Diabetes
Unexpected Complications with Sucralose
Many people trying to lose weight cut back on sugar by substituting artificially sweetened beverages for their favorite soda. Scientists have not been able to establish whether that tactic is effectiv…
Show 1272: How Your Eyes Reveal Your Health
You may have heard that the eyes are the window to the soul. That could be difficult to prove, but scientists have now shown that the eyes offer significant clues to your overall health. Most exciting…
Will Cinnamon Help You Control Your Blood Sugar?
You may never have thought much about controlling your blood sugar unless your doctor said you should. Unfortunately, millions of people around the world have type 2 diabetes or are at risk for it. In…
You Are What You Eat: Is Your Diet Killing You?
For years, researchers have sought to answer the question: Is our diet killing us? Unfortunately, too often what we eat and what we skip contributes to disease and death. We’ve all heard that what w…
Is Inexpensive Food Undermining Public Health?
Are US government agricultural subsidies undermining public health? A study several years ago suggested that people who eat a lot of foods made from subsidized crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat and …
How Does Metformin Affect Vitamin D Status?
Millions of people take metformin, a versatile drug. Since it reduces insulin resistance, doctors often prescribe to people with type 2 diabetes to help with blood sugar control. However, oncologists …
Are Pecans Good for Your Heart?
Have you ever wondered whether your favorite food is good for your heart? If your favorite foods include ice cream and cookies, you don't have to wonder. The answer is a clear no. If you love oatmeal …
Diet and Exercise Prevent Diabetes as Well as Me…
Is There a Way to Prevent Diabetes? Fifteen years ago, a study called the Diabetes Prevention Program showed that diet and exercise work as well to prevent diabetes among high-risk individuals as taki…
How to Choose Whole Grains for a Longer Life
Nutrition experts have long been advising us to eat whole grains, and epidemiologists have evidence that getting three servings of whole grains daily can reduce the chance of an early death. In fact, …
Tai Chi Can Help Control Waist Size
Expanding waistlines are not attractive, but they're not just a cosmetic problem. Big bellies, also known as “central obesity” or "abdominal adiposity," are often linked with high blood pressure, …
When Do You Get the Most Benefit from a Workout?
It's no secret that exercise is good for your health. Research has shown that physical activity can help reduce the risk of dementia as well helping to control depression, diabetes and high blood pres…
Is Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Dementia Risk?
Some experts who study Alzheimer disease have suggested that it is closely linked to the metabolic problems of diabetes. Alternatively, they have proposed a diabetes-related dementia may differ from c…
Can You Delay Alzheimer Disease with Drugs for D…
People with Alzheimer’s disease have distinctive lesions within their brains. Individuals with diabetes also have pathological changes resembling those seen in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. P…
Will Natural Sugar Substitute Xylitol Raise Bloo…
If you have been told your blood sugar may be too high, whether or not you have diabetes, you may be looking for foods that could lower it. Sugar, honey and maple syrup all raise blood sugar. What abo…
Type 2 Diabetes, Largely Preventable, Accounts f…
This is an excerpt from Dennis Miller’s explosive new book The Shocking Truth About Pharmacy: A Pharmacist Reveals All The Disturbing Secrets. The entire book is available for download from Amazon f…
Show 1242: How the Dental Diet Can Lead to Bette…
Imagine a dental diet designed to keep your teeth and gums in good health. What does it look like? Does it have any impact on your health beyond the limit of your tongue? A Dentist Champions the Denta…
More Metformin Recalls Distress Diabetes Patient…
Metformin is the most popular diabetes drug in the world. At last count, nearly 90 million prescriptions are dispensed every year for this medicine. But last December the FDA announced that it was pay…
How Your Home Address Affects Your Health
Where people live can have a profound impact on their risk of developing certain chronic health conditions. Scientists have been able to map the differences in health conditions across the United Stat…
Are Popular Drugs Responsible for the Diabetes E…
We’re in the middle of a pandemic, but you already knew that. We’re also in the middle of an epidemic. It has been going on for decades and the long-term health consequences could be even more gra…
Can You Reduce Your Chance of Getting Diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes has been increasing at an alarming rate, not just in the US but also around the world. Most clinicians believe that obesity puts a person at serious risk of this condition. However, th…
Is a Late Dinner a Problem?
