Vitamins For Elderly With Diabetes
Researchers say spending more time in the sun may help elderly people cut their risk of heart disease and diabetes. Sun exposure helps the skin produce vitamin D, a vitamin older people are generally deficient in due to their lifestyles and the aging process. This deficiency contributes to metabolic syndrome, a condition that contributes to both heart disease and diabetes. Because of this, scientists say older people would benefit from more sunshine, although it is still important that they be...
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From Our Experts
Canes and Walkers for Elderly Diabetics
Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com. It's just like I was saying the other day: elderly folks with... Read more »
Nutrition for the Elderly
Healthy eating and physical activity are important lifestyle habits for people of all ages and they are of particular importance for the... Read more »
Treating Diabetes and Depression with Vitamin D
Since alliteration helps us to remember connections, we're lucky that diabetes, depression, and the D vitamin all start with the same... Read more »
Vitamin D for the Heart and Diabetes
Those of us who have diabetes and don't get enough vitamin D can't process cholesterol normally. It builds up in our blood vessels,... Read more »
Type 1 Diabetes and Vitamin D Revisited
Vitamin D is one of the "in vogue" vitamins in metabolic research, most specifically in diabetes. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated... Read more »
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Vitamin D May Cut Diabetes, Heart Disease Risk
People who get enough vitamin D from sunshine and oily fish may cut their risk of diabetes and heart disease by 43 percent, researchers say. A review... Read more »
Vitamin D deficiency ups elderly depression
Dutch researchers say people over age 65 who have low levels of vitamin D may have a higher risk of depression and other mental health disorders.... Read more »
Stress Raises Mental Decline Risk in Elderly Diabetics
Diabetics who are under a lot of stress are more at risk for mental decline as they age, researchers have found. A Scottish study of 900 people found... Read more »
Low levels of vitamin D may double diabetics' heart risks
Low levels of vitamin D may double the risk of heart disease in diabetics, researchers in St. Louis say. The lack of vitamin D means that cholesterol... Read more »
Vitamin B1 may reverse diabetic kidney damage
Taking a daily dose of thiamine--vitamin B1--may reverse kidney disease in people who have Type II diabetes, a new study suggests. Researchers from... Read more »
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