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To optimise blood sugar control, the diet diabetics eats is very important but the same can be said about when food is eaten too. A ‘little and often’ approach therefore seems to be a good solution. Meaning breakfast, lunch and dinner should be taken with one or two healthy snacks, like nuts, between meals.

With the latest study, UK researchers from Newcastle University tested what is known as the ‘second meal effect’. The ‘second meal effect’ is the effect a meal has on the blood sugar control after it has been eaten.


Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism: the body is not able to use sugars effectively, and glucose builds up in the blood. These high levels of blood glucose cause many of the complications we associate with diabetes. The primary underlying factors here will be some resistance to the hormone insulin (insulin not working as it should) and/or inadequate insulin secretion as a result of an ‘exhausted’ pancreas.


According to the latest research findings, Pycnogenol may reduce blood pressure and the use of blood pressure medication among diabetics. Blood pressure control was achieved in 58 per cent of study participants, and a halving of the use of medication among 48 participants randomly assigned to daily supplements of the pine bark extract, Pycnogenol, or placebo for 12 weeks.


Just last year a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analysis linked Avandia to a 43 percent higher risk of heart attack




If you believe youre at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, get out your shopping list and add these items: leafy green vegetables, avocados, nuts and whole grains.


Little did an HSI member named Howard know that his simple suggestion might be a huge and important health tip for diabetics both type 1 and type 2.


Let's start with the bottom line: There are no healthy choices when it comes to fizzy or soft drinks. You probably heard about the recent study that found a link between soft drinks and increased heart disease risk. Well, that's just the surface. Look a little closer and you'll see the true risk is even worse. Worse than heart disease? Yes, even worse than heart disease, because heart disease is just part of the deal.


Here's a disturbing statistic: About 70 per cent of all diabetes patients will eventually succumb to heart disease. So how would you describe a diabetes drug that increases cardiovascular risk? One word: Unacceptable. That was the word Dr. Graham a drug safety scientist, and a rare ray of light in the dark hole otherwise known as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used to describe Avandia when he appeared before an FDA panel last week.


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