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Supplements & Vitamins
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Vitamins and Supplements: Taken For Health Or Taken For A Ride?
Does anyone living in our well-nourished country, eating a reasonable diet, really need to take vitamins, minerals, or herbs? Should a person with diabetes take them? If so, which ones and how much? When it comes to supplements, the answers are often unclear.
16 comments - 23 Apr 2008 -
Vitamin D May Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Up to Forty Percent
Previous research has found vitamin D deficiency to be associated with impaired beta cell functioning and insulin resistance, and it's been suggested that vitamin D reduces the risk of type 2.
0 comments - 8 Dec 2007 -
Cinnamon Again: What's It Do For Type 2s?
In a recent three-month study, 43 non-insulin-dependent people with type 2 diabetes were given either a daily dose of 1000 milligrams of cinnamon or a placebo.
16 comments - 15 Nov 2007 -
Omega-3 Lowers Risk of Type 1 Diabetes by 55 Percent in High Risk Group
Old-fashioned cod liver oil supplements in infancy have already been associated with a decreased risk of type 1 diabetes among Norwegian children, who are apparently given the omega-3-rich, albeit nauseating, tonic on a regular basis.
3 comments - 29 Oct 2007 -
Stevia is a natural sweetener made from the leaves of a South American herb, Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, commonly known as sweetleaf or sugarleaf.
6 comments - 24 Oct 2007 -
People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes have about three-quarters less thiamine (vitamin B) in their blood than people without diabetes, according to new research out of Warwick Medical School in England. And it's not because they're not eating enough thiamine.
1 comment - 24 Aug 2007 -
Selenium has been touted as an anti-oxidant that may improve a variety of conditions from cold sores to arthritis; there are even a few ongoing studies that are testing it as a cancer preventative.
0 comments - 3 Aug 2007 -
Cinnamon Puts the Brakes on Post-Pudding Blood Sugar Swings
If you like cinnamon on your pudding, you could be in luck. In a Swedish study of fourteen healthy pudding-eating subjects, a teaspoon of cinnamon sprinkled on top dampened the post-meal blood glucose rises usually seen after a pudding fest.
0 comments - 6 Jul 2007 -
Recent Research on Chromium Supplements: Some Work and Some Don't
In a recent Dutch study, researchers gave either a placebo or a daily dose of 400 micrograms of chromium in the form of chromium yeast to 57 obese, insulin-requiring type 2 patients with A1c’s above eight percent.
0 comments - 24 Jun 2007 -
A company called Sugarest has developed a pill made from the Indian herb Gymnema sylvestre that purports to deaden your ability to taste sugar, thereby rendering sweets tasteless.
0 comments - 15 Jun 2007 -