While an estimated 17.9 million in the US alone have been diagnosed with diabetes, nearly one in four (5.7 million) diabetics are unaware that they have the disease.

Clinical studies that have lowered the percentage of dietary carbohydrate and/or the glycerin index of the carbohydrate have consistently shown improvements in glycerin control among individuals with type 2 diabetes [4-8]. While the effect was stronger than medication, the intensive lifestyle group developed diabetes at a rate of 20% after 4 years. This work was supported in part by the Julia Parish Diabetes Research Institute (#253036) and a Grant from the American Heart Association (6119G61915) Eighty-four community volunteers with obesity and type 2 diabetes were randomized to either a low-carbohydrate, photogenic diet (<20 g of carbohydrate daily; LCKD  Read more... (538 words, 2 images, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The term diabetes, without qualification, usually refers to diabetes mellitus, which is associated with excessive sweet urine (known as “glycosuria”) but there are several rarer conditions also named diabetes. There is no known preventive measure which ca

Mortality was related to older age, lower lung function, lower health status and diabetes, as shown in Table 2. This observation led to the use of diets low in carbohydrate for the treatment of diabetes before insulin or other medication therapies were available [2]. AUSTRALIAN scientists have uncovered a key clue in the mystery of how insulin works, bringing them closer to a cure for diabetes. Because this effect occurs immediately upon implementing the dietary changes, individuals with type 2 diabetes who are unable to adjust their own medication or self-monitor their blood glucose should not make these  Read more... (489 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

The majority of type 1 diabetes is of the immune-mediated variety, where beta cell loss is a T-cell mediated autoimmune attack. There is no known preventive measure which can be taken against type 1 diabetes; it is about 10% of diabetes mellitus cases in

Clinical studies that have lowered the percentage of dietary carbohydrate and/or the glycerin index of the carbohydrate have consistently shown improvements in glycerin control among individuals with type 2 diabetes [4-8]. Lifestyle modification using low-carbohydrate diet interventions are effective for improving obesity and type 2 diabetes, and may play an important role in reversing the current epidemic of ‘diabesity. While this study was a treatment trial of individuals with type 2 diabetes, lifestyle modification has been shown to prevent type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes and even scoping and cancer, just  Read more... (559 words, 2 images, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

While an estimated 17.9 million in the US alone have been diagnosed with diabetes, nearly one in four (5.7 million) diabetics are unaware that they have the disease. There is no known preventive measure which can be taken against type 1 diabetes; it is about 10% of diabetes mellitus cases in North America and Europe (though this varies by geographical location), and is a higher percentage in some other areas. s/)often referred to simply as diabetesis a condition in which the body does not produce enough, or gracefully respond to, insulin, a hormone produced in the  Read more... (606 words, 2 images, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)