heal sores.

But a new study questions that advice. Researchers found that diabetic patients who do more standing, walking and other activity involving their feet have a decreased risk of developing ulcers. Walking can help them better manage their blood sugar levels and improve their cardiovascular health. And gradually increasing activity probably protects foot tissues, the researchers found.

There are always ways to stay sharp, keep your mind sharp, and doing things that will stimulate your brain to think critically. Such as reading, learning and seeing new words, crosswords, soduku, math, science, and any analytical-critical-problem-solving skills and habits. It’s good for you mind, body, and soul. Of course, the better you take care of your body the less likely you’ll have problems. Be careful and conscious of what you put into your body everyday such as having a balanced diet and eating well most of the time. Controlling blood sugar is very very important. So don’t have sugar and carbohydrates (complex carbohydrates) all the time. Eat healthy carbohydrates and natural sugar and not a whole diet-eating-lifestyle like this. Again, keep balanced and moderate with everything you eat and do. I mean, yes, eating more vegetables and fruit more often is good while sustaining and getting plenty of exercise or physical exertion. Truly eating well and moving your body well everyday while maintaining emotional health, I can almost say, you can always have a lot of both. What you do now affects what you’ll be or do later in life and time.

By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times

Looking at the Link Between Diabetes & Dementia

Researches look at preventing memory disorders by controlling blood sugar now

Two of the most worrisome trends in healthcare — the soaring rates of Type 2 diabetes and dementia — share several key biological processes. And scientists are beginning to think that is more than just a coincidence.

Many researchers now believe that proper control of blood sugar could pay dividends in the future by reducing the number of people stricken by Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia and even the normal cognitive decline that comes with age.

Smoking, Diabetes Increase Risk of Heart Attacks, Strokes, Death    

They’re called “risk factors” for a reason – people with high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and/or a smoking habit are much more likely to have heart attacks, strokes and other manifestations of cardiovascular disease, including death.

A new study coming out in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed health data on more than 250,000 adults to confirm that those who had any of these risk factors were in greater peril than those who didn’t. The more risk factors a person had – and the more severe they were – the greater the lifetime risk of a “cardiovascular event.” This trend held for both men and women, and for both whites and blacks.

Health News From MedPage Today

Clock Gene Mutations Tick Toward Diabetes: To make up for the body’s loss of melatonin, receptor agonists may be beneficial for Type 2 Diabetes therapy.

by Crystal Phend, reviewed by Zaiman S. Agus, MD

Several rare genetic mutations affecting melatonin, the key circadian rhythm hormone, substantially boost Diabetes risk, researchers found.Thirteen mutations that partially or completely shut down the receptor for melatonin, which regulates functions such as sleep and insulin release, were associated with 5.67-fold higher risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Philippe Froguel, MD, PhD, of Imperial College London, and colleagues discovered.