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Diabetes Snacks, Treats, and Easy Eats: 130 Recipes You’ll Make Again and Again, by Barbara Grunes and R.D. Linda R. Yoakam, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher Agate.

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Cuttin' the diabetic outta obese people...

Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabetics
31 Mar.`14 WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good.

Doctors on Monday gave longer results from a landmark study showing that stomach-reducing operations are better than medications for treating "diabesity," the deadly duo of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Millions of Americans have this and can't make enough insulin or use what they do make to process food. Many experts were skeptical that the benefits seen after a year would last. Now, three-year results show an even greater advantage for surgery. Blood-sugar levels were normal in 38 percent and 25 percent of two groups given surgery, but in only 5 percent of those treated with medications.

The results are "quite remarkable" and could revolutionize care, said one independent expert, Dr. Robert Siegel, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "No one dreamed, at least I didn't," that obesity surgery could have such broad effects long before it caused patients to lose weight, he said. Some patients were able to stop using insulin a few days after surgery. At three years, "more than 90 percent of the surgical patients required no insulin," and nearly half had needed it at the start of the study, said its leader, Dr. Philip Schauer of the Cleveland Clinic. In contrast, insulin use rose in the medication group, from 52 percent at the start to 55 percent at three years.

The results were reported Monday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Washington. They also were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors are reluctant to call surgery a possible cure because they can't guarantee diabetes won't come back. But some patients, like Heather Britton, have passed the five-year mark when some experts consider cure or prolonged remission a possibility. Before the study, she was taking drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol; she takes none now. "It's a miracle," said Britton, a 55-yeear-old computer programmer from suburban Cleveland. "It saved my life. I have no doubt that I would have had serious complications from my diabetes" because the disease killed her mother and grandmothers at a young age, she said.

About 26 million Americans have diabetes, and two-thirds of them are overweight or obese. Diabetes is a leading cause of heart disease, strokes, kidney failure, eye trouble and other problems. It's treated with various drugs and insulin, and doctors urge weight loss and exercise, but few people can drop enough pounds to make a difference. Bariatric surgery currently is mostly a last resort for very obese people who have failed less drastic ways to lose weight. It costs $15,000 to $25,000 and Medicare covers it for very obese people with diabetes. Gastric bypass is the most common type: Through "keyhole" surgery, doctors reduce the stomach to a small pouch and reconnect it to the small intestine. Another type is sleeve gastrectomy, in which the size of the stomach is reduced less drastically.

More http://news.yahoo.com/surgery-gives-long-term-help-obese-diabetics-135820679.html

 

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Granny always drinkin' coffee - dat's why she always up at night...

3-4 cups of coffee a day can keep diabetes risk at bay
Thursday 3rd December, 2015 - Much to coffee lovers' delight, a team of researchers has identified the coffee compounds that could help ward off the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day can decrease the diabetes risk, according to the scientists who have identified two compounds that contribute to this health benefit. Researchers say that this knowledge could someday help them develop new medications to better prevent and treat the disease. Patients with type 2 diabetes become resistant to insulin, a hormone that helps turn glucose from food into energy. To overcome this resistance, the pancreas makes more insulin, but eventually, it just can't make enough.

High blood glucose levels can cause health problems, such as blindness and nerve damage. Several genetic and life style risk factors have been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes, but drinking coffee has been shown to help prevent its onset. Soren Gregersen and colleagues tested the effects of different coffee substances in rat cell lines. Cafestol and caffeic acid both increased insulin secretion when glucose was added.

The team also found that cafestol increased glucose uptake in muscle cells, matching the levels of a currently prescribed antidiabetic drug. They say cafestol's dual benefits make it a good candidate for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, because coffee filters eliminate much of the cafestol in drip coffee, it is likely that other compounds also contribute to these health benefits. The study is reported in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. (ANI)

3-4 cups of coffee a day can keep diabetes risk at bay

 

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Fatty livers increase kids' risk of diabetes...

Fatty livers increase kids' risk of diabetes
August 1, 2016 – About seven million children in the U.S. have fatty livers, and nearly a third of those kids also have prediabetes or diabetes, according to a new study.

