Diabetes
Keeping Active With Diabetes and Arthritis
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Daily physical activity is essential for good health and blood glucose control in people with diabetes. But what if you also have arthritis? One in five American adults has been diagnosed with arthritis, and half of all adults with diagnosed diabetes also have arthritis. Symptoms of arthritis can make it difficult to be active. But don’t let that stop you in your efforts: Frequent physical activity can help reduce the pain and stiffness of arthritis by improving muscle strength, endurance, and flexibility. Routine exercise also increases energy levels and helps with weight control. Other benefits include lowered blood pressure, a lower risk of heart disease, and sometimes improved sleep patterns.
If you have arthritis as well as diabetes, it is important to keep your muscles as strong as possible, because the stronger the muscles and tissues are around the joints, the better they will support and protect those joints. When you don’t exercise, your muscles become weak and your bones become more brittle, which leads to a worsening of arthritis symptoms and to other health problems such as osteoporosis, the decrease in bone density that can lead to bone fractures.
About arthritis
The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis, in which cartilage in the joints deteriorates.
Preserve community access to diabetes supplies, says pharmacy group
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Backers of a bill that would remove certain diabetes testing supplies from national competitive bidding say it will inject “some sanity” into the program.
Introduced May 6 by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the Medicare Access to Diabetes Supplies Act would exempt diabetes supplies like strips, monitors and lancets, that are furnished by small community pharmacies, from the bidding program. The Small Business Administration classifies small pharmacies as those with annual sales of $7 million or less.
While nearly three quarters of community pharmacists offer some DME, including diabetes supplies, it typically comprises less than 10% of their business, says John Norton, associate director of public relations for the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).
Covenant to host diabetes seminar
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Covenant Health System will host a free community program on “Understanding Diabetes: From Childhood to the Obesity Epidemic” 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 18 in the Knipling Education Conference Center, 21st Street and Louisville Avenue.
The program will be delivered by Chris Shanklin, a family practice physician at Covenant.
Shanklin will speak to participants about diabetes and related health issues.
Diabetes Nerve Pain May Worsen at Night
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People with diabetes-related nerve damage may experience worse pain in the evening hours, preliminary research suggests.
If confirmed in larger studies, the findings suggest that people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy might need more pain medication late at night.
Peripheral neuropathy is a type of nerve damage associated with type 2 diabetes most often characterized by pain, tingling, and numbness in the hands and feet.
Local DC Event Fights Diabetes and Childhood Obesity
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On Saturday, May 15, Agape Faith Ministries, a faith based organization dedicated to serving the metro Washington, DC community, will be hosting their first annual Community Health and Wellness day to help fight childhood obesity and diabetes in the urban community. This one day health extravaganza is being made possible with the help of Allens, Inc., the largest privately held vegetable company in the U.S., and Detroit-area nutritionist, Dr. Velonda Thompson. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from Noon to 5:00 p.m. at the Claypoole Courts Apartment complex in Columbia Heights.
At the event, Dr. Thompson will be available to perform miniature health screenings as well as to offer advice on how to eat healthier on a budget. Fitness exercises, including a Hula Hoop Competition, and a Taste Shop will also take place. The Taste Shop will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the facility’s kitchen.
At the Taste Shop, participants can sample heart healthy vegetables from Allens and learn about nutritious recipes to make at home. Attendees will also receive Allens canned vegetables to help them kick off their new healthy lifestyle.
Glycemic Index, Blood Sugar and Diabetes
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There are many different diets circulating in the media as well as medicine today. Diets that focus on reduced carbohydrate intake, diets that limit or reduce fat intake, low-caloric diets, combination diets, blood typing diets, genotype diets, and diabetic diets can all be very confusing.
The topic of this discussion is the glycemic index. The glycemic index was first developed by Dr. David Jenkins who was a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto in Canada. The first glycemic index was developed in 1981 by Dr. Jenkins. The purposes of determining glycemic index of particular foods were to determine which foods were best for people with diabetes. In the early 80s, most dietary programs that focused on diabetics were based on systems of different carbohydrate exchanges.
Each exchange or each portion of food one was able to consume contained the same about of carbohydrate. The exchange system assumed that all starchy foods produce the same effect on blood glucose levels. Even though some earlier studies had also proven this was not correct, it was during that time that the phrase “good carbs and bad carbs” was developed and as time went on, we started to understand there were simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates and as time continued to go on, we realized that they had different effects on blood sugar levels, so in reality all carbs were not the same.
