Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in people with diabetes. In those with type 1 diabetes as young as 20-39 years old, the risk of dying from a cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event is five times higher than those without diabetes. This population group benefits more from exercise than an average person does.

Type 1 diabetics who exercise regularly reduces his/her risk for cardiovascular disease -according to a new study published in the August edition of Diabetes Care.
Researchers in Austria and Germany studied more than 23,000 youngsters between the ages of 3 and 18, and found that the more physically active youngsters were less at risk for high diastolic blood pressure and lipid profiles, and had lower blood glucose levels.

They specifically found that the more the youngsters physically exercised, their triglycerides and high cholesterol decreased from 41.2 percent for youngsters who did not exercise, to 36 percent to those who exercised once or twice a week. Additionally, it was found that their high cholesterol and triglycerides fell to 34.4 percent for those who have physically exercised three or more times weekly.

Physical exercise did not include school sports; it included regularly exercising for a period of 30 minutes per day.

30 minutes of daily exercise. Keep that in mind.

Also, there is a Canadian study that included the findings from death records of more than nine million adults offers somewhat grim news: a Type 2 diabetic may experience cardiovascular problems 15 years sooner than a non-diabetic.

The results were broken down into expected risks for different genders and age groups. For instance, women with Type 2 diabetes are considered to be a moderate risk for cardiovascular disease by the age of 46, compared to the age of 62 for non-diabetic women. Complete results are here.

While the study is interesting and improving your cardiovascular health is always recommended, panic is not recommended. After all, these results are from death records, not living diabetics. Perhaps those people did not treat their diabetes properly, or did not follow healthy eating and exercise patterns. With the determination to be healthy, there is no reason to believe you can’t live a long, healthy, happy life.

Another is that of the connection of obesity to diabetes. There is cross-treatment of drugs for obesity and diabetes, which is nothing new, and researchers are excited about another find. The new drug is designed to help reduce obesity in patients, which in turn may now seem to help stave off heart problems in Type 2 diabetics.

The author writes about Snacks For Diabetics and blogs at http://www.daily-diabetic.com/.

Over the past decades, much research has been made on type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This research has brought fascinating advances that have made a great impact on the way the disease is understood. Now, it also gives more insight and real progress towards the methods by which it can be cured.

However, much of this new knowledge is fairly unknown to most people. And while there currently is no way to fully cure diabetes, several methods of treatment have proved successful in controlling and treating both types. Type 1 diabetes researchers have made a number of significant advancements with several potential cures being successfully used to stop the progression of the disease.

For type 1 diabetes patients, a pancreatic transplant can free one of the need for insulin injections that he used to routinely have to put up with. In most cases, though, the patient still needs to take immunosuppressive medications.

Another potential cure is the use of exogenous beta cells to treat diabetes. However, in most cases a side effect of the patient’s immune system attacking these cells has occurred causing the need for long term use of immunosuppressive medications. A similar method of tissue transplant to treat both type 1 and type 2 diabetes has been used involving stem cells. While this method has a lot of potential as a cure for diabetes, the problem of the immune system attacking transplanted cells also applies to stem cells.

Then, there is also the use of nanotechnology. With this new innovation, microscopic sensors are implanted into the body. These sensors routinely monitor the patient’s blood sugar levels and can inject insulin into the blood stream to control diabetes. A patient can eventually be free from the disease without having to resort to an operation or having to use long term medication. However, though nanotechnology is really a leap forward in terms of treating diabetes, much of it remains in the theoretical aspect. Scientists still have to make more research on the technology.

Lastly, there is the amazing possibility of reversing type 1 diabetes through the use of anti-CD3 antibodies and pro-insulin peptides. When used together, these therapeutic medications have been proven effective in reversing type 1 diabetes in animal tests. The reversals are long lasting – with some lasting for over a year! Clinical trials for humans are the next step.

What makes this last treatment the most promising as a potential diabetes cure is that it teaches the body’s immune system to tolerate beta cells in the pancreas rather than attacking them.

Much research still needs to be done in the area of diabetes cures. However, at the rate treatments are currently progressing, it seems likely that a cure for diabetes is not so far down the road.

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In the controversy that erupted when the world found out that a 63 year old woman was on her seventh month pregnancy after using IVF to conceive. Although giving birth by women over 50 has increased 24 times over in the last few years, many doctors and laypersons protest, claiming that it is not safe for mother or baby.

The National Health Service currently refuses free IVF treatment to women over 39, forcing would-be mothers over that age to pay for private treatment. However, the HFEA figures reveal that doctors are not adhering to an “unofficial” guideline to refuse treatment to women over the age of 49. The guideline is intended to limit the potential health risks to mother and child.

Amid mounting concern that IVF is being used to extend fertility beyond the limits of what is ethically acceptable, a leading expert yesterday called on the HFEA, which currently allows clinicians to decide on eligibility for IVF, to set an age limit for those who want the treatment.

Also, there is an increased risk of deadly complications such as heart attacks and diabetes, but is this a reason for a woman to give up the dream of motherhood, even if it is ‘late’ in life? Don’t potential complications exist for every birth, regardless of age? (Childbirth is still one of the leading worldwide causes of women’s deaths.) What do you think? Does potential reward outweigh the potential risk?

The effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men, the effect being more pronounced in older women (over age 65). Diabetes was associated with a significant increase in the risk of death and hospitalization in patients with heart failure. Women over age 65 had worse outcomes than men or younger women.

