by Jodi Knapp | Dec 20, 2020
Shingles is not just a skin rash—it can become extremely painful with pain that lasts for years. As you know, it is caused by the varicella-zoster (chickenpox) virus. Type-2 diabetes is an inflammatory disease that spikes blood sugar levels. What could these two...
by Jodi Knapp | Dec 2, 2020
For decades, type-2 diabetics have been told to avoid high-carbohydrate foods. After all, it’s been proven to spike blood sugar levels. Scientists even made an index called the glycemic index to rank foods you should eat and avoid. But a new study in the journal...
by Jodi Knapp | Nov 22, 2020
Too often when talking about healthy living, we have to give up on the food and things we love the most. So I love it when new studies come out proving the most delicious things to be healthy. A new study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry reveals a...
by Christian Goodman | Nov 4, 2020
Here at Blue Heron Health News, we spend a lot of time talking about diseases, their treatments, their causes, and their consequences for disease sufferers. But it is not often that researchers study the effects of disease on the people taking care of...
by ShellyManning | Oct 27, 2020
Cheers! Although this drink is very popular, it’s generally considered unhealthy, especially for people suffering type 2 diabetes, due to its high sugar level. A recent Danish study reveals that drinking it moderately is actually protective against type 2 diabetes—and...
by Julissa Clay | Oct 25, 2020
One of the main frustrations for vertigo sufferers is that the condition often returns even after professional medical treatment. A new study in the Journal of Neurology shows what makes us more vulnerable to a reoccurrence of vertigo and what we can do to prevent it....