Vitamins To Help With Diabetes
Taking a daily vitamin D supplement may lower kids' risk of developing Type 1 diabetes, a new report suggests. Researchers analyzed five studies and found that children who received vitamin D supplements were 30 percent less likely to develop diabetes than kids who didn't receive them. Supplementing the vitamin may be especially important for children who live in colder, less sunny environments, experts say, since a lack of sunlight is linked to lower levels of the vitamin.
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Diabetes and Vitamin D: Is There a Connection?
As always, my fellow blogger, Ann Bartlett, keeps me up to date with the latest rumors or information in the diabetes world and pointed me... 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 B1 may protect against Type 1 Diabetes
On Friday, I got my JDRF Research Newsletter and one of the highlights was a study conducted by Yale University and University of Chicago... Read more »
Study Shows Vitamin D Helps Brain Speed up Information Processing
More good news about vitamins and brain function has turned up in a study reported on by the Montreal Gazette. In a story titled, "Vitamin... Read more »
How Bariatric Surgery Can Help Your Diabetes
On the one hand you have bariatric surgery that can take a morbidly obese person and dramatically reduce their weight and their risks for... Read more »
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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 »
Vitamin K slows insulin resistance in older men
A new study has found that vitamin K slows insulin resistance in men, but not in women. Researchers followed 355 non-diabetic men and women between... Read more »
Diabetes problems may be linked to vitamins
A simple vitamin deficiency could be the cause of many of the side effects of diabetes, a new study suggests. British researchers say that diabetics... Read more »
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 E, selenium no help for prostate cancer
The largest trial yet conducted on Vitamin E and selenium has found that the supplements are no help in preventing prostate cancer. The study of more... Read more »
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