Articles Posted in the EveryDay News Category
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Beeting High Blood Pressure?
A study published last month in the online journal Hypertension found that beet juice significantly lowered blood pressure in a small group of individuals with high blood pressure over a 24 hour period. Systolic blood pressure dropped an average of 11.2 mm of mercury, and diastolic by 9.6 mm, within 6 hours of consuming 250 [...]
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Bad News, and Better News for Cola Drinkers
Researchers from Imperial College, London headed a European study of more than 12,000 people with Type 2 diabetes, comparing elements of their diet with 16,000 controls in nine European countries. The data showed that people who drank one can of sweetened soft drink a day increased their risk of diabetes by 22%. And, the risk [...]
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FDA Approves New Drug For Treating Type 2 Diabetes
The FDA recently approved Johnson & Johnson’s once per day pill Invokana as a treatment for type 2 diabetes, the first of a new class of diabetes treatments. Most currently available medications, including insulin, work to either remove glucose from the blood by stimulating more effective storage in cells, or work to limit glucose entering [...]
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Cost of Diabetes in U.S. up 41% in 5 Years
The American Diabetes Association just released the results of its recent study “Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2012.” The costs include both direct (medications, hospitalizations, etc.) care for diabetes, and indirect costs (loss of work, premature death, etc.), and the estimates are striking. The total cost of diabetes in the U.S is [...]
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Happy National Nutrition Month
The National Nutrition Month® 2013 theme, “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day,” encourages personalized healthy eating styles* and recognizes that food preferences, lifestyle, cultural and ethnic traditions and health concerns all impact individual food choices. Registered dietitians play a critical role in helping people eat right, their way, every day. *Based on 2010 Dietary Guidelines [...]
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February is American Heart Month
If you think that heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure needn’t be a concern as long as we control blood glucose think again. Eat heart healthy, get physical activity, see your doctor, don’t smoke, and be healthy!
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A Stink Over Sweeteners
An observational study conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital which found an association in men between non-nutritive (artificial) sweeteners in soft drinks and some types of “blood cancer” (lymphoma and leukemia) caused a brief uproar in the press this week. But, it seems the hospital’s public relations department may have “over sweetened the story”, and [...]
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New Approaches to Treating Type 2 Diabetes; Patient Centered Care
A new joint position statement released this summer by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and published in the journal Diabetes Care titled Management of Hyperglycemia in Type2 Diabetes: A Patient-Centered Approach, promotes a more flexible approach to blood sugar control. Citing undesirable side effects of some diabetes [...]
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Death Risk Higher for Sulfonylureas Compared to Metformin
A study led by Kevin Pantalone, DO, of Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, found that sulfonylureas as a treatment for diabetes raised the risk of death by 50% when compared to metformin. The study looked at the electronic health records of almost 24,000 patients who began treatment for diabetes between October 1998 [...]
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Belviq Gets FDA Approval for Weight Loss
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new weight loss drug, the first in more than ten years. Belviq, by Arena Pharmaceuticals, was cleared for use in adults who are obese or overweight with an associated medical complication such as diabetes. While the drug achieved only modest weight loss in trials, safety concerns [...]
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