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Diabetes Research

Exercise For Diabetes

Exercise for Maintaining Weight Loss

A study in the January issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is the first one ever to examine how walking by itself can help us keep the weight off for the long term. Since almost all of us with type 2 diabetes struggle with our weight, this is a key part of controlling it.

Walking may or may not be more beneficial for us that other forms of physical activity. That’s not what the study was about. Rather, for most people walking is the least expensive and most readily available way to get the exercise that we all need.

The study monitored almost 5,000 men and women for 15 years. Walking works.
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Diabetes Complications

Breaking the Diabetes-Alzheimer’s Connection

Researchers finally know why people with diabetes are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease. That alone would be big news. The huge news is that we now know what we have to do to break the link.

Did you miss the growing number of reports in the past few years about how those of us who have diabetes are more likely to get Alzheimer’s as we age? I can understand, because until last year I ignored the evidence myself. We have enough on our plate already without worrying about a possible complication many years down the road that until now nobody knew how to prevent anyway.
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Diabetes Diet

Comparing Low-Carb and Low-Glycemic

Nobody ever compared whether a low-carb or a low-glycemic diet works better to control our blood glucose levels. Until now.

Both diets improved A1C levels and helped participants in a 24-week study to lose weight. But the low-carb group did a lot better.

Five doctors at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, just reported their results in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. Led by Eric Westman, M.D., the study, “Effect of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet versus a low-glycemic index diet on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus,” appeared on December 19.
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Diabetes Basics

Killing T Cells to Cure Diabetes

Dr. Richard K. Bernstein knows how to cure diabetes, and researchers are ready to start the research. All they need is money. Does anyone have enough money and care enough about curing diabetes to fund this research? Do you?

Even if you have type 1 diabetes, you almost certainly still have some of your beta cells. If your body stops killing them, they will replicate and produce insulin — and then you will possibly have a cure.

When I talked with Dr. Bernstein a few days ago, he told me that he knows how kill the specific killer T cells. Most famous as the leading proponent of a very low-carb diet, Dr. Bernstein is a diabetologist with a practice near New York City. He was also an engineer before he got in M.D. degree in his 40s.
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Diabetes Diet

New Glycemic Tables

Ever since 1995, when the first international tables of glycemic index appeared in print and on my website, they have been the gold standard for determining the glycemic index of as many foods as researchers had tested at that point.

Now, in the third revision of the international tables you can find the glycemic indexes of many more foods.

The 1995 tables listed the glycemic indexes of 565 foods from 79 studies in the professional literature from around the world. Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, of the school of microbial biosciences at Australia’s University of Sydney was the lead author of those and subsequent updates of those tables.
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Diabetes Basics

Supporting Diabetes Charities

Once upon a time I knew some people who wanted me to help them set up a charity. They were smart enough to know that they could make a lot of money by establishing a not-for-profit organization that would pay them outrageous salaries.

They said that I could be the vice-president of the charity. While I respected their intelligence, I declined their offer. I decided that I wasn’t as big a scumbag as they were.

However, they weren’t the first scumbags earning big bucks from our charity contributions. The salaries that many heads of charity organizations take home are obscene. And that includes some of our most respected diabetes organizations.
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