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New research from the Yale School of Medicine has found that the size of the mitochondria in certain brain cells plays a role in the regulation of blood glucose levels. The management of blood sugar levels is critical for those with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as levels that are too high or too ...click here to read more

Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have developed new tools to help doctors predict the 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The team has created a set of risk charts specific to 182 countries that can help assess the future risk of cardiovascular disease events, including heart attack and stroke. These ...click here to read more

Higher dementia risk is linked to higher blood sugar levels, even among people with no diabetes. In the study, blood sugar levels averaged over a five-year period were associated with greater risks of developing dementia in over 2,000 older adults over 65. Patients without diabetes had an 18 percent higher risk of dementia if their ...click here to read more

Prostate cancer risk in men increases with high blood pressure, blood sugar, and body mass index. Researchers looked at 289,866 men enrolled in a study called the Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer Project. With the average follow-up time of 12 years, 6,673 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 961 died from the disease. Men with ...click here to read more

Low testosterone raises the risk of type 2 diabetes in men as testosterone helps regulate blood sugar levels. The researchers found that testosterone triggers essential signaling mechanisms in islets, which are clusters of cells within the pancreas producing insulin. Senior author Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis said, “We have found the cause — and a potential treatment ...click here to read more

If you have type 2 diabetes, then eating several small meals a day to maintain stable blood sugar and lose weight may actually be false. Although many people stick with that eating plan, it has shown to pose more harm than good to type 2 diabetics. Two large meals each day may be better for ...click here to read more

Gradually curbing sugar levels in beverages could be an effective means in combating obesity according to new findings. Researchers calculated what would occur if sugar was reduced in common sugary beverages by 40 percent in the U.K. over the course of five years without replacing them with artificial sweeteners. They estimated that reducing sugar in ...click here to read more

Higher insulin dose in type 2 diabetes is not a risk factor for cardiovascular death, according to new research. The research comes from analyzing a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored double-blind, randomized clinical trial, which revealed that diabetics who underwent intensive therapy had higher mortality rates. The reason for the results was unclear, but ...click here to read more

New findings suggest that the effects of melatonin supplements in individuals with a specific gene mutation may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The findings come from researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Murcia in Spain. Researchers say melatonin supplements taken prior to mealtime in those with the ...click here to read more

Blood sugar is sugar found in the bloodstream which gets transported throughout the body as a means to feed cells and make energy. The human body naturally regulates blood sugar levels, but in a person with insulin resistance or diabetes, blood sugar can spike or take dangerously low dips. Typically, when we eat food the ...click here to read more

There are a number of treatments for diabetes including diet, and insulin therapy; however, new research has uncovered a type-2 diabetes treatment involving a way to lower blood sugar using the liver. A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis knew that some treatments for type-2 diabetes make the body ...click here to read more

Are you feeling shaky and weak? Nervous and sweating for no apparent reason? It could be hypoglycemia – low blood sugar – a symptom, just like fever, that signals something is wrong with your health. When it comes to the early signs of hypoglycemia, and what causes hypoglycemia, diabetics already have an understanding of the ...click here to read more

People at risk for diabetes have been told by doctors for years that engaging in a regular exercise program can be a very helpful strategy for naturally stabilizing blood sugar levels. Typically, patients are told that they require at least forty-five minutes of moderately strenuous activity each day in order to see beneficial results. To ...click here to read more

Sugar is a big problem, and that news isn’t a shock to anyone. Some might say it is actually an epidemic. After all, sugar appears in nearly all foods, some that you would expect, such as soda pop, jams and spreads and breakfast cereals, but some that you wouldn’t expect, such as salad dressing soup ...click here to read more