So-called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) “is one of the biggest risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes in children,” said Dr. Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, director of the Fatty Liver Clinic at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. “The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is approximately 1 in 2,500 in the general population, 1 in 200 in children with obesity, and 1 in 15 in children with NAFLD,” Schwimmer said. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can cause scarring in the liver and can lead to liver failure and the need for a transplant. It may be related to genetics, obesity and some medications. It can be treated but not cured.

In adults, NAFLD often coincides with abnormal sugar metabolism. People with NAFLD who have type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for a more severe form of liver disease called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which carries the highest risk for cirrhosis, end stage liver disease, and liver cancer. The researchers studied 675 kids under age 18 with NAFLD. The average body mass index (BMI) was 32, above the clinical cutoff for obesity of 30. (Body mass index, a measure of weight in relation to height, is calculated differently for children than for adults. An online calculator is here: Body Mass Index BMI (BMI) Percentile Calculator for Child and Teen | DNPAO | CDC.) Twenty-three percent of the kids with NAFLD had prediabetes and almost seven percent had type 2 diabetes.

Girls with NAFLD were five times as likely as boys to have type 2 diabetes. More than 40 percent of kids with type 2 diabetes also had NASH, compared to 34 percent of kids with prediabetes and 22 percent of those with normal blood sugar, the researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics. When the liver gets fatty, some of its metabolic pathways are progressively impaired, including insulin sensitivity, said Dr. Valerio Nobili, head of the Liver Research Unit at Bambino Gesu Childrens Hospital in Rome, Italy.

Nobili was not part of the new study. Currently, treatment for NAFLD involves optimizing lifestyle including nutrition, physical activity, and mental well-being, he said. Based on this study, kids with NAFLD should also have blood sugar tests and be monitored for progression of liver disease, diabetes and the consequences of both, he said. “Although children with NAFLD overall are typically boys, girls with NAFLD are more likely to have diabetes,” Schwimmer said. “Special attention should be given to children with the combination of type 2 diabetes and NASH, as they are at particularly high risk for premature morbidity and mortality.”

Fatty livers increase kids' risk of diabetes

 

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Granny always drinkin' coffee - dat's why she always up at night...

3-4 cups of coffee a day can keep diabetes risk at bay
Thursday 3rd December, 2015 - Much to coffee lovers' delight, a team of researchers has identified the coffee compounds that could help ward off the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day can decrease the diabetes risk, according to the scientists who have identified two compounds that contribute to this health benefit. Researchers say that this knowledge could someday help them develop new medications to better prevent and treat the disease. Patients with type 2 diabetes become resistant to insulin, a hormone that helps turn glucose from food into energy. To overcome this resistance, the pancreas makes more insulin, but eventually, it just can't make enough.

High blood glucose levels can cause health problems, such as blindness and nerve damage. Several genetic and life style risk factors have been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes, but drinking coffee has been shown to help prevent its onset. Soren Gregersen and colleagues tested the effects of different coffee substances in rat cell lines. Cafestol and caffeic acid both increased insulin secretion when glucose was added.

The team also found that cafestol increased glucose uptake in muscle cells, matching the levels of a currently prescribed antidiabetic drug. They say cafestol's dual benefits make it a good candidate for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, because coffee filters eliminate much of the cafestol in drip coffee, it is likely that other compounds also contribute to these health benefits. The study is reported in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. (ANI)

3-4 cups of coffee a day can keep diabetes risk at bay

I have found that 2 cups of coffee in the morning is perfect.

1 teaspoon sugar and up to half the volume of milk to soften the acid on your stomach works well.

But no more coffee after that or else you are too buzzed all day long.

Iced tea with lunch, and hot tea in the afternoon round out the caffeine daily dose.

 

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I have found that popcorn is the best snack between meals.

Saltine crackers are good too.

Ritz crackers are not bad either.

Sugary snacks are NOT good.

Candy is definitely NOT good.

Iced tea is my drink with snacks during the day.

Soda pop is NOT good for you.

Clear club soda is not bad however.