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Most people don't want to get type 2 diabetes, and they'd like to know how they can prevent it. I have a few suggestions based on the risk factors for the disease.
1. Your risk increases when you're over 40 years old.
One strategy to reduce your risk is to avoid ever being over 40 years old. You might consider... Read more
I recently got an irate letter (yes, an actual letter that was delivered by a mail carrier) from a man who said his wife had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and it's all her fault.
He said he's been telling her for years that she had to lose weight and exercise more but she didn't do what he told her to do, so getting diabetes is... Read more
A comment to a recent sharepost asking how one could make sandwiches without whole grain bread got me to thinking, and I realized that the secret to good diabetes control is often being able to think outside the box.
Richard K. Bernstein, an engineer who was able to reverse his own complications from type 1 diabetes by working out a... Read more
Dieticians keep telling us to eat more "healthy whole grains" and fish for optimal health.
One problem with this prescription is defining more. More than other foods? More than we're already eating? More than we ate last year?
There are, of course, formulas for what the dieticians think we should be eating. This percentage of... Read more
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Almost every day, it seems, we see a "news" article in which one food is named as having great benefit for people with diabetes, or those at risk. For example, blueberries, milk, lean beef, and now pork.
When you look closely, you always find that the "research" was supported by some food marketing group, in the pork... Read more
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