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Diabetes and insulin resistance

Heart attacks heart represent 60% and stroke by 25% of deaths in people with diabetes. A 1998 study reported that patients with type 2 diabetes and no history of heart disease have the same risk of a heart attack at age seven than non-diabetics with heart disease.

Insulin resistance in the long run, even without type 2 diabetes, appears to have significant harmful effects on the heart. This condition occurs when insulin levels are normal to high, but the body is unable to use insulin to regulate blood sugar metabolism and keep it for energy. In such cases, the body compensates for this by increasing insulin levels (hyperinsulinemia), which in turn increases triglycerides and lowers HDL cholesterol. Normally, insulin stimulates the release of two substances, endothelin and nitric oxide, which are important to keep open the arteries elastic. Insulin resistance can cause an imbalance in these substances. [For more information, see chapter egalenia encyclopedia on Diabetes: Type I and Diabetes: Type II]. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like to eat pumpkin, either mashed, boiled or accompanied by other vegetables, you must know that in addition to enjoying a rich, sweet food, you can take advantage of the many properties that this food has to look after your health, because it seems that whatever ailment we have, the pumpkin can be improved. This is due to its high content of vitamins A and B (niacin, thiamin) and C, as well as minerals, which include cobalt, boron, zinc, calcium, magnesium, iron and potassium.

Among its properties can include:

- It is ideal for diabetics, because it regulates blood sugar.

- It also has diuretic properties, which is beneficial in case of fluid retention. Its cleansing properties also help us to cleanse our body and improve intestinal problems.

- The beta-carotene it contains (the elements that give it its characteristic orange) Read the rest of this entry »

Still do not know the exact cause of type 1 diabetes, but international researchers have found a link between the disorder of blood glucose and a network of immune system genes.
Through an association study of the entire genome, the researchers found that a certain group of genes that reacts in response to viral infection was present in both rats and humans, and that these same genes were also associated with susceptibility to diabetes type 1.

“The diseases arising as a result of many genetic and environmental factors through networks of genes that cause tissue damage,” said Dr. Stuart Cook, author of the study, group director of molecular and cellular cardiology Science Center Clinical Medical Research Council and professor of clinical and molecular cardiology at Imperial College London.
“We use a method to identify the central command of the important control points of a network of genes of inflammation. This led us to discover hundreds of new genes that may cause diabetes, and a major control gene that controls the entire network” said Cook.

He added that one gene belongs to a class of genes that might be a good target for drug therapy in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a chronic disease, as is well known, can not be cured, but treated to be endured in a better way. Acupuncture, this range of traditional Chinese medicine, also has answers to this issue.

Following the conventions of TCM, diabetes is closely related to dysfunction of the lung, spleen and kidney. That is why acupuncture in the hands of specialists, who can click on the appropriate fields to treat different problems, could be a valuable aid for the diabetes patient.

For example, some of the symptoms can be treated by acupuncture in diabetes include thirst, polyphagia, polyuria, tinnitus, anxiety, night sweats, asthenia, fatigue and headaches, among other symptoms. Also correct insulin secretion. Read the rest of this entry »

Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s breast cancer risk, but the benefits may be lost if sleep deprivation, according to U.S. researchers.

The 5968 study of women in Maryland confirms previous findings that people who exercise regularly are less likely to develop cancer.

But when the researchers looked at women aged 18-65 years, who were in the top half in terms of the amount of exercise per week, they found that sleep seems to play an important role in cancer risk

Those who slept less than seven hours each night were 47 percent higher cancer risk than those who slept more physically active women, researchers reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“We believe it is very interesting and intriguing, although not something that has been widely studied,” James McClain of the National Cancer Institute, part of the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health, said.

McClain, who led the study, says it is not clear exactly how little sleep can make one more susceptible to cancer, “Although the sufficient sleep has always been associated with health,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

diabetes during pregnancy, diabetes nutrition, overweight, overweight children, poor nutrition during pregnancy and fetal programming for Diabetes

Studies have shown that during pregnancy the fetus may acquire certain patterns of behavior related to eating.
This is why it is essential during pregnancy to keep a healthy lifestyle so that the child may grow well. Scientists talk of fetal programming or prenatal imprinting.

During pregnancy the fetus is attached to the body of the mother through the umbilical cord and placenta, through this reach the fetus not only nutrients and supplements needed for growth of the fetus, also came to the hormones, waste products of metabolism.

Many women suffer during pregnancy gestational diabetes diagnosed. Due to hormonal changes in pregnancy the action of insulin is restricted, the blood sugar rises. Read the rest of this entry »