That’s what the new research at University of Alabama at Birmingham (led by Ali Ahmed, M.D., MPH, associate professor in the division of gerontology, geriatrics and palliative care and director of UAB’s Geriatric Heart Failure Clinic and Geriatric Heart Failure Research) is telling us: “Our results suggest that heart failure patients should be thoroughly evaluated for the presence of diabetes and if it is present, should be intensively managed based on published guidelines. Further studies should test current interventions and develop new ones to reduce the adverse effects of diabetes in heart failure patients in general, and among older adults in particular.”

Another one is that the death rate of men with diabetes has dropped significantly (in line with the overall decline of the death rate for all Americans), while the death rate for women with diabetes did not decline at all.

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Diabetes is one of the biggest money-making diseases on the planet. More than 17 million people in the U.S are currently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. 2,200 more are diagnosed every day. Twenty years ago, type 2 diabetes was a disease that was often called “Maturity Onset” because it was commonly seen in patients over 50. Today, our children are being diagnosed.

There are two main causes for type 2 diabetes. There is either an inadequate supply of insulin being secreted by beta cells in the pancreas or cells in the body are unable to utilize the insulin that is made (insulin resistance).

With type 2 diabetes comes complications. Blindness, amputations, kidney failure, and heart disease are just a few. Pharmaceutical companies make millions daily from the diabetic population. Doctors make money by prescribing drugs to diabetic patients of which many have side-effects that are worse than the disease itself. Thousands die every year from the complications of diabetes.

Millions of dollars are raised every year for a cure for diabetes. Not for type 2. Type 2 diabetes counts for nearly 95% of all cases. Although type 1 is considered more serious, only about 5% of the diabetes population has type 1 diabetes. Yet there is no cure made available for either one. The public is told that a cure is near, that tests on rats suggest a cure could be available in the next decade or so…but what about now?

What would really happen if a man-made cure was made available to the public? Dialysis clinics and entire wings of hospitals would shut down. Pharmaceutical companies would lose billions. Doctors that “specialize” in the treatment of diabetes would be out of a career. Not to mention the money lost in treating the complications of blindness, heart disease and amputations. There is just too much at stake to offer a cure for something that creates so much revenue through so many avenues.

Kevin Trudeau helped expose our crooked healthcare system and in the face of deadly chemical drugs, reignited our faith in natural cures. Herbs, plants, and seeds that have been a staple for many diets all over the world are now sought out for their healing qualities. Times are changing as people from every nation are turning to alternative medicine and gentle herbal remedies, especially for chronic diseases such as diabetes.

Manufactured in Canada and available to the public since 1998, Eleotin is the natural diabetes cure mentioned in Kevin Trudeau’s ‘Natural Cures’ series, scientifically studied in the book ‘Bitter-Sweet Profits’, and seen in many others such as ‘The Natural Cures for Diabetes’.

Eleotin stimulates and restores the basic health of the pancreas. It increases healthy regeneration of beta cells in the pancreas and increases normal insulin secretion. It corrects the causes of type 2 diabetes.

In the book ‘Bitter-Sweet Profits’, a study was performed using Eleotin on 80 severe type 2 diabetics during an 8-month test. Results of that study proved that 70% of those test patients had reversed their type 2 diabetes to normal or near-normal levels within that time frame. The Nanjing Diabetes Association in China calls Eleotin “an ideal cure”.

Prescription drug control vs. gentle herbal cure.

So, can a natural herbal supplement be the answer for type 2 diabetes? For many Eleotin users that answer is a definite “Yes!”

Emily Saar is a recovered type 2 diabetic as a result of using Eleotin and the owner of http://www.BetaTherapy.com. Visit to learn more about Eleotin and the truth about diabetes.

According to a survey conducted by The NPD Group, the growing concerns about obesity and type-2 diabetes is driving low-sugar, sugar-free or sugar substituted products forward. About 70 percent of adult Americans want to cut down or avoid sugar completely, with 40 percent admitting they check food labels regularly for sugar content.

44 percent of American homemakers are extremely or very concerned about serving foods with sugar, with over 50 percent of consumers noting they are aware of and concerned about high fructose corn syrup (one of the most commonly-used sweeteners today). All of these concerns are giving rise to more consumption of foods and beverages that are low-sugar, sugar-free, or contain sugar substitutes.

Although according to Harry Balzer, “There’s little doubt that Americans right now are increasingly concerned about sugar consumption. But we’ve been here before; back in the 1980s, nearly 60 percent of Americans expressed concern about the sugar they were consuming, before declining during the early 1990s. I suspect we’ll see the same trend during the next 10 years.”

Honestly, I’ve always been apprehensive on sugar substitutes – I’ve always felt that they are chemically wrong and will do more harm than good. If I would watch out for my sugar consumption, I’d go for low-sugar or go totally for sugar-free products. It can also be a danger with respect to weight, metabolism and diabetes that is.

One sugar substitute that has always been in the limelight is aspartame – a low-calorie sweetener used to sweeten a wide variety of low- and reduced-calorie foods and beverages, including low-calorie tabletop sweeteners.

Aspartame – which is commercially popular – is composed of two amino acids (aspartic acid and phenylalanine) as the methyl ester (L-alpha-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester) and also popular because of its implication to cancer.

Can aspartame really cause cancer?

Clinical oncology dietitian Dena McDowell, MS, RD answers that very question in a scrutinizing review of aspartame.

Bottom line is that:
Although research is ongoing, products containing aspartame are generally considered to be safe. As long as consumption of aspartame is within the ADI, no chronic health issues should be seen as a result of ingestion.

Like in anything else, moderation is the key. Whether it be sugar per se or any sugar substitute, if you overdo the intake it will do more harm than good.

That been said, I really do not care anymore whether it is sugar or a sugar substitute in my food as long as I eat moderately, I’ll be safe even if I have diabetes or not.

The author writes about Snacks For Diabetics and blogs at http://www.daily-diabetic.com/.