Twelve Ounces Closer to Diabetes

Drinking excessive amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages can lead to obesity.  Obesity is known to increase your chances of type 2 diabetes.  There is no ground-breaking news there.  However, recent research has indicated that these beverages, even in small amounts, can increases your chances of becoming diabetic significantly, absolutely independent of what your body weight is.

A study published in Diabetologia, the journal published by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, examined over 250,000 participants, and ...

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Insulin’s Dirty Little Secret

Until recently, it has been widely accepted that being overweight or obese creates an environment inside the body that requires the pancreas to produce more and more insulin to process glucose, or blood sugar.  That is until recent research has discovered a more insidious agenda of insulin.  A study in the December 2012 issue of Cell Metabolism provides evidence that high circulating levels of insulin may actually be helping to promote obesity, not the other way around.

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Green Tea: Nature’s Insulin?

Is it possible that simply switching your breakfast beverage from coffee to green tea can have a drastic impact on your health?  Researchers say yes.

Green tea has been in the news repeatedly in the past few years, touting bold claims of its antioxidants, and anti-cancer, anti-aging benefits.  New research is pointing to another benefit; the moderation of blood sugar levels.  A specific ingredient in the tea, epigallocatechin (EGCG), has been linked to reducing blood sugar spikes ...

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Losing Sleep Over Diabetes, or Losing Sleep and Becoming Diabetic?

I can remember a time when diabetes was a disease limited to the unlucky one student in the classroom.  Today’s era of rising obesity rates seem to walk hand-in-hand with the threat that you, your spouse, a parent, or your child may very well be facing this threat as I write this article.  In fact, according to the American Diabetes Association, each year another 1.9 million Americans will be diagnosed.  That’s 5082 people each day.  One every 17 ...

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