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My doctor has put me on a low potassium diet. I need a chart for foods I can eat. I only received a list of what I cannot eat. I am limited to 2000 milligrams of sodium a day and do not know how to count them. Thank you, Nancy Dear Nancy, If your physician has put you on a low-sodium diet, this could indicate
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Dear Nadia, I am a type 2 diabetic who uses medication and insulin. At night, I take cholesterol medication and check my blood pressure. My cholesterol is in the normal range. I use vegetable margarine for my toast, and I want to know if it’s the best spread to use? Ilyaas Malik Dear Ilyaas, If you are on cholesterol medication, it means you need to
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Keep a close eye on this story. It has two elements necessary for creating a lot of buzz: a celebrity and his unconventional “cure” for a disease. People magazine reports that comedian Drew Carey says he has stopped his type 2 diabetes – and the need to take any medications for it – by shedding 80 pounds through a diet in which he almost totally
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Pearls From The Diabetes Health Archives
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A gluten-free diet in the first 12 months of life does not lower the risk of later developing type 1 diabetes in children who have a family history of the disease, says a German study. Previous studies had suggested that babies whose diets included gluten in their first months of life might be more likely to develop type 1 than youngsters whose diets did not.
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If you, like many people with diabetes, are trying to lose weight, you might be more successful if you cut back on carbohydrates for just two days a week instead of undertaking an unrelenting low-calorie diet. A recent report found that women who banished carbohydrates for two days a week and ate normally the rest of the time lost about nine pounds in four months,
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A new diabetes-friendly sugar, proven to help reduce sugar absorption, will soon be added to popular breads and cereals. “Sugir” is real sugar that contains an all-natural, tasteless additive called Emulin. Emulin, a patented formulation of compounds found in fruits, prevents the body from absorbing about a third of ingested sugar. A previous study showed that Emulin blocks the absorption of sugar by more than
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Diabetes and Cultural Differences
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Recently, we published an article by Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, titled “From Old Dogmas to New Realities. “In the article, Hope voiced the opinion that a low carb diet is not the only dietary option for people with diabetes, and that, in fact, such thinking is an “old dogma.” In response, we received a number of strongly worded comments advocating the low carb diet
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