A review by Amanda Sullivan, posted on St. Catherine University's website, found that eating one or more servings of high fructose corn syrup a day is associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome in young and middle-aged women. Five of six studies agreed.
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Diabetes
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes, blood sugar and diet.
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Food
Alcohol linked to diabetes - study
In a Swedish cohort, total alcohol intake and binge drinking raised the risk of pre-diabetes and diabetes in men while low intake lowered it in women. Reviewers noted the authors skipped their own finding that non-drinkers had the highest risk in nearly every comparison.
Diet
Very low calorie diet helps obese people with type 2 diabetes
Fourteen severely obese people with type 2 diabetes spent a week on a very low calorie diet, and their glucose disposal rose from 59 to 75.5 ml/min/m2 alongside lower fasting glucose and triglycerides. The authors credit better beta cell function, not insulin sensitivity.
Vitamins
Vitamin D deficiency boosts risk of type 2 diabetes in pre-diabetes people
In a Swedish study of 2,378 adults, men in the highest quartile of 25(OH)D had lower odds of developing type 2 diabetes, an effect confined to those with prediabetes. In both sexes, progression from prediabetes to diabetes fell about 25 percent per 10 nmol/L increase.
Diabetes
Eating rice boosts diabetes type 2 risk - Study
Harvard researchers pooled four studies covering more than 352,000 people in China, Japan, the U.S. and Australia, of whom nearly 13,400 developed type 2 diabetes. Those eating the most white rice were 1.5 times likelier to have diabetes than those eating the least.
Food
Processed meat like SPAM linked to high diabetes risk- study
In the Strong Heart Family Study of American Indians followed five years, those eating the most processed meat faced 63 percent higher diabetes risk, and the heaviest SPAM eaters double the risk. Unprocessed red meat showed no link, and results may not carry to other populations.
Diabetes
Calorie restriction helps severely obese diabetics
In a study from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, seven days of a 400-calorie diet lowered fasting glucose and triglycerides in severely obese type 2 diabetes patients and improved both phases of insulin secretion, with 3.22% weight loss and no gain in insulin sensitivity.
Diet
Functional foods and prevention of diabetes - book chapter summary
A chapter in Functional Foods: concept to product argues lifestyle shapes both forms of diabetes. Cow's milk, cereals, potatoes and fruit given very early, plus nitrates and nitrites, may raise type 1 risk, while vitamins D and E and n-3 fats may protect. Obesity and inactivity dominate type 2.
Environment
Does Air Pollution Increase Risk of Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes?
Among black women in Los Angeles followed from 1995 to 2005, Boston University researchers found a 10-ug/m3 rise in fine particulate matter was associated with 48 percent higher hypertension risk and 63 percent higher diabetes risk, with smaller rises tied to nitrogen oxides.
Diabetes
Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes in Native Americans - studies
Researchers followed more than 2,000 Native Americans who were free of diabetes and found those eating processed meat such as sausage and bacon were more likely to develop diabetes over five years. The association was particularly strong with Spam.
Drug
Breaking cancer news: Insulin therapy ups cancer risk
A University of Maryland dissertation analyzing 230,330 UK patients on antidiabetic therapy found insulin used alone associated with 88 percent higher pancreatic cancer risk, rising to 133 percent alongside oral agents. High HbA1c was tied to a 39 percent increase.
Food
Processed meat linked to diabetes type 2 - studies
In the Strong Heart Family Study, American Indians with the highest processed meat intake were 63% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes over five years than those with the lowest, while unprocessed red meat showed no link, unlike in earlier Harvard findings.
Vitamins
Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus - study
Analyzing 12,263 Koreans from a 2008-2009 national survey, researchers found people with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D below 25 nmol/L were 76% more likely to have type 2 diabetes than those above 75 nmol/L, with 21% and 34% increases at middle levels.
Phytochemicals
Got type 2 diabetes mellitus? Eat lots of dietary fiber!
A meta-analysis of 15 randomized trials found that dietary fiber lowered fasting blood glucose by 0.85 mmol/L and HbA1c by 0.26 percent compared with placebo in people with type 2 diabetes, leading the authors to recommend more fiber for these patients.
Vitamins
Low prenatal vitamin D linked to high risk for type 1 diabetes in children
Norwegian researchers compared 109 women whose children developed type 1 diabetes before age 15 with 219 control mothers, and found those in the lowest quartile of serum vitamin D more than twice as likely to have an affected child. They call for a randomized trial.
Vitamins
Vitamin C helps diabetes patients
A 12-week double-blind trial of 70 type 2 diabetes patients in India found that those adding vitamin C to metformin ended with higher plasma ascorbic acid and better fasting glucose, post-meal glucose and HbA1c than patients on the drug alone.
Food
Here is why drinking coffee cuts type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Testing caffeine, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid and dihydrocaffeic acid separately, researchers found each inhibited formation of the toxic hIAPP amyloids thought to raise type 2 diabetes risk. Caffeic acid proved most potent and caffeine least.
Drug
Statins Boost Diabetes Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Women's Health Initiative data on 153,840 postmenopausal women showed those taking statins at baseline were 71 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, or 48 percent after adjusting for age, race and body mass index. Researchers say prescribing guidelines should not change.
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