Wednesday, January 18, 2012

5 Strategies For Successfully Managing Diabetes

As a follow up to last week’s post on my most recent blood work, here is the 5 step system I have used for successfully managing my diabetes.



Friday, January 13, 2012

Guess Who's Baaaaack......

It's been over a year - so what's been happening in The Land of Pricks?

LOTS!



Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Required Reading.....

Report: Marathons cause heart damage - LiveScience

"We know that regular exercise reduces cardiovascular risk by a factor of two or three in the long run, but while we're doing vigorous exercise such as marathon running, our cardiac risk increases by seven,"

Why your desk job is slowly killing you - Men'sHealth

"A person may hit the gym every day, but if he's sitting a good deal of the rest of the time, he's probably not leading an overall active life,"



Wednesday, October 20, 2010

More Leptin Magic......

Brain Might Be Key to Leptin's Actions Against Type 1 Diabetes, Researchers Find - ScienceDaily.com

"...research by Dr. Roger Unger, professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, has shown that subcutaneous administration of leptin, a hormone produced by the body's fat cells, can restore terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes to full health. The underlying cellular mechanisms that caused that effect, however, have been unclear."



Friday, October 8, 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

Some Recent Headlines

Could Diabetes Be in Your Bones? Link Between Metabolic Disease, Bone Mass; Breakdown of Bone Keeps Blood Sugar in Check - ScienceDaily.com

New Role for Master Regulator in Cell Metabolism, Response to Stress: Clinical Implications for Obesity, Diabetes and Cancer Research - ScienceDaily.com

Mice Essentially 'Cured' of Mild Diabetes With Enzyme - ScienceDaily.com

Low Vitamin D Linked to the Metabolic Syndrome in Elderly People - ScienceDaily.com

When Food Intake Stops, Enzyme Turns Off Production of Fats, Cholesterol - ScienceDaily.com

Gestational Diabetes Linked to Serotonin and Dietary Protein - ScienceDaily.com

Mothers' High Blood Sugar in Pregnancy Is Linked to Children's Reduced Insulin Sensitivity - ScienceDaily.com

Well-Defined Quantity of Antioxidants in Diet Can Improve Insulin Resistance, Study Finds -ScienceDaily.com

Poor Control of Diabetes May Be Linked to Low Vitamin D - ScienceDaily.com

Many People With Diabetes Do Not Know or Heed Dangers of Hot Weather - ScienceDaily.com

Fructose Sugar Makes Maturing Human Fat Cells Fatter, Less Insulin-Sensitive, Study Finds - ScienceDaily.com

Circadian Clock in Pancreas Directly Linked to Diabetes - ScienceDaily.com

Bariatric Surgery in Diabetic Adults Improves Insulin Sensitivity Better Than Diet, Study Finds - ScienceDaily.com

Insulin Peptide May Point to a Solution for Type 1 Diabetes - ScienceDaily.com

Scientists Find Hormone Influences Sensitivity to Sweetness - ScienceDaily.com

Diabetic Potential to Create Own Insulin: Type 1 Diabetes Patients Attempt to Replenish Beta Cells - ScienceDaily.com

New Associations Between Diabetes, Environmental Factors Found by Novel Analytic Technique - ScienceDaily.com