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Insulin Resistance

Food

Dietary fructose linked to metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus

Feeding 29 adult male rhesus monkeys a diet with 30% of energy from fructose for a year left all of them with metabolic syndrome features including insulin resistance, and four, or 15%, developed type 2 diabetes. The researchers note most Americans get under 25% of energy from fructose.

Diabetes

Got insulin resistance? Vitamin d supplements can help

In a six-month randomized trial of 81 South Asian women with insulin resistance, 4,000 IU of vitamin D a day raised average blood levels from 21 to 75 nmol/L and improved insulin sensitivity, with benefit maximized above 80 nmol/L. Insulin secretion was unaffected.

Aug 14, 2011

Disease

New link found between obesity and insulin resistance (pr)

Joslin Diabetes Center scientists examined livers from obese people and found lower levels of proteins that regulate RNA splicing. That shift changes the function of other proteins and drives excess liver fat, a major contributor to insulin resistance. The work appears in Cell Metabolism.

Aug 6, 2011

Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus (Type 2) linked to Alzheimer's disease

Researchers followed 135 Japanese adults for 10 to 15 years and examined their brains after death: Alzheimer's plaques appeared in 72 percent of those with insulin resistance versus 62 percent without. No link emerged with tangles, and the lead author says cause is unproven.

Aug 26, 2010

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