Wood Duck
May 01, 2011
Tantra Lake, Boulder, Colorado
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My New Diabetes Articles for HealthCentral:
Last month HealthCentral published five more of my diabetes articles about all aspects of the condition:
Who knows whether coffee is good or bad for people who don't have diabetes. But for us who have it, studies show that caffeine exaggerates the rise in glucose when we eat carbohydrates. This is either a reason to avoid coffee or cut out starch and sugars.
Many people with diabetes still take one of the insulin secretagogues. But metformin may be a better choice. A huge study of more than 100,000 people in Denmark compared the prevalence of heart attacks and strokes suffered by people who took insulin secretagogues and metformin. Those who had not already had a heart attack had a fifth to a third higher risk of death from any cause if they were taking one of the insulin secretagogues. Among those who had already had a heart attack the risk was a third to a half higher.
A new study of people with pre-diabetes shows that they get remarkable benefits from support groups. If group support helps people who have pre-diabetes, it is probably much more likely to help those of us who are already burdened with this condition. Now more and more of us are choosing to get online support.
A new study shows that fasting lowers the risk of heart disease and diabetes and increases the good HDL cholesterol and reduces triglycerides, weight, and blood glucose levels. Yet it also increases the bad LDL cholesterol.
- Fitness and Photograph for Fun:
Last month I published seven more of my articles on staying fit by getting the activity we need. Photography is what does it for me:
If you have any interest in controlling your diabetes by low-carb eating, one of the best resources is Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's monthly webcast. It's an hour of excellent diabetes education.
Dr. Bernstein's next live tele-seminar is Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at 7PM CST, 8PM EST, 6PM MST, 5PM PST. He designed it to answer your most important questions concerning diabetes and to offer his thoughts on the latest developments in this area.
The seminar is free. You can click here to register: http://www.diabetes911.net/askdrb/index.php. It's also available as a live webcast both on the Internet and by phone.
Whenever you want to find anything that I have written about diabetes -- whether on my website or on the Health Central Network -- the easiest way is to use the search tool on my site. You can search for all of the articles on my site or for the "Diabetes Developments" blog or the "Fitness and Photography for Fun" blog or what I have written at Health Central.
Just go to mendosa.com/search and check which one of the four sites you want to search and enter what you want to find in the search block.
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Each month I describe and link my new Health Central articles here. But you can also use a blog reader to keep up with my articles more quickly. I use Bloglines, as I describe in my article, “Reading Health Blogs.”
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Archives: I now send out Diabetes Update once a month.
