Archive for the ‘Diabetes and Diet’ Category
Mediterranean Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet for Diabetes Management
GREAT NEWS, ESPECIALLY FOR TYPE 2 DIABETICS. Eating the Mediterranean Diet way – which includes eating balanced, delicious meals and avoiding processed foods – reaps great rewards and may result in avoidance of medication.
Diabetes and Diet … Everyone Should Eat Like This
The author of the famous diabetes book Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies talks about prevention and management of diabetes through diet and lifestyle … while making a delicious diabetic recipe.
Cinnamon And Diabetes Onset Symptoms
Recently, a surprising link was established between using cinnamon and the prevention of some diabetes symptoms. It has commonly been known that cinnamon helps with energy. Now it would seem that cinnamon can be a low cost addition to help strengthen a diabetes regimen. Funded by the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation, or DAREF, Dr. Richard Anderson performed a study at the United States Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center to examine possible useful effects of cinnamon in diabetes. Mr. Anderson was able to actually isolate the compound in cinnamon that is responsible for some of the positive aspects of cinnamon for diabetics.
The compound which feature specific Type-A polymers, was found to effectively lower blood sugar in diabetics. Additionally, Type-A polymers were discovered to decrease a patient's total cholesterol by up to 26 percent. Low density lipoproteins, commonly known as the bad cholesterol, were lowered 10 to 24 percent by the intake of the polymers, while triglycerides were decreased by 23 to 30 percent.
