Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Diabetes Walk/Run at TROY

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:25:01 +0000

Nick Westerfer a 20 year old sophomore at Bloomsburg University and a 2006 graduate of Troy High School, organized a 5K Run/Walk. The event is is named after his grandmother, Edith Westerfer, who passed away in January 1996, and his grandfather, Louis Fresta, who died in January 2005, from diabetes. Westerfer wanted to do something in their honor and something to raise money for and send to the American Diabetes Association .
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Retina Scans help identify Diabetes

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:25:05 +0000

Retina Scans can be used to identify Diabetes.

Project Vision, the group offering the scans, says the 10-minute process can help identify diabetes and other diseases, such as high-blood pressure and glaucoma.[via]

Mediterranean Diet is the key to Type 2 Diabetes Prevention

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:19:23 +0000

A new study suggests that the Mediterranean diet may help ward of Diabetes Type 2. It is all over the news[Follow the links below].

The Mediterranean diet consisting mainly of Vegetables, Fruits, Olive Oil, Fish and less animal products, and as you see the food items you can see that it is actually very healthy, and the particular diet is long known to be good for fighting cardiovascular diseases, but the recent study suggest that it can ward of diabetes.

I would say that this diet would actually prevent Diabetes, and this is something that I have been been trying follow religiously, not knowing that it could be the Mediterranean diet.

I have always espoused the following of a healthy diet plan, and a healthy lifestyle to ward of Diabetes. When your food mainly comprises of Fruits, vegetables, Olive Oils and Fish (with Omega-3 fatty acids), this will actually help you control your weight as well, and if you can fight obesity, that is half the battle won against the fight for Diabetes.

And this study has strengthened my belief in a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of Diabetes.

My thought is reflected by some other expert here,

“This study reminds me of a comment I once heard someone else say — ‘Research simply confirms what we already know or suspect,’ ” said Lona Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

And yes, switch to Olive Oil.
Taste great and it is healthy, what more can you ask for?
Take a packet of mixed vegetables, the frozen kind that you get in supermarkets, with peas, beans, Broccolli, carrots and such like. Defrost the whole Packet.

Heat a table spoon of olive oil.
Chop a small onion and add it to the oil.
Add two cloves of crushed garlic.
Add the vegetables and stir fry for 5 minutes.
Add pepper and salt to taste.

I absolutely love this.

More:
[US news]
[CTV]
[AFP]
[Science Daily]
[Reuters]
[BBC News]
[The Independent]

Fatty Liver linked to Diabetic Kidney Disease

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:19:25 +0000

For patients with type 2 diabetes, a condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) may be an important risk factor for diabetes-related chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study in the August Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
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Vaccine Reverses Type 1 in Mice

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:32:47 +0000

In another breakthrough, Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found a vaccine that reversed Type-1 Diabetes in Mice. Though, it doesn’t imply that it will work on Human, this certainly is a very optimistic development. Clinical Trials on Humans will begin soon says the report.

An experimental vaccine has prevented and reversed type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh reported Wednesday.

The vaccine has not been tested in humans, but researchers hope to begin clinical trials late next year. [source]