Type 1 Diabetes Cured

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 23, 2013 | 1 comment

Research from Spanish scientists released in the journal Diabetes has shown, for the first time ever in an animal of its size, that Type 1 diabetes can be cured. This study gives great hope that soon type 1 diabetes can be cured in humans and may help fight the battle...

Easy Way to Lower Cholesterol and Improve Diabetes

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 18, 2013 | 5 comments

As people make strides to improve their cholesterol numbers and overcome diabetes, they are faced with a dilemma regarding exercise. Should you really hit it hard, or take the slow and easy route? Compounding the issue is that people who are already struggling with...

Good News for Type 2 Diabetes

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 11, 2013 | 4 comments

The numbers for Type 2 diabetes in the US have been very grim in recent decades, with a startling number of people being newly diagnosed every year. It is continuing to occur at an exponential rise, even among people who are younger and younger. However, the prognosis...

Does Your Birth Order Caused High Blood Pressure and Diabetes?

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 10, 2013 | 2 comments

In a very interesting study recently released in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Australian researchers looked at blood pressure and insulin sensitivity of many groups of siblings. What they found might surprise you. Could it really be that your...

How Type 2 Diabetes Causes Heart Attack

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 4, 2013 | 5 comments

When newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes patients are counseled, one of the first complications of the disease that is listed is heart attack. Studies have shown for years that the people with diabetes are at more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those...

High Blood Pressure and Diabetes Cause This Common Cancer

by Jodi Knapp | Mar 1, 2013 | 2 comments

Having high blood pressure or type 2 diabetes has shown to be a harbinger of bad events down the road, especially when fighting a specific kind of cancer. There is especially one kind of cancer that seems to not just be triggered by these metabolic diseases, but it...