Heart Disease Infographic
Those who consume alcohol moderately (approximately 1 drink daily or less) are 14-25% more unlikely to develop heart disease
New DietSensor™ App Declares War on Diabetes and Obesity
New DietSensor™ App Declares War on Diabetes and Obesity Company Ramps Up Opening Offices in Los Angeles and New York to Support Innovative New Food Application Set to Launch in the Summer LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 6, 2016 — DietSensor™ the CES award-winning innovator of food and nutritional applications that fight diabetes and […]
How to Avoid Diabetic Complications
Long term diabetic complications are the result of one or more parts of your body becoming damaged as a result of diabetes.
Long term complications need not be inevitable and research indicates that it is possible to minimise complications or avoid or prevent them altogether.
8 Stats That Will Make You Seriously Rethink Diabetes
Diabetes occurs when the body doesn’t produce or properly use insulin, a hormone in the body responsible for creating glucose. Glucose, in turn, is the body’s blood sugar, which is needed for immediate energy as well as storage of energy in the muscles and fat cells for later use. While Type 1 diabetes, which is usually diagnosed in childhood, is not yet preventable, Type 2 may be avoided with the right health behaviors. DietSensor shows you how.
How safe is fructose for persons with or without diabetes?
In this issue of the journal, Livesey and Taylor (1) present a meta-analysis of clinical trials evaluating the effects of fructose intake. They concluded that fructose is safe at doses of <90 g/d and that it may have the added benefit of lowering concentrations of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). This meta-analysis is difficult to interpret, because it involves randomized and nonrandomized studies of differing designs, mixed populations (diabetic and non diabetic lean and obese), different control diets (including some sucrose-based diets that contained fructose), different study durations, and limited endpoints; it also represents an analysis by an industry-sponsored group of a highly selected list of studies
What Parents Should Know About Type 1 Diabetes
A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is life-changing for a child–and his or her parents. “That means that affected children and their parents must be vigilant about monitoring their condition–and because there is no cure, this type of maintenance will last a lifetime,” says Maureen Villasenor, MD, a board-certified pediatrician at St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group. « Healthy diet and exercise, blood sugar monitoring and insulin treatments are all part of that. »
