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Linseeds Cut Diabetes And Heart Disease Risks
New research has shown that including linseeds in your diet could help to reduce insulin resistance and lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This small study involved 25 overweight or obese men and post-menopausal women. The results showed that taking just 13 grams (roughly a tablespoonful) of ground linseeds daily for 12 weeks [...]
Statins, Diabetes And CoQ10
Last year, in The Real Diabetes Truth of 15 May 2012, I explained how statin drugs can cause diabetes. Millions of people take statins on a daily basis, raising the possibility of thousands of statin-induced diabetes cases. In fact, the massive worldwide use of these drugs since they were launched around 25 years ago could [...]
Diabetes Clinical Trials Ignore Heart Disease Risks
Cardiovascular complications, including heart disease and stroke, are the biggest worry for anybody who suffers from diabetes. And the amount of research being carried out into diabetes worldwide is staggering, amounting to thousands of research studies every year. So, you might think that the result of all this effort would be some real breakthroughs in [...]
Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Raise Breast Cancer Risk
If you have been following The Real Diabetes Truth, you will know that diabetes is a complex condition that pervades many areas of health that were once thought to have little to do with one another. As well as the well-known associations of diabetes with heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity, it has long [...]
Boosting Testosterone Could Benefit Men With Type 2 Diabetes
Doctors have known for some time that men with type 2 diabetes tend to have lower than normal testosterone levels. Now, Australian researchers have started a two-year study to investigate whether giving men additional testosterone could help them to lose weight and avoid diabetes. Around 1500 Australian men who have been diagnosed as being pre-diabetic [...]
More Evidence On How Vitamin D Benefits Diabetics
In The Real Diabetes Truth on 13 Dec 2012, I reported on research findings that showed a deficiency in vitamin D was linked with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes. Since then, four important new studies have shed further light on the relationship between vitamin D and diabetes. What they show is that: • [...]
Try These “Top Ten” Herbs for Diabetes
In my last post, I explained some of the many benefits of the herbal extract berberine. But berberine is far from being the only herb whose anti-diabetic properties have been validated in clinical trials and which has been found to perform as well as, or better than, standard diabetes drugs. Here are ten of the [...]
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