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• Susan Boyle - Finals - Britains's Got Tallent

  2009 May 30

  This has absolutely nothing to do with type 2 diabetes. I usually try to stay very focused but I can not resist this time. On rare occasions a truly remarkable talent comes out of the crowd and this time it is Susan Boyle. Congratulation Susan. Reguardless of the final outcome you are the clear winner of the competion. I cannot understand how you came in second to a Mediocre dance troop. Susan, your's is an incredible talent. I wish you the best and if there is any justice in the world you will sing for the Queen and go on to a career of singing professionally. If you have not seen Susan in the finals, here it is.

• The Double Diabetes Epidemic

  2009 May 14

  The Double Diabetes Epidemic A growing number of people with type 1 diabetes also show signs of the insulin resistance characteristic of type 2. By Dennis Thompson, Jr. Medically reviewed by Christine Wilmsen Craig, MD An increasing number of diabetic patients are facing a new disease complication called double diabetes, the term used to describe having symptoms of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Researchers say they have strong evidence that double diabetes could be a growing phenomenon. Recent studies have found that as many as one in three newly diagnosed childhood diabetics now have both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Double Diabetes, Double Trouble Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs early in life, often in children. For unclear reasons, the body’s immune system begins attacking and destroying the beta cells in the pancreas needed produce the hormone insulin. Insulin is what ushers blood sugar (glucose) from the bloodstream into the cells to create energy. Without insulin, glucose levels in the bloodstream rise. Type 2 diabetes usually has a later onset. Because of a combination of poor diet, lack of exercise, and too much body fat, the cells of the body become resistant to the insulin the pancreas has been making. Glucose levels remain elevated: The pancreas tries to keep up with the added demand by producing more insulin, but over time burns itself out. Double diabetes occurs when a person with type 1 diabetes develops resistance to the insulin they are taking, insulin resistance being...

• Another warning about drugs for controlling type 2 diabetes

  2009 May 04

  From the beginning of this site we have been talking about diet being the best way to control ype 2 diabetes. Now there is another warning about a diabetic drug. The study is from UCLA.The study is partially funded by Merck, the maker of Januvia. Instead of pushing more bad drugs at the type 2 diabetic population, why are they not paying attention to the better ways to controll type 2 diabetes with diet. I think this is fairly obvious. There are not huge profits in teaching people how to maintain a healthy diet. UCLA Newsroom (http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/) > Health Sciences (http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/health-sciences.aspx) > News Releases (http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/news.aspx) Popular diabetes treatment could trigger pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer Drug's adverse effects negated when combined with older diabetes drug By Enrique Rivero | 4/30/2009 11:35:49 AM A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA researchers have found. In a study published in the online edition of the journal Diabetes, researchers from the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center at UCLA (http://www.lhirc.med.ucla.edu/) found that sitagliptin, sold in pill form as Januvia, caused abnormalities in the pancreas that are recognized as risk factors for pancreatitis and, with time, pancreatic cancer in humans. Januvia is marketed by Merck Co. Inc. Sitagliptin is a member of a new class of drugs that enhance the actions of the gut hormone known as glucagon-like peptide 1...

• Call for action to President Barack Obama.

  2009 Apr 13

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/ (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/) (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/) I am asking all who see this see this to also send a message from the same contact form. I am sure the web submissions are read by a staff member and President Obama may never see it unless there are several who also send a message. When you send yours please reference message from Toma Grubb Diabetic-diet-Secrets.com lets do a call for action for change we can believe in and echo Barack Obama's words, YES WE CAN. This is the message I sent: I am doing my part to help both the economy and the health care crisis in the explosive growth rate of type 2 diabetes and a cluster of other chronic diseases. It may sound a bit strange to link these two but there is a close link. Some estimates say type 2 diabetes is costing the economy 1.3 trillion dollars when all factors are taken into account. Getting type 2 diabetes well controlled can reduce the cost by as much as 80 % which would help the economy not to mention the benefit to the Americans who have or will be getting type 2 diabetes. At this point you are probably thinking that is the domain of The American Diabetes Association, NIH, CDC etc. You would be right and they should be the sources of the best information for controlling type 2 diabetes but they are failing miserably and the type 2 diabetes crisis is still doubling about every 10 years. We could have a long discussion about why this is happening but I only have 5000 characters. In a...

