Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Forks Over Knives Trailer
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The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Veggies May Protect Women from Diabetes
Diabetes is still on the rise. New numbers confirm that from 2005 to 2007 the total prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. increased by 13.5 percent.
This means that now 8 percent of the total population has diabetes (23.6 million children and adults). In 2007, 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 and older.
Amidst the bad news of these surging numbers, there's good news about prevention from researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. They found that green leafy vegetables may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in women.
For every additional serving of green leafy vegetables a woman eats per day, there was a 9 percent reduction in risk. (Men, feel free to go ahead and up your intake of veggies and fruits, too, even if this study wasn't about you.)
This isn't the first study to show a relationship between a reduction in type 2 diabetes and the eating of more vegetables. Reasons for this reduction in risk may be that vegetables are low in calories and fat and high in antioxidants, fiber, and a variety of vitamins and minerals — all things definitely not associated with an increased risk of diabetes.
The take-home message here should be simply to include vegetables every day in your meals, and then some. Think about planning your meals around what vegetable you are having (in season, I hope) and then adding other foods. When you sit down to eat, vegetables should be covering half your plate.
Whether those vegetables are fresh, frozen, or canned, they are an important part of your diet and may reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes.
Source: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/nutrition/13951/veggies-may-protect-women-from-diabetes/
This means that now 8 percent of the total population has diabetes (23.6 million children and adults). In 2007, 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 and older.
Amidst the bad news of these surging numbers, there's good news about prevention from researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. They found that green leafy vegetables may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in women.
For every additional serving of green leafy vegetables a woman eats per day, there was a 9 percent reduction in risk. (Men, feel free to go ahead and up your intake of veggies and fruits, too, even if this study wasn't about you.)
This isn't the first study to show a relationship between a reduction in type 2 diabetes and the eating of more vegetables. Reasons for this reduction in risk may be that vegetables are low in calories and fat and high in antioxidants, fiber, and a variety of vitamins and minerals — all things definitely not associated with an increased risk of diabetes.
The take-home message here should be simply to include vegetables every day in your meals, and then some. Think about planning your meals around what vegetable you are having (in season, I hope) and then adding other foods. When you sit down to eat, vegetables should be covering half your plate.
Whether those vegetables are fresh, frozen, or canned, they are an important part of your diet and may reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes.
Source: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/nutrition/13951/veggies-may-protect-women-from-diabetes/
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Scientists make weight loss claim
Australian scientists believe they may have discovered how to help people lose weight without cutting back on food.
If humans react like mice, the find could help develop fat-burning drugs
Researchers in Melbourne found that by manipulating fat cells in mice they were able to speed up metabolism.
After removing a particular enzyme, scientists found the mice were able to eat the same amount as others but burn more calories and gain less weight.
The breakthrough could pave the way for fat-burning drugs and also help to combat diabetes.
The research found that mice in which the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) had been removed were, on average, 20% lighter than normal mice and had up to 60% less body fat.
Because of their faster metabolisms, it also appeared they had less chance of developing diabetes because they processed sugar more quickly.
Drugs which impair the action of ACE in humans already exist, and are used to combat high blood pressure.
The latest research could help the development of weight loss pills.
The question is whether they will have the same slimming effect on people as they have done on mice.
Found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7372495.stm
Researchers in Melbourne found that by manipulating fat cells in mice they were able to speed up metabolism.
After removing a particular enzyme, scientists found the mice were able to eat the same amount as others but burn more calories and gain less weight.
The breakthrough could pave the way for fat-burning drugs and also help to combat diabetes.
The research found that mice in which the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) had been removed were, on average, 20% lighter than normal mice and had up to 60% less body fat.
Because of their faster metabolisms, it also appeared they had less chance of developing diabetes because they processed sugar more quickly.
Drugs which impair the action of ACE in humans already exist, and are used to combat high blood pressure.
The latest research could help the development of weight loss pills.
The question is whether they will have the same slimming effect on people as they have done on mice.
Found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7372495.stm
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