Insulin – Our body’s Biological Gateway Drug?
Insulin is a well-known drug not just in the field of medicine but to us all, and the reason might be its excessive usage by...
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Late Night Eating & Glucose Tolerance
The results of a randomized crossover trial were recently published in Diabetes Care, describing the effects of either an early or late “meal” on glucose tolerance. Nearly 900...
Take A Diet Break, Lose Weight
by Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RDN, FAAP When you first start trying to lose weight, the math is straightforward: To lose 1 pound, create a...
The IDC Mindset
BY DR. BRADLEY BURGESS Social conditioning has brought us to an age where everything must be instant. Whether it’s food, pain relief, text messaging, surfing the...
Change Can be a Good Thing
Image courtesy of Unsplash. Throughout our lives, all of us will experience transitions from one stage of life to the next. Sometimes these are stressful...
100% Fruit Juice Drinks Similar to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
A new study from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health has uncovered that drinking more sugary beverages, whether they contain added or naturally occurring...
Project ECHO Demonstrates Potential For Primary Care Telehealth Programs in Diabetes Care
Participation in a telemonitoring program led by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School was associated with a 44% decrease in inpatient admissions and a more than...
New Study Highlights Protective Effects of Zinc
The connection between zinc deficiency and susceptibility to bacterial infection has long been known, but the exact mechanisms by which zinc provides protection remained elusive....
In Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Control Could Add Years to Life
Controlling four biomarkers could add as much as a decade to life expectancy by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage People with diabetes who hit treatment goals...