{"id":4161,"date":"2011-11-20T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:09:43","slug":"vitamin-d-helps-combat-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/20\/vitamin-d-helps-combat-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D Helps Combat Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/20\/vitamin-d-helps-combat-diabetes\/molecular-d\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2659\" title=\"molecular D\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/molecular-D-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Low levels of the \u201cSunshine Vitamin\u201d vitamin D is tied to poor blood sugar control and type 2 diabetes risk, according to researchers from Tufts University.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists investigated blood levels of vitamin D and compared them to risk of developing type 2 diabetes over a 5-year follow-up period. It was found that adults with low levels of vitamin D had a 57% higher risk of developing the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists note that those with existing type 2 diabetes should be screened for low vitamin D levels in order to boost blood glucose control. They note that low vitamin D levels increase inflammation \u2013 a harmful process that makes blood sugar harder to manage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=584\">Simple and natural ways to eliminate type 2 diabetes&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Health,<\/p>\n<p>Jodi Knapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low levels of the \u201cSunshine Vitamin\u201d vitamin D is tied to poor blood sugar control and type 2 diabetes risk, according to researchers from Tufts University. The scientists investigated blood levels of vitamin D and compared them to risk of developing type 2 diabetes over a 5-year follow-up period. It was found that adults with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}