Among 38,000 adults followed a decade, those eating the most vitamin K were about 20 percent less likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with a stronger link for K2 from meat, cheese and eggs. Mercola suggests the vitamin lowers inflammation and improves insulin use.
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Diabetes
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes, blood sugar and diet.
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Food
Eating eggs not linked to diabetes
Over 11 years, 313 of 3,898 older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study developed type 2 diabetes, and researchers found no link to egg consumption. The article notes earlier studies, including ones by the same authors, pointed the other way.
Diabetes
Brown rice eaters less like to have type 2 diabetes
Pooled data from about 197,000 US adults found those eating five or more servings of white rice a week had a 17 percent higher diabetes risk, while two or more servings of brown rice weekly was tied to an 11 percent lower risk. Rice supplied under 2 percent of subjects' calories.
Diabetes
Could brown rice protect against type 2 diabetes
Following about 197,000 doctors and nurses across three long-running studies, Harvard researchers reported that five or more weekly servings of white rice carried 17 percent higher type 2 diabetes risk, while two or more servings of brown rice carried 11 percent lower risk.
Disease
Severe diabetes means higher cancer risk
German Cancer Research Center scientists compared 125,126 Swedes hospitalized for type 2 diabetes between 1964 and 2007 with the general population, and found pancreatic and liver cancer risks raised about sixfold and fourfold. Prostate cancer and melanoma risks ran lower.
Food
Processed meat linked to elevated risk of heart disease, diabetes
A Harvard meta-analysis in Circulation linked each 50 grams of processed meat eaten daily, about one hot dog, with 42 percent higher heart disease risk and 19 percent higher diabetes risk. Unprocessed meats showed no such link, and researchers suspect the salt and nitrate preservatives.
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L-Carnitine helps type 2 diabetes
In a small Italian study, 16 patients with newly diagnosed impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes followed a low-calorie diet for 10 days. Both groups improved glucose tolerance, but only those also taking 2 grams of L-carnitine twice daily saw plasma insulin fall significantly.
Disease
5 Reasons Why Type One Diabetes is on the Rise
A 2009 Lancet study projected that new type 1 diabetes cases in children could double within a decade. Mercola runs through five proposed explanations: faster growth, less sun, too little germ exposure, early cow's milk formula, and pollutants.
Disease
Quick Fact: 17.5% of Adult American Indian/Alaska Natives Suffer Diabetes
CDC survey data for 2004-2008 show 7.6 percent of US adults reported ever being told they had diabetes, with American Indian/Alaska Natives highest at 17.5 percent, followed by blacks at 11.8 and Hispanics at 10.6, against 8.0 percent of Asians and 6.6 percent of whites.
Diet
Diet and Exercise Beat Drugs for Diabetes Heart Risks
Four studies in the New England Journal of Medicine found no heart benefit for diabetics from lowering systolic pressure with antihypertensives, from adding an HDL-raising drug, or from two blood sugar drugs. Mercola argues weight loss, activity and nutrition matter more.
Disease
Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity in the U.S.
CDC applied Bayesian multilevel models to estimate diabetes and obesity prevalence in all 3,141 U.S. counties for 2007. The estimates show high rates in West Virginia, Appalachian Tennessee and Kentucky, the Mississippi Delta and a belt across the South.
Nutrition
Selenium linked to lower risk of diabetes
Following 1,262 French adults for nine years, researchers report in Nutrition & Metabolism that older men in the top third of blood selenium were 50 percent less likely to develop impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes. No benefit showed in women, and high doses can cause poisoning.
Diabetes
Soy products beat drugs for type 2 diabetes prevention?
A five-year trial in more than 8,300 overweight adults found nateglinide prevented neither diabetes nor cardiovascular events, while valsartan modestly cut new diabetes without reducing cardiovascular risk. A Japanese cohort study separately tied soy and isoflavone intake to lower diabetes risk.
Diabetes
Avandia raises heart risk, what you can eat to help diabetes
A Senate committee report says GlaxoSmithKline knew for years that its diabetes drug Avandia carried a significantly higher heart attack risk and failed to warn patients. Nutrition notes for diabetes patients follow, covering biotin, bitter melon and chromium supplements.
Drug
Studies May Lead to Better Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
Eastern Virginia Medical School researchers found that deleting the gene for the 12-LO enzyme prevents type 1 diabetes in mice, pointing to a possible way to protect insulin-producing beta cells. A separate Salk Institute study tied the stress hormone CRF to beta cell growth in animals.
Drug
Artificial Pancreas Aids Type 1 Diabetes Patients
Cambridge researchers tested an artificial pancreas that reads glucose in real time and pumps insulin overnight, in 17 patients aged 5 to 18 across 54 hospital nights. It held blood sugar normal 60% of the time versus 40% for standard pumps, and halved time spent in mild hypoglycemia.
Diabetes
Micronutrients may help diabetes patients
In diabetic mice, a combination of selenium, vitamin E, vanadium and chromium improved disordered glucose metabolism and protected pancreatic islet beta-cells, apparently by shifting Th1 and Th2 cytokine expression, Jilin University researchers report.
Disease
Obstructive sleep apnea may worsen diabetes
University of Chicago researchers studied 60 type 2 diabetes patients and found severe obstructive sleep apnea went with poor blood sugar control: mild, moderate and severe apnea came with HbA1C increases of 49, 93 and 269 percent. Which condition drives the other is unclear.
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