• Using web 2.0 and social bookmarking to reach and help more type 2 diabetics

  2009 Apr 13

  Have you wondered how you can help reach more type 2 diabetics? As an online type diabetes community we can help more people by using the tools the internet offers us. If we rely on one person to get the word out the process is very slow. If each of us do what we can do we have a very powerful synergistic effect. Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com has 1088 members as of 4/13/2009. It took us a little over two years to get to this point. Getting the site on the internet and well indexed in the search engines was part of this, but only a small part. Most sites get 90% of their site traffic from the search engines like Google, MSN Yahoo etc. Less than 18% of our site traffic comes from the search engines. That means we have a lot of people telling their friends and family about the site. That's great and appreciated but there are simple ways we can reach a lot more. If several people are bookmarking pages on the site the site goes higher in the rankings on the book marking site and more people see it. Each time a page on our site is bookmarked it gets a link back to the site. Each link back to our site helps increase our ranking with the search engines so we are placed higher in the listings and again more people will come to the site. Most of the book marking sites have high ranking with the search engines. High ranking sites linking back to our site increase our ranking even more. As you can see, the more we use...

• Can you trust health labels?

  2009 Apr 02

  Can you trust health labels? CBC Marketplace, Canada's award winning investigative consumer affairs show has also rightly targeted Health Check as being deceptive and a program that may well be misleading consumers into buying less healthy choices. Last year (http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/hyping_health/)they did a feature on Health Check and last Friday (http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/power_of_persuasion/busted.html)they hit them again in their Busted segment. Click to watch the CBC report http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/marketplace/hyping_health.wmv There is a mental disconnect between what the Canadian heart and Stoke Foundation says and what appears to be indorsed by their Health Check approved eymbol. The following is from the Heart and stroke web site. (http://www.heartandstroke.on.ca/site/c.pvI3IeNWJwE/b.3581713/k.7AD9/Health_Check.htm) Dietary sodium contributes to 17,000 cases a year of stroke and heart disease in Canada, study says OTTAWA, June 11, 2008: As many as 17,000 fewer Canadians would have a stroke, heart attack or suffer from heart failure every year if they consumed the recommended optimal daily level of dietary sodium, according to a study published today in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. The study, produced by researchers at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University, concludes that reducing dietary sodium could dramatically improve the health of Canadians, says co-author Dr. Norm Campbell of the Canadian Stroke Network. By reducing dietary sodium in Canada from current consumption levels of about 3,500 mg a day to the adequate intake range for adults of 1,200 to 1,500 mg a day: Between 8,300 and 17,000 fewer people would suffer from strokes, heart failure and heart attacks each year depending on how effective the reduction in dietary sodium is major strokes would be...

• Red meat increases health risks

  2009 Mar 24

  As Type 2 diabetics we need to bemore concerned with a healthy diet than most other people. This new study released Monday says there is higher mortality when eating red meat. Previous studies have also pointed the finger at red meat. In a study done by the National Institute of Health (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15333470) they said about the link between red meat and type 2 diabetes, These results remained significant after further adjustment for intakes of dietary fiber, magnesium, glycemic load, and total fat. Intakes of total cholesterol, animal protein, and heme iron were also significantly associated with a higher risk of type 2diabetes. CONCLUSIONS: Our data indicate that higher consumption of total red meat, especially various processed meats, may increase risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women. Other studies also indicate a link between type 2 diabetes and red meat.A study reported by BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4662934.stm) in January 2006 raised similar concerns. They said, Scientists at the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit and the Open University compared red meat and vegetarian diets.Their study, published in Cancer Research, found the red meat diet was associated with a higher level of DNA damage. About 5 years ago we started to understand the link between inflammatory foods such as red meat and a cluster of chronic diseases that are inflammatory in nature. Now comes an even larger study saying the increased mortality for a number of diseases increases with red meat consumption. The largest study of its...

