Translation: A Mediterranean-style dietary pattern protected against onset of metabolic syndrome (as defined by National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III) in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort. Made you look! Don’t you just love acronyms? Lately it seems you gotta have a clever acronym for your scientific study or it won’t get published or remembered. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Causes of Diabetes’
June 18, 2010
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Bane of Mankind?
Over the last 30 years in the U.S., consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has increased from3.9% of total calories to 9.2% (in 2001). In that same time span, the percentage of overweight American adults increased from 47% to 66%. The obesity percentage rose from15 to 33% of adults. [Did the beverages cause the weight gain, or [...]
April 9, 2010
Prediabetes Ignored Way Too Often
Only half of Americans with prediabetes take steps to avoid progression to diabetes, according to a recent report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Prediabetes is defined as: fasting blood sugar between 100 and 125 mg/dl (5.56–6.94 mmol/l) or blood sugar level 140–199 mg/dl (7.78–11.06 mmol/l) two hours after drinking 75 grams of glucose Prediabetes [...]
January 10, 2010
Diabetes + Overweight and Obesity = Diabesity
Mark Hyman, M.D., blogged about diabesity at the Huffington Post December 24, 2009. He defines diabesity as a problem with glucose regulation associated with overweight and obesity. The glucose physiology problem ranges from metabolic syndrome to prediabetes to full-blown type 2 diabetes. “Diabesity” has been in circulation for a few years, but hasn’t caught on [...]
December 9, 2009
Book Review: Good Calories, Bad Calories
Here’s my review of good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, by Gary Taubes, 2007. I give it five stars on Amazon.com’s five-star system (“I love it”). ♦ ♦ ♦ This brilliant book deserves much wider currency among physicians, dietitians, nutritionists, and obesity researchers. The epidemic of overweight and [...]
October 20, 2009
Fish Consumption Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
A recent study suggests that fish intake may modestly increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Harvard researchers examined the dietary habits of over 195,000 study participants over the course of at least 14 years. Increasing consumption of fish and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (mostly from fish) was linked to a higher onset of [...]
August 5, 2009
Dental Problems and Systemic Chronic Disease: A Carbohydrate Connection?
Dentists are considering a return to an old theory that dietary carbohydrates first cause dental diseases, then certain systemic chronic diseases, according to a review in the June 1, 2009, Journal of Dental Research. We’ve known for years that some dental and systemic diseases are associated with each other, both for individuals and populations. For example, gingivitis and periodontal disease are associated [...]
