Every time the results of some new study are reported with press releases to the popular press, we get a slew of stupid headlines that oversimplify, overstate, or simply misreport the results of the study.
For example, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, known as JAMA, showed that a low-glycemic index diet... Read more
Some people think that when it comes to diabetic complications, the only thing that matters is your hemoglobin A1c level (A1c). This is the test that is supposed to measure your average blood glucose (BG) level over the past several months.
High BG levels form what are called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, and these long-lived products... Read more
*Please note this post is one of humor and should not be interpreted literally*
I've been reading about digestion and came across the comment that digesting our food consumes about 20% of our energy. The muscles in the stomach have to contract, as well as the muscles in the intestines, to push all that food through the digestive system.... Read more
The effect of a gene that increases the risk of heat disease is even stronger in people with diabetes who have poor blood glucose (BG) control, according to a new study.
Previous studies had shown that nondiabetic people with two copies of this gene, located on chromosome 9p21, had higher rates of coronary artery disease than those who didn't.... Read more
The human brain needs a lot of energy to carry out its complex functions. When the body is at rest, so the muscles aren't consuming a lot of energy, it is estimated that the brain uses 20% of the total energy used by the whole body, and a whopping 60% of the glucose (muscles can use fat for a lot of their energy, but the brain can't).
The brain... Read more
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