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Dr. Frank Varon

posted 11/29/2007, comments (0)

Just what the doctor ordered for the Holidays: Moderate alcohol intake

A just-published research study in the December issue of Diabetes Care evaluated the effects of moderate alcohol intake on blood glucose levels at fasting and postprandial states. The study used 109 type-2 diabetes patients to receive either 150 ml of wine (13 grams alcohol) or nonalcoholic diet beer (control) each day for a three-month period of... Read more Chevron

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Dr. Frank Varon

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posted 11/25/2007, comments (0)

Study on Disturbed eating behavior in type 1 women

A recent study in November's Diabetes Care found disturbed eating behaviors are far more prevalent in women than men and are more prevalent for those who have diabetes than the average population. Disturbed Eating Behaviors (DEB), which includes sub-threshold and full-syndrome eating disorders (ED's) and mild eating disturbances,... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/24/2007, comments (0)

The Diet Myth is Dead...

... type-2 diabetes has not been caused by what we have been eating but by how much we have been overeating. http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/0803717a.html The free abstract from this citation... Objective:To investigate whether a diet with a reduced glycaemic index (GI) has effects on appetite, energy intake,... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/16/2007, comments (0)

NIH finds increases in type 2 diabetes in youth

The National Institutes (NIH) of Health and National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disorders (NIDDK) have studied and just released estimates of the incidence of type 2 diabetes in youth. There findings coincided with World Diabetes Day. About 154, 000 youth in the U.S. have diabetes. From data originating from the Centers... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/15/2007, comments (16)

The Trouble with Fructose

“Fructose is a strange sugar.” That’s what I wrote here in July 2006, and I still think that it’s strange. But I didn’t know the half of it when I wrote my earlier article about fructose. I didn’t know why it was so strange. And in this case the "why" is crucial. Fructose is strange because it is the sweetest... Read more Chevron

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