Prediabetes - Dr. Gundry's The Plant Paradox Is Wrong
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn't even pass the whiff test. I started getting emails about The Plant Paradox, a book purporting to expose...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Are Plant-Based Diets Better for Blood Sugar Control?
Having blood sugar in a healthy range is vital for good health. Cells rely on glucose for energy, but to supply that energy, glucose must get into cells. Insulin opens the...
View ArticlePrediabetes - How to Avoid Lectin Poisoning
How should we properly cook beans? In the 1800s, a compound was discovered in castor beans, which we would come to know as the first of a class of lectin proteins, natural...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure
What happened when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure? Arsenic is a carcinogenic heavy metal, and the major...
View ArticleUSPSTF proposes ‘major change' to prediabetes, diabetes screening...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft recommendation that, if adopted, would lower the age to start screening adults with overweight or obesity for...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Diabetes Meal Plan Priorities
Can you give me a meal plan? What should I eat? What about potatoes? Can I eat fruit? When I first meet with someone who is newly diagnosed with diabetes, there is so much to...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Screen for Diabetes at 35? Few With Osteoporosis Receiving...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is seeking feedback on its new draft recommendation statement on screening for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, which recommends...
View ArticlePrediabetes - No increased breast cancer risk found with GLP-1 receptor agonists
Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists for treatment of diabetes or obesity does not increase the risk for breast cancer or benign breast neoplasms, according to study findings. “SCALE...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Should You Get an Annual Health Check-Up?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor? Physicians and patients have come to expect the annual check-up as a routine part of care...
View ArticlePrediabetes - UTHSC researchers receive $1.99 million to advance...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases recently awarded a team of UTHSC researchers $1.99 million for their work to advance understanding of the...
View ArticlePrediabetes - 5 Ways to Lower Your Blood Triglycerides Naturally
Have you checked your triglyceride level lately? High blood triglycerides are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Although less well recognized than cholesterol as a risk...
View ArticlePros and Cons of Draft Recs for Prediabetes, Diabetes Screening
The United States Preventive Services Task Force has drafted guidance that calls for screening all asymptomatic adults ages 35 to 70 years who are overweight or obese. Medscape...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Transitioning from Vegetarianism and Becoming Less and Less...
Today, we have another Success Story from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Lifestyle education program helps increase moderate-to-vigorous...
D-CLIP, a lifestyle education program to prevent diabetes in South Asians with prediabetes, increased moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity by up to nearly an hour a...
View ArticlePrediabetes - Lifestyle changes may prevent ocular manifestations linked to...
ATLANTA - Lifestyle modifications that can prevent or reverse conditions like obesity and prediabetes are equally important in lowering the associated risks for ocular...
View ArticlePrediabetes can boost a person's chance of major cardiovascular events
People with prediabetes were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other major cardiovascular event when compared with those who had normal blood sugar...
View ArticlePrediabetes may not be as benign as once thought
People with prediabetes were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other major cardiovascular event when compared with those who had normal blood sugar...
View ArticlePrediabetes - The Most Antioxidant-Packed Whole Food
Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla-dried Indian gooseberries-too good to be true? In reference to amla, also known as the Indian gooseberry, it's been said that...
View ArticlePrediabetes - These Herbs and Spices Can Help Deter Diabetes
Based on estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2005, the total prevalence of diabetes was estimated at 20.8 million people, or 7% of the...
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