• UCSD Researchers Discover Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance

  2009 Mar 18

  I had stumble upon eliminating inflammatory foods quit by accident when I was first diagnosed but I did not understand why it was working or that I was in fact doing it. What I had done was eliminate high glycemic foods such as flour, sugar and other highly processed carbohydrates as well as eliminating saturated fats and trans fats. (Mostly by eliminating foods that came in a box, the freezer section, and restaurants.) I had added the essential fatty acids in the Omega 3 family of fatty acids, primarily EPA and DHA from fish oil. I had also greatly increased the brightly colored fruits and vegetables high in anti oxidants. I had increased fiber and the live culture probiotic bacteria. Without knowing specifically what I was doing or why I was creating my own anti inflammatory diet. The results were quite dramatic. The blood glucose readings that were above 200 mg (11.1 mml/l ) quickly returned to the health range of 70-100 mg/dl ( 3.8 - 5.5 mml/l ) When I was diagnosed within 90 days prior the blood glucose reading in the ER was 570 mg/dl ( 31.6 mml/l) Within 90 days of diagnosis with this anti-inflammatory diet A1C had dropped to a very respectable 5.2 %. Not only was the blood glucose in control, I also noticed other conditions clearing up such as arthritis, chronic recurrent bronchitis and others. A couple of years ago Dr. Bill Code told me about the connection between diabetes (and in fact most chronic diseases) and inflammation. Suddenly it became much clearer. Today I came across a study...

• Who decides what we are eating?

  2009 Feb 24

  Have you wondered why there are so many foods sold that contribute to the type diabetes crisis? The video from ANP provides some clues to why there are so many foods being sold that are detramental to our health. the video is about a meeting on the national school lunch program which should be a little easier to get right but still the food manufacturers are selling foods to the lunch program that are detramental to national health. tVfAWbitBTs I picked this tidbit up from Dr. Yani Freedhoff and his blog at Weighty Matters (http://bmimedical.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-food-industry-influences-food.html) This is what he had to say: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 How the Food Industry Influences Food Policy (http://bmimedical.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-food-industry-influences-food.html) Simple - they're invited to the table and once there they're able to extend their considerable influence and spin on the proceedings (how many public citizens, scientists, doctors or dietitians have teams of PR folks and scientists helping craft their messages?). I've blogged about this a great deal in the past and commented on how bad an idea it is to bring people with a vested interest in national food policy to the table when trying to develop new national food policies. Rather than go through all that again I strongly encourage you to spend 6 minutes of your morning watching the following video. It does a great job covering just who it is who attends and gets involved in the consultations surrounding national food policy development. While this particular video deals with American school lunch programs, rest assured this video could have been filmed at every public consultation surrounding...

• America Losing the Fight With Type 2 Diabetes

  2009 Jan 29

  America Losing the Fight with Type 2 Diabetes The following article from Health Day highlights the losing battle against type 2 diabetes. Our site members seem to be doing better than most in combating this disease which can be best controlled by diet. The comments in blue interspersed through the article are those of Toma Grubb, administrator for www.Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News (http://www.healthday.com/) ) -- The type 2 diabetes epidemic that continues to sweep across the United States has left an estimated 24 million Americans struggling with the disease, up more than 3 million people since 2005. And, of course, with the epidemic comes the wave of illnesses and disabilities brought on by diabetes -- heart disease and stroke, blindness, amputations, kidney disease and nervous system damage. Doctors are trying to reverse the tide in two ways. First, they're continuing to press the public to adopt healthy lifestyle changes that can head off type 2 diabetes, or, at the very least, help control it if it's already present. And researchers are pushing to develop new drugs to help people manage their diabetes more effectively. Several studies have shown that the most effective prevention and treatment for type 2 diabetes and several other medical conditions is to radically change the content of our diets and the way we cook. There is abundant anecdotal evidence that type 2 diabetes can actually be reversed with proper diet. You have to look at the management of diabetes as a package, really, said...