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There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight...I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes - Paula Deen
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Fighting Diabetes With Food
In the summer of 2012, Sami Inkinen was 36, wealthy, and semiretired. Trulia, the online real estate company he cofounded and nurtured from a startup to a business with some 20 million users, had filed to go public, and he had decided to cease his operational role. The eight-year journey had been rewarding but exhausting. Inkinen planned to focus on angel investing.
That would leave plenty of time for his main hobby: triathlons. A champion who obsessively tracks his biometrics, Inkinen was a fitness freak even by Silicon Valley standards. He had less than 8% body fat. But life is full of ironic twists, and he was hurtling toward a particularly sharp one. Soon after Trulia went…
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Diabetes Debate Leaves Little Consensus
New guidelines for Type 2 diabetes patients suggests changing a standard for blood-sugar levels that other medical groups still stand by.
Diabetes may be a major, overlooked reason Americans are now dying earlier
Diabetes’ prevalence has exploded in the US over the past 20 years. Nearly 30 million Americans live with the disease today — more than three times the number in the early 1990s. And researchers have long known that diabetes is an underreported cause of death on death certificates, the primary data source for determining life expectancy trends. That’s because people with diabetes often have multiple health conditions, or “comorbidities,” such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and even cancer.
Patient Voices: Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes can wreak havoc on the entire body, affecting everything from hearing and vision to sexual function, mental health and sleep. It is the leading cause of blindness, amputations and kidney failure, and it can triple the risk for heart attack and stroke. But with vigilant monitoring, a person can keep Type 2 diabetes under control and live well. Five men and women speak about living with diabetes.
The strange side effect of gastric bypass that helps diabetics
We don't really understand how bariatric surgery improves type 2 diabetes.
Virta Survey Says: People with Diabetes Carry a Load of Worries
Type 2 diabetes is a national crisis — the numbers are staggering. In 2015, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) reported that about 29 million Americans had type 2 diabetes. An additional 84 million adult Americans had prediabetes, a condition that typically progresses into full-blown diabetes if untreated.
A Pill to Treat Diabetes
Bariatric surgery has been shown to relieve Type II diabetes. Scientists at Glyscend are developing a drug that could mimic the effect—but with no surgery required.
Addressing Type 2 Diabetes: An Immodest Proposal
Although diabetes can lead to cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, blindness and even amputation of toes, feet and legs – a procedure 200 U.S. patients undergo every day – we have not been able to get most people to change their behavior. Understanding the growing diabetes problem, its causes and the lack of action is complex.
Beat Diabetes: 4 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Preventative medicine is rapidly becoming the focus of many doctors who would prefer to help their patients prevent rather than treat a disease like diabetes.
Climate change may be upping your risk of diabetes
A new study suggests Type 2 diabetes is rising along with the temperature.
Curing Diabetes: How Type 2 Became an Accepted Lifestyle
Diabetes is big business, and many have been convinced that managing it forever is their only option. But it is possible to cure the disease.
Diabetes is on the rise — and it's costing the US billions each year
The CDC's latest report offers no explanation for the rise. But, at least with type 2 diabetes, the rise of diabetes is linked to America's increasingly sedentary lifestyle. It's no coincidence that obesity is becoming a bigger problem as diabetes gets worse as well.
FDA Says Certain Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Can Cause Serious Joint Pain
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a safety alert Friday that some widely used treatments for Type 2 diabetes can cause severe and disabling joint pain, raising concerns for a big-selling class of drugs. The FDA alert applies to a category of pills known as DPP-IV inhibitors...
Hoodwinked by the diabetes industry
Hoodwinked by the diabetes industry, we spend, as a society, tons of money treating this so-called risk factor called hemoglobin A1c, yet all that money does almost nothing to save lives or help people live longer. We should be spending healthcare dollars that purchase health.
Hope for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
Many experts believe Type 2 diabetes is an incurable disease that gets worse with time. But new research raises the tantalizing possibility that drastic changes in diet may reverse the disease in some people.
How to Fight Type 2 Diabetes
You might not know this from listening to the American Diabetes Association or Paula Deen, the new face of the disease, but the first line of defense against type 2 diabetes is weight loss.
It’s possible to reverse type-2 diabetes in some people—and it’s not even that difficult
Reversal of diabetes has been studied in those undergoing bariatric surgery, where reduction in the size of the stomach reduces patients’ ability to eat large quantities and often results in major weight loss. But this is the first study where the reversal has lasted for as long as six months.
Researchers identify cause of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetics
A new link between high levels of certain amino acids and type 2 diabetes was found by a team led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, using mouse and human muscle and blood samples to evaluate the mechanisms that lead to insulin resistance.
Specialists Call for Gastric Surgery to Be Standard Diabetes Treatment
The call from 45 international organizations represents a massive shift in care guidelines.
Why Doctors for Diabetics Now Recommend Surgery Instead of Drugs
New guidelines for surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes bolster hopes of finding a cure, according to Francesco Rubino, but long-standing preconceptions must be put aside.
Fighting Diabetes With Food
Virta is one of a handful of companies attempting to attack the epidemic—some 28 million Americans suffer from Type 2 diabetes—without relying on medications.
Beyond Type 2
Launched in 2019, Beyond Type 2 is a program of the nonprofit organization Beyond Type 1. Beyond Type 2 is a place for everyone impacted by Type 2 diabetes to share their stories, get connected to the community, and find resources on topics from daily management to mental health.
Sweet Success: My life with Type 2 Diabetes
I am NOT a doctor, dietician or expert. Do I know everything there is to know about diabetes? Heck no, but I do know what it’s like to live with it.
TheDiabetesSite.com
Our goal is to help engage all those affected by Diabetes and to provide a positive and valuable experience while helping to spread awareness of this important issue.
Type 2 Diabetes - A Personal Journey
Ideas based on my personal experiences in learning how to manage type 2 diabetes. I stress that I am a diabetic, not a doctor nor a dietician.
Virta Health
Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Drawing on decades of research, including that of our founders and advisors, Virta is driving two major innovations.
Diabetes.org
Information on how to live a health lifestyle as a diabetic.
DiabetesSisters
DiabetesSisters offers a range of education and support services to help women of all ages with all types of diabetes live healthier, fuller lives. We understand the fear and isolation that often comes with living with diabetes because we are an organization that is managed by women who are living with diabetes.
dLife
The number one source that empowers millions of diabetes patients and those who care for them to live well with diabetes. dLife is THE place for all aspects of your diabetes life information, inspiration, and connection with others who share your challenges and concerns.
EndocrineWeb
Our diabetes search engine will help you find specific diabetes information.
KidsHealth
KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
MayoClinic
Mayo Clinic's three main Web sites provide information and services from the world's first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice.
MedicineNet
MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
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