Diabetes Talkfest live chat with stem cell researcher

Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Subject Onset, Research, Events, Opinion, Services, Allie Beatty, Support, Personalities Juan Domí nguez-Bendala, Ph.D., is Director of Stem Cell Operation for Translational Research at the Diabetes Evaluation Institute. Once again, thanks to Gina and Jon at Diabetes Talkfest - you'll have the opportunity to chat alive with Dr. Domí nguez-Bendala on August 23rd at 9pm Eastern Guideline Time. Dr. Domí nguez-Bendala is currently involved in several projects that spotlight on the use of embryonic stem cells to collect pancreatic islets, in the hopes that these newly developed cells could one date be transplanted into patients with type I diabetes.

Once upon a time, all diabetes was treated without insulin

Filed under: Type 2, Childhood, Diet, Research, Opinion, Allie Beatty, Support Prior to the advent of insulin, in the 1920's, diabetes was treated with a low-carbohydrate diet. These diets were aimed at controlling sugar in the urine, a stark contrast to the now ADA suggested diet of low-fat and high-carbohydrate. In detail the diet recommended by Dr. Elliot Joslin consisted of environing 20% protein, 75% fat and 5% from carbohydrates. Well in the early century - this diet seemed to ownership most diabetics on circuit just useful without the magic pills available today. It is also remarkable that the secondary complications and epidemic aggrandizement of diabetes was not a hot topic, either.

Adiponectin protects obese mice from diabetes

Filed under: Type 2, Childhood, Workman Onset, Diet, Lifestyle, Research, Exercise How come type 2 diabetes does not change all obese people? A study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation may analyze why. Adiponectin is a hormone that controls insulin sensitivity. Leptin is a hormone which lessens appetite. Too yet adiponectin allows mice to store excess calories in fat tissue instead of in augmented dangerous areas -- the liver, heart or muscle tissue -- where additional fat may lead to inflammation, diabetes and love disease. Unfortunately adiponectin levels decline as people get fatter. So researchers wondered "what if overeating mice had aerial levels of adiponectin?

Soup to Nuts

Filed under: Diet, Drugs, Research Drug companies are authentic bully at creation it seem conforming fascinating a positive medication or supplement will be a panacea for just about everything that ails you. All the more at the objective of their commercials, when they're rattling off a solid host of potential unwanted side effects, the person on-screen is much smiling, riding or a horse, swinging on a swing in slow-motion, or something blameless as cheery. And while there are multiplied sensational drugs out there that do facilitate body politic a extensive deal, there are also bounteous out there that are no more than viper oils. Case in point, I just came across this supposed interview (it looks benevolent of staged to me) on YouTube, featuring a physician who claims that type 2 and type 1 diabetes can be miraculously cured by drinking alkaline water.

The water cure

Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Male Onset, Diet, Products, Allie Beatty, Support It's free, it covers 70% of the Earth's surface, and it's a remedy for all living things. So why act physicians rarely advertise the healing properties of water? Every plant needs it to survive. Every living baggage on Earth requires drench - much the cacti of the Sahara Desert. We are no different. Mike Adams, of Account Target, was one of the last family to interview the tardy Dr. Batmanghelidj. The matters he learned about "The Curative Competency of Water" left him in awe. The dialogue revealed which ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration, why the habitual population is chronically dehydrated and henceforth labelled diseased, what ingredients deplete the body's moisten reserves, why craving is not a dependable indicator of dehydration, the dynamics of cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance, how dehydration impairs mental functioning and potentially causes depression, in addition to recognizing signs that your item is starting to dehydrate.

Lemonade for sale, 25c a cup!

Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Diet, Research, Fundraisers The Rusing family of Tucson, Arizona, bound a chiefly advantageous lemonade stand. The stand began as a custom to keep the kids occupied, but turned into a bit of a method maker. It's been so successful, in fact, that it's at once in the running for the title of Cool Lemonade Stand in America. Yes! There is such a thing. Cute, huh? The Rusings donate the release from the stand to diabetes research. The stand is named "The Mighty Quinns" for Quinn Rusing. Quinn, who is four-years-old, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age three. He helps run the lemonade stand, along with mom, Carolyn, and six-year-old look-alike sisters, Cali and Olivia.

Sugary hazard: high fructose corn syrup may raise diabetes risk

Filed under: Type 2, Diet, Research, Products A abundance of bourgeois I cognize avoid foods that folder high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as an ingredient. Apart from the calories they add to foods, there's a growing creed that lab-devised products compatible HFCS are simply unnatural and may be harmful. Wikipedia has an captivating article on the origins and controversy surrounding HFCS, if you necessity to learn more. Not surprisingly, the food production has always defended HFCS against claims that it is harmful. But here's the latest contradiction of that claim: a modern discover found that HFCS is "astonishingly" high in reactive carbonyls, which are anticipation to contribute to the development of diabetes.

Islet transplants like low-cal

Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Human race Onset, Diet, Research Back in 2000, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada transplanted islet cells in the livers of folks with type 1, familiar as the Edmonton Protocol. Each islet transplant required distinct cadaver donors. The transplants worked for awhile, on the contrary enclosing 80 percent of patients required insulin after a couple years. It was assumed the transplanted cells were rejected, however new check points to a new practicable culprit -- fat. Dr. Roger Unger and colleagues of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas performed the Edmonton Protocol in rats with type 1.

The corn's alright: industry group rejects HFCS findings

Filed under: Diet, Research, Opinion, Products Yesterday I posted on the latest indicator that flying fructose corn sirup is harmful and maybe still linked to diabetes risk. Naturally, the American Beverage Collection vigorously rejects the report. In the bag of balance, here's the opposite conversation courtesy of the ABA's website. "There is absolutely no rare link between soft drinks sweetened with formidable fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and diabetes, in children or adults. In fact, it is a stretch of the mind to link the laboratory findings of this unpublished in vitro scan with the circumstance of diabetes in humans." Ooh, "unpublished." Ouch. Nice veiled barb, there.

Is somebody planning to reverse diabetes with candy?

Filed under: Type 2, Person Onset, Diet, Research, Allie Beatty A recite reported in the ledger Nutrition found obese, diabetic mice whose diet was supplemented with an extract of cacao liquor demonstrated a significant reduction in blood sugar. Scientists examined if cacao beans might be considerate in preventing Type 2 diabetes. They supplemented the diets of obese, diabetic mice with cacao liquor for 3 weeks. The specific type of cacao liquor, called cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr), contains 72% polyphenols. They establish that blood sugar was reduced in conduct correlation with the dosage of CLPr. This interpret was funded by confectionary giant Mars, Inc.

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