Method of treating diabetes
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Method of treating diabetes:
As early as 50 years ago, Chinese and foreign treatment programs are low-carbohydrate, high fat, high protein foods.According to clinical practice proved that the diet of islet function in diabetic patients not beneficial, while high fat diet will increase the patient’s vascular disease diabetes, high protein diet will cause increased incidence of diabetic nephropathy.Medical experts are promoting the current high carbohydrate content, lower fat percentage, protein intake control diet, to improve blood glucose tolerance have good results, the specific treatment methods are summarized as follows:
One way of treating diabetes, the immune therapy
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Diabetes drugs warning: they cause heart problems
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Widely used diabetes drugs appear to increase patients’ risk of potentially fatal heart problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London and published in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers examined patient and prescription records to examine rates of heart failure, heart attack and death from any cause among 900,000 patients taking all different kinds of diabetes drugs. Patients were followed for an average of seven years each.
Diabetes drugs fall into three classes: sulphonyureas, glitazones and biguanides. The sulphonyureas include chlorpropamide, glibenclamide (marketed as Daonil and Euglucon), gliclazide (marketed as Diamicron), glimepiride (marketed as Amaryl), glipizide (marketed as Glibenese and Minodiab) and tolbutamide.
Moderate drinking linked to lower diabetes risk
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Adults who have a drink or two per day may have a lower diabetes risk than teetotalers—and the link does not appear to be explained by moderate drinkers’ generally healthier lifestyle, a new study finds.
A number of studies have found an association between moderate drinking and a relatively lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, whether that reflects a benefit of alcohol has been unclear. A central issue is the fact that, compared with both non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers tend to have a generally healthier lifestyle.
In the new study, researchers found that among more than 35,000 Dutch adults followed for a decade, those who averaged a drink or two per day were 45 percent less likely than teetotalers to develop type 2 diabetes.
Avera Medical Minute: Diabetes, Heart Disease and Diet Modification
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The CDC estimates that nearly 24 million people in this country have diabetes. 18 million have been diagnosed, but 7 million haven’t. That’s a real problem because your chances of dying from heart disease and stroke are 2 to 4 times greater when you have diabetes. Here’s more on diabetes, heart disease and diet modification with an expert at the Avera Heart Hospital.
A lot of patients at the Avera Heart Hospital have diabetes which makes sense since it’s a big risk factor for heart disease. Suprisingly a lot of those patients had no idea. Dietitian and Diabetes Educator at the Heart Hospital Mary Beth Russell helps teach those patients how to modify their diets and learn what foods affect their blood sugar like carbohydrates.
Mary Beth Russell says, “Lots and lots of foods have carbohydrates in them. They need a clear understanding of those foods and how that affects their blood sugar. It’s the worst at raising blood sugar levels.”
Diabetes body hires public affairs chief
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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has appointed a new head of public affairs and campaigns following a major parliamentary drive in the run up to the general election.
Laura Vallance joined from The Kennel Club last week, after working as public affairs manager there for four years.
Vallance will work with public affairs officer Sarah Astles to deliver a government relations campaign, reporting to director of comms and policy Sarah Johnson.
Bad night’s sleep can hamper body’s insulin use
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Just one sleepless night can hamper the body’s ability to use insulin to process sugar in the bloodstream, according to a study which scientists say might help explain why diabetes is on the rise.
Researchers said their findings suggest it may be no coincidence that while sleep duration has shortened in western societies in the past decade there has also been an increase in cases of “insulin resistance” and adult-onset diabetes.
“Our findings show a short night of sleep has more profound effects on metabolic regulation than previously appreciated,” said Esther Donga, director of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, who led the study published on Wednesday.
Diabetes and Cancer Linked – Biomedical Scientists
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A team of biomedical scientists based have linked diabetes with cancer in women.
They suggest that female patients with type 2 diabetes have up to a 25 per cent increased risk of developing cancer than those without the condition, the Daily Mail reports.
According to NHS figures, around 2.3 million people have diabetes in the UK and there are at least half a million more who suffer from it and are not aware.
High glycemic diet may raise female heart risk: study
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Women who eat lots of high glycemic index (GI) carbohydrates like white bread and ice-cream may be at greater risk of heart disease, but men do not seem to be affected, Italian scientists said on Monday.
In a study of almost 48,000 adults, the scientists found that the 25 percent of women who ate the most carbohydrates overall had around double the risk of heart disease of the 25 percent who ate the least.
When these carbohydrates were separated into high and low glycemic index categories, the researchers found that eating more high GI foods was strongly linked to greater risk of coronary heart disease, whereas low GI foods were not.
Breastfeeding lowers diabetes risk
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Middle-aged and older women who breastfeed their children have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who bottle-feed their babies.
Past studies have linked breastfeeding with a lower risk of developing diabetes. To examine the effect of childbearing and breastfeeding on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers studied 52,731 Australian women, aged between 45 years and older. The women in the study were divided into 3 groups – women who had children and never breastfed; women who never had children previously; and women who had children and breastfed.
Of the 5,700 women who never had children earlier, 274 (5 percent) were diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes was also reported by 5 percent of the 25,000-plus women who had breastfed their children for more than three months.
