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ICEMAN and the blood glucose benefits of keeping cool. Studies by endocrinologist Dr Paul Lee from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have shown that people with plentiful brown fat stores tend to be lean and have low blood glucose levels. His recent ICEMAN study in Diabetes demonstrates that ambient temperatures can influence the growth …
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Preventing diabetes with diet and exercise brings healthy heart benefits. People with type 2 diabetes have more than twice the risk of death from heart disease than people of a similar age without diabetes. Many studies have shown that diet and exercise can prevent pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes. However, there hasn’t been any high-quality, randomized …
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Eat to beat cholesterol with low GI legumes – beans, peas and lentils. They aren’t labelled “cholesterol-fighters” like oats, barley or nuts, but eating just one serving of legumes such as beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas a day can help reduce “bad cholesterol” according to the findings of a meta-analysis published in the Canadian Medical …
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Breast cancer survivors more likely to develop diabetes, and should be screened more closely. A large population study in Diabetologia shows that post-menopausal women who are breast cancer survivors are more likely to develop diabetes than women without breast cancer. Dr Lorraine Lipscombe and colleagues compared the incidence of diabetes among women aged 55 years …
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Diabetes: We are in it together. Living in a household implies sharing duties and responsibilities but it could also imply sharing your diabetes. A research team from the McGill University Health Centre has shown, through combined analyses of several studies, evidence that spousal diabetes is a diabetes risk factor. These findings, in BMC Medicine, have …
News and Reviews
Soft drinks: making the healthy choice the cheaper choice. Prof. Jack Winkler and his co-authors suggest a new strategy for healthy living in The Grocer which sets out the economics (costs of production, margins and profits) that show it is possible to sell healthier versions of mass market foods and beverages at lower prices than …
News and Reviews
The naturally low GI spud story. Everyone loves potatoes but they are often very high GI and a problem when managing BGLs. Back in 2007, when Prof Jennie Brand-Miller and Dr Alan Barclay saw the evidence mounting that it is the potato variety that effects glycemic impact not the cooking method, they sat down with …
News and Reviews
Low GI diet in pregnancy reduces risk of excess weight gain Researchers in Ireland have found that giving women advice on a healthy low GI diet early in pregnancy can reduce the risk of excess weight gain and improve nutrition. Compared to women who received usual maternal care, those who were educated on a low …
Nicole’s Taste of Health
It’s a date! A friend brought along fresh dates to snack on the other evening and said they were as good as chocolate – high praise indeed. They were fabulous and had come all the way from California; my friend believes they grow the best she’s found. Food miles aside, I had to agree with …
In the News
Scapegoats, saints, and saturated fats: old mistakes in new directions. A recent commentary piece in the British Medical Journal suggests that saturated fat is not really so bad after all. Is the author right? Is it time to absolve saturated fat? Not at all says Dr David Katz pointing out that it was never time …
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