Diabetes is the inability to regulate the amount of sugar, especially glucose in the blood. Blood glucose gives you the energy you need to do things like walking, running, cycling and a host of other daily activities.

When we eat foods blood glucose is produced by the liver. Under normal conditions glucose is regulated by several hormones, including insulin. Insulin is produced in the pancreas along with other important enzymes that help digestion of food. Insulin allows glucose to pass from the blood to the liver, muscle and fat cells where it is used as fuel. Continue reading →

Over the past few years, the fight against the ‘Aids’ and ‘H1N1′ epidemics has been the primary focus of most world governments and, in the process, has put an equally deadly medical condition on the backburner… diabetes. As diabetes statistics reveal, this potentially life-threatening, disease has long passed the epidemic threshold, with millions of people diagnosed with it, and more than half that number living with it but totally unaware they have it.

What Do Diabetes Statistics Reveal?

As per the diabetes statistics recorded and consistently updated by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), an estimated 18.2 million people in the United States (men, women and children) have been diagnosed with diabetes, accounting for almost 6.3% of the total population. What makes these figures more alarming is that in excess of 6 million people in the US now have diabetes but don’t know it. Moreover, according to an ADA forecast, an estimated 44 million people are likely to contract the deadly, disease in the next 15 years.

What’s Behind The Rising Figures?

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It appears that decaffeinated coffee has been linked to lowering your risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a report in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal. It appears one of the benefits happens to be lower risk, good news for all you double shot latte fans out there. However, doctors are still not sure what the cause and effect really is.

But I hope you are thirsty, in the study, the respondents that where least likely to develop diabetes consumed more than five cups of coffee a day over a twelve year period. Good news for those of you already Dueto card at Starbucks, but those of you how don’t drink this much coffee have no fear, there is still hope.

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Perhaps no other disease is as closely linked to nutrition as diabetes. Not only does nutrition play a role in its development, nutrition is also one of the disease’s most powerful treatments.1 Because of this strong and critical connection to nutrition, researchers have carefully studied the use of nutritional supplements in the treatment of the disease. They found that many vitamins, such as vitamin C and the B vitamins, minerals such as chromium, as well as herbs like Gymnema sylvestre, can safely, effectively, and naturally lower blood sugars and help prevent diabetic complications. What is even more important, however, is that these vitamins, minerals, and herbs can be combined together in a scientifically validated diabetic formula to work synergistically.

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