High Blood Pressure and Diabetes Bankrupting This ONE State

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 24, 2012 | 10 comments

Typically, the states that have mountains, lakes, and abundant state parks are the ones with the best overall health of residents, but not in this one western US state. And the cost of “treating” only two of the myriad of diseases is running in the hundreds of...

Surprising Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Discovered

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 22, 2012 | 12 comments

Controversies swirl regarding whether or not dairy is good for a person. But recent studies looking at preventing diabetes show that it’s not the whole dairy group that is important; rather, what kind of dairy food you are consuming that makes the difference. A study...

Type 2 Diabetes Cured Using This Cheap Spice

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 12, 2012 | 41 comments

People who are right on the cusp of developing type 2 diabetes have a tasty way to prevent developing full-blown diabetes, according to University researchers in Thailand. What’s unusual with the results of this study is that this spice helped every single person who...

One Drink Raises High Blood Pressure and Heart Attack Risk Drastically

by Christian Goodman | Aug 10, 2012 | 44 comments

A new study from Harvard exposed a very common drink as a major contributor to high blood pressure, stroke and heart attacks. What’s worse, other risk factors skyrocketed with just 2 of those drinks per day as well, such as pancreatic cancer (87%), diabetes (44%) and...

How High Blood Pressure Damages Eyes in Diabetics

by Jodi Knapp | Jul 22, 2012 | 5 comments

Diabetics have been told for years that diabetes can and does cause vision loss, but a study recently out of UGA College of Pharmacy showed the damage to be directly tied to high blood pressure, another known condition to plague diabetics. Researchers found that...

Top 5 Inflammatory Foods to Avoid

by Jodi Knapp | Jul 17, 2012 | 60 comments

Inflammation is one of the main causes behind most modern diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, arthritis, cardiovascular disease etc. You hear daily about various anti-inflammatory and antioxidant foods and supplements recommended to take to reduce inflammation...