Diabetes Mellitus commonly referred to as Diabetes is a condition that affects your body’s ability to use the energy in your food.
Excess Carbohydrates Cause Elevated Triglycerides Overweight patients commonly have elevations of their small LDL cholesterol and triglycerides as well as decreases of their HDL cholesterol; all of these changes Ā correlate with an increased risk of heart attacks.Ā Ā This pattern is collectively known as atherogenic dyslipidemia and is associated with the narrowing of arteries called atherosclerosis. […]
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What Does A Family History of Diabetes, High Blood Pressure or Heart Attacks Really Mean? Iāve spoken with many patients who worry about their health and that of their children because there seems to be a strong family history of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or even heart attacks.Ā Ā Their concerns are obvious but
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IfĀ it does, donāt think youāre alone.Ā Many Americans are dealing with the same thing.Ā Patients complain about it to me all the time.Ā What youĀ may beĀ experiencing is an accumulation of fat within the abdominal cavity (called intra abdominal fat).Ā Ā And your body may be abnormally storing fat there because the carbohydrates (sugar and starches) in your
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Soda is Dangerous In aĀ recently published studyĀ in the November 2010 issue of Diabetes Care, Dr Vasanti S Malik (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA)Ā reported that consumption of just one or two sugar-sweetened beverages per day is associated with a 26% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 20% increased risk
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PoisoningĀ Our Children’sĀ Future The diabetes epidemic is growing so rapidly that presently 1 of every 10 adults in the U.S. has diabetes.Ā That number is anticipated to grow to 1 of every 3 adults by 2050.Ā That means that 1/3 of all those beautiful little kids in your childās classroom, 1/3 of their soccer teammates and
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Weight loss can significantly decrease your chances of developing diabetes, and also significantly decrease your health insurance premiums. One of the largest health insurers in the nation, UnitedHealth Group, has developed an approach to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and to increase the health of the American public. This program is predicted to
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As many readers have argued, juice is good for you.Ā Why not?Ā It comes from fruit, and fruit is loaded with vitamins and nutrients that our body needs.Ā Fact of the matter, juice is an excellent source of vitamins, but it is loaded with sugar.Ā The sugar in juice may be one of the causes
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In a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers identified 4 factors tied to reduced disease risk: never smoking, having a body mass index (BMI) lower than 30, performing at least 3.5 hours per week of physical activity, and following a healthy diet. Participants with all 4 factors had a 78% lower
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Many patients I seeĀ in my practice are taking fish oil supplements and don’t really understand why they are beneficialĀ but just that everyone seems to recommend taking them. Fish and certain plant and nut oils are common natural sources of omega-3 fatty acids.Ā Fatty acids are special molecules that have a wide array of
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What are the Symptoms of Insulin Resistance? People may have Insulin Resistance for several years without noticing anything.Ā But in many individuals, Insulin Resistance causes a wide variety of common symptoms we often attribute to other medical circumstances. These symptoms often occur because of an imbalance of your autonomic nervous system. Common symptoms from autonomic
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What Causes Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome? The last 20 years has seen an epidemic rise in Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus in the United States.Ā Extensive research has helped us to understand that the combination of high carbohydrate diets, lack of exercise and increased portion sizes has lead to this problem. Prehistoric humans
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Many of my patients who are working on the carbohydrate restriction to improve their blood pressure, blood sugars, triglycerdies and weight often tell me that if they “fall of the wagon” and start eating high carbohydrates foods, they can’t seem to stop.Ā There are scientific reasons for this. Eating a diet high in carbohydrates results
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The caloric density of foods that we’re exposed to has also changed dramatically in the last few decades.Ā The more manufacturers process the food, the greater the caloric density the food product often obtains. For example, letās look at the number of calories per pound of corn and corn products: Fresh Corn – 490 calories
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Weight loss (bariatric) surgery has been shown to reduce diabetes-related mortality by 88%. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that weight loss surgery surgery reduced the overall death rate by 34%, disease-related deaths and cardiovascular deaths by 48%, cancer-related deaths by 59%, and diabetes-related deaths by 88% in patients with
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