High-Protein Diet Increases Insulin Resistance

by | Oct 20, 2011 | 2 comments

Eating too much protein – especially in the form of processed meat—can make your body less sensitive to the effects of the hormone insulin, a study presented at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes notes. In this study of more than 27,000...

Drug Shortages-Are You at Risk?

by | Oct 17, 2011 | 1 comment

Recently, AARP published a report on their online news magazine regarding the impending drug shortage that hospitals, clinics and pharmacies are beginning to face. It caught my attention because we discuss pharmaceuticals at length in many of our articles, and the...

Caveman Diet May Be Key for Diabetes Prevention, Cure

by | Sep 25, 2011 | 2 comments

Ditching modern-day foods like pasta, bread and soda may be an underrated strategy for treating diabetes, a review published in the medical journal “Nutrition & Metabolism” reports. The paper notes that modern-day Western diets –rich in carbohydrates and low in...

Salsalate and Diabetics

by | Sep 23, 2011 | 1 comment

I was in a waiting room at a clinic the other day and overheard a woman telling a man she was with (her husband, maybe?) about a treatment her doctor was considering for her.  She apparently wasn’t happy about it .  But mostly because she couldn’t pronounce it. Other...