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New Nutritional Scoring System: NuVal Rating

Posted: Monday, August 23, 2010

Consumers' growing demand for nutritional guidance spurred the creation of NuVal. NuVal's labeling system evaluates foods based upon more than 30 nutritional attributes, including positive ones such as fiber and negative ones such as saturated fat. It uses a mathematical formula to assign products a score on a scale of 1 to 100.

Brain Surgery Prevents Onset and Progression of Diabetes

Posted: Monday, August 23, 2010

Seven of 10 patients in trial who underwent microvascular decompression surgery experience significant improvement in glucose control.

Nutritional Labeling and Point-of-Purchase Signs Work to Make Better Choices

Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010

With over 30% of U.S. adults obese, the significant adverse health effects of obesity (including heart disease and diabetes) are widespread throughout the country. Two published studies shed light on behaviors regarding food choices and good nutrition and report on how nutritional labeling and point-of-purchase signs are influencing healthy food choices.

Implanted Wireless Glucose Sensor Lasts 520 Days

Posted: Monday, August 09, 2010

American bioengineers have demonstrated that an implanted glucose sensor with potential to transform the management of diabetes has passed a crucial test: the device they developed worked continuously for over a year, without showing signs of "tissue encapsulation" seen in trials with other similar devices.

Texting Improves Treatment Adherence and Improved Glucose Levels

Posted: Monday, August 09, 2010

Pilot study supports adolescent diabetes patients through personalized text messages.

Improved Blood Sugar Control Linked to Cashew Seed Extract

Posted: Sunday, July 25, 2010

Adding cashew seed extract to one's diet may help lower diabetes risk, according to published findings.

Diabetes Patients Should Avoid the Heat

Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2010

Hot weather and diabetes can make for a potentially dangerous combination, according to a Mayo Clinic presentation. The ability to sweat in the heat can be impaired in some patients with diabetes. Also, glucose strips and medications can become ineffective.

Antioxidants Increase Insulin Sensitivity

Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010

A diet high in antioxidants may help increase insulin sensitivity and enhance the effects of metformin, according to a small study.

Potential for Diabetes Patients to Create Their Own Insulin

Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Researchers have used a unique collection of pancreas specimens taken from patients who died soon after diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes to show that they respond to the ongoing process of destruction by inducing their islet cells to proliferate.

Insulin Peptide Points to a Solution for Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have identified the precise protein fragment, or peptide, that can trigger diabetes in mice.

The finding, supports an emerging theory about the origins of autoimmunity, and may lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in humans.