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Yellow Pea Flour May Help Diabetes

Oct. 28, 2009 -- Yellow pea flour may help prevent and manage type 2 diabetes by replacing whole wheat flour as an ingredient in creating low glycemic index foods. A new study suggests that yellow pea flour may be an inexpensive substitute for wheat flour to create healthier, low glycemic index vers
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Diet Beats Drugs for Diabetes Prevention

Oct. 28, 2009 -- Lifestyle changes resulting in long-term weight loss of just a few pounds proved to be roughly twice as effective as drug treatment for preventing type 2 diabetes in an ongoing government-sponsored trial. Researchers followed almost 3,000 high-risk patients for a decade in one of th
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Diabetes on the Rise in U.S.

Oct. 28, 2009 -- Diabetes cases are rising rapidly in the U.S., with the disease afflicting 11.3% of American adults in the third quarter of 2009, according to a new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey. That's an increase from 10.4% in the first quarter of last year. That means about 26 millio
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Diabetes and Weight Loss: The Right Path

Diabetes and weight loss: They're the yin and yang of optimal health. There's no question about it: If you're overweight and have type 2 diabetes, dropping pounds lowers your blood sugar, improves your health, and helps you feel better. But before you start a weight loss plan, it's important to work
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7 Healthy Diabetic Desserts for Your Diabetes Diet

Chocolate mousse pies, parfaits, luscious cakes topped with fruit. If you have diabetes, you'll have to bid farewell to such desserts, right? Wrong, says Lara Rondinelli, RD, CDE, diabetes center coordinator at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. ''At diagnosis, people think that their life's
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Red Wine Chemical May One Day Treat Diabetes

Oct. 9, 2009 -- The much touted compound resveratrol shows some promise as a future treatment for type 2 diabetes, but drinking wine or taking resveratrol supplements isn’t likely to do diabetic people much good, researchers say. Resveratrol, found in red wine, was found to lower blood sugar levels
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Diabetes May Affect Women's Heart Rhythm

Sept. 28, 2009 -- Women with diabetes may be 26% more likely than other women to develop a heart rhythm problem called atrial fibrillation. Researchers report that news in the October edition of Diabetes Care. Data came from more than 34,000 adults who got their health care through Kaiser Permanente
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Januvia, Janumet to Note Pancreatitis Cases

Sept. 25, 2009 -- The FDA wants the maker of the type 2 diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet to change the prescribing information to note reports of acute pancreatitis, a potentially life-threatening pancreas problem. The FDA today announced that it has gotten reports of 88 people taking those drugs
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New Sign of Diabetes Risk

Sept. 16, 2009 - A new blood test strongly predicts risk of type 2 diabetes. The test looks at sex hormone-binding globulin or SHBG. Once considered merely a way for the body to store extra sex hormones, SHBG now appears to be a player in a number of body functions. Protection against type 2 diabete
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Mediterranean Diet Helps Control Diabetes

Aug. 31, 2009 -- Eating a Mediterranean-style diet may help people with type 2 diabetes keep their disease under control without drugs better than following a typical low-fat diet. A new study from Italy shows that people with type 2 diabetes who ate a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables and whole
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