In the comic strip "Blondie," the cartoonist Chic Young often featured Blondie's goofy husband Dagwood Bumstead. Frequently, Dagwood built himself a towering sandwich as a midnight snack. Now, new res…
Can You Believe FDA’s Drug Safety Claims?
How do you define the word safe? We suspect that most people would start with a synonym such as harmless. Others might say free from risk or danger. The FDA’s drug safety claims, however, may includ…
Show 1216: How Sugar Interferes With Healthy Dec…
The telomeres that cap our chromosomes are a good way to gauge biological aging. Dr. Elissa Epel, who studies aging and metabolism at UCSF, has found a link between soda consumption and cellular aging…
Can You Change Your Microbiota With Diet?
Since the turn of the 21st century, scientists have learned a great deal about our microbiota, the collections of microbes each of us hosts in and on us. They have been discovering fascinating links b…
Drug Labels Inadequate for Metformin Drug Recall…
In case you might have missed our alerts about metformin drug recalls, here is a link to this latest drug debacle. Yup, the FDA has been caught up in another nitrosamine contamination scandal. Five co…
Which Metformin is OK and Which is on the FDA’…
Is the FDA facing another scandal? It was not that long ago that the agency was announcing massive recalls of popular “sartan” blood pressure medications such as irbesartan, losartan and valsartan…
ALERT | Metformin Carcinogen Contamination Confi…
We have been quite concerned about the most widely prescribed diabetes drug in the world. Metformin (Glucophage) is taken by over 18 million Americans. More than 90 million prescriptions are dispensed…
Prednisone and Diabetes: A Life-Threatening Gluc…
We have described prednisone as a “Deal with the Devil.” That’s because this drug is the classic double-edged sword. It can save lives and make life worth living for some people. For others, tho…
Can You Manage Your Blood Sugar Naturally?
Metformin is a first-line medication for people with type 2 diabetes. Although doctors also prescribe it for different disorders, from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) to prostate cancer, the majori…
How Could Bacteria Boost Diabetes Risk?
People who are overweight often develop type 2 diabetes. Canadian researchers now believe that bacteria may be the connection between obesity and this metabolic disorder (Nature Metabolism, March 9, 2…
Are There Benefits from Taking Ginseng?
For the past 30 years, Americans have been turning to herbs to prevent or treat health problems. Sometimes plant-based medicines have reputations that may not be supported by scientific research. One …
FDA Embraces Generic Drugs from India Despite Qu…
2019 has been a year of many drug recalls because of concerns about quality and safety. The FDA announced a number of recalls involving blood pressure pills called ARBs. Angiotensin receptor blockers …
Show 1154: How to Take Good Care of Your Eyesigh…
A national survey just a few years ago showed that Americans fear losing their vision more than they fear losing a limb, their hearing, their ability to speak or even their memory (Scott et al, JAMA O…
Show 1189: What the Heck Should We Be Eating?
If you like to cook, you are no doubt aware that favorite recipes change with the times, just like fashions in clothing. But a lot of Americans don’t like to cook. They may not have tried acquiring …
If Atorvastatin Triggers Diabetes What’s the B…
Millions of people take statins: atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, pitavastatin, simvastatin or rosuvastatin. What should someone do if atorvastatin triggers diabetes like the person…
Is Depression Linked to Metformin for Diabetes?
Doctors and patients both may have a hard time determining when a new health concern is actually a side effect. That's especially difficult when you don't find the problem on any official list of drug…
Can Cutting Out Sweets Help Control Blood Sugar?
Can we reverse the international epidemic of type 2 diabetes? Doctors know that some lifestyle measures, such as losing weight, staying active and managing stress, can make a difference. They sometime…
Are People with Diabetes Being Overtreated?
People with diabetes need to keep tabs on their blood sugar. That allows them to adjust their treatments to keep it within a normal range. But are some people with diabetes being overtreated? Too High…
Are Statin Side Effects Fake Medical News?
Doctors dislike drug side effects. After all, physicians prescribe medications to help people, not to hurt them. And yet every medicine has the potential to cause adverse reactions. This leaves physic…
Show 1173: How Is Diabetes Diagnosed and Treated…
Diabetes has nearly become an epidemic, both in the US and around the world. This metabolic disorder interferes with the way the body processes energy and affects more than 30 million Americans. That'…