Artificial Sweeteners Could Raise Risk Of Diabetes | Daily Mail Online

Artificial sweeteners could raise risk of diabetes | Daily Mail Online

At the end of the two weeks, subjects underwent tests of their glucose response, blood sugar levels, and levels of insulin and gut peptides.
How tea and coffee 'help women with diabetes live longer'
Women with diabetes who drink a cup of tea or coffee a day can expect to live a longer life, research suggests.
Experts found that regular caffeine consumption was linked to women living longer compared to those who drank no caffeine at all.
The research, presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in Lisbon, found no such association between caffeine and men with diabetes.
Experts from the University of Porto looked at caffeine and death rates in more than 3,000 men and women with diabetes.
The people in the study reported their caffeine intake from coffee, tea, and soft drinks over 24 hours at the point they enrolled in the research.
They were the tracked for the following 11 years.
The researchers found that women who consumed the equivalent of one cup coffee a day were 51 per cent less likely to die during the 11 years, increasing to 57 per cent for those two cups, and 66 per cent for more.
Analysis showed that coffee-drinking was linked to a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly cardiovascular disease, while women who consumed more caffeine from tea appeared to be less likely to die from cancer.
The authors said: 'Our study showed a dose-dependent protective effect of caffeine consumption on all-cause mortality among women.
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Bioengineers create more durable, versatile wearable for diabetes monitoring

Bioengineers create more durable, versatile wearable for diabetes monitoring
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a wearable diagnostic biosensor that can detect three interconnected, diabetes-related compounds -- cortisol, glucose and interleukin-6 -- in perspired sweat for up to a week without loss of signal integrity. The team envisions that their wearable devices will contain a small transceiver to send data to an application installed on a cellphone. Credit: University of Texas at Dallas
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the sweat they've put into their work on a wearable diagnostic tool that measures three diabetes-related compounds in microscopic amounts of perspiration.
"Type 2 diabetes affects so many people. If you have to manage and regulate this chronic problem, these markers are the levers that will help you do that," said Dr. Shalini Prasad, professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. "We believe we've created the first diagnostic wearable that can monitor these compounds for up to a week, which goes beyond the type of single use monitors that are on the market today."
In a study published recently in Scientific Reports, Prasad and lead author Dr. Rujute Munje, a recent bioengineering PhD graduate, describe their wearable diagnostic biosensor that can detect three interconnected compounds - cortisol, glucose and interleukin-6 - in perspired sweat for up to a week without loss of signal integrity.
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Diabetes Research: Groundbreaking Diabetes News of 2017 | Reader's Digest

Kelsey Mcardle/Rd.com, shutterstockHow's this for a scary statistic: Nearly 800,000 new cases of cancer are attributed to type 2 diabetes and having a high BMI, per research this year in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology . (The study looked at cancers from 2012.) While there are other common causes of cancer , the researchers say that diabetes was to blame for one-quarter of liver cancers and nearly four out of 10 cases of endometrial cancers. High insulin and blood sugar levels, as well as chronic inflammation may be one common underpinning of these conditions.
Kelsey Mcardle/Rd.com, shutterstock Imagine fewer finger pricks to take your blood sugar. That day is here, thanks to Dexcom's Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM). Their G5 mobile app for Android was FDA-approved in July 2017, which allows you to stay on top of your blood sugar continuously. CGM takes a reading every five minutes to gain insight on how your glucose levels are trending. "You only need to check your blood sugar twice a day to calibrate the machine. It substantially decreased the number of finger sticks for patients with diabetes, which takes so much of the burden away," says Billings. "In a trial that we were involved in (DIAMOND), we found that CGM can help improve blood sugar control. After adding this CGM to the patients' treatment regimen, both patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes saw significant lowering of their hemoglobin A1c (a measure of someone's average blood glucose over three months)," she adds.
Your diet plays an even bigger role than you thought
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Physicians praise online diabetes prevention program: Finally

Physicians praise online diabetes prevention program: Finally
Care teams have been stymied for years in their attempts to get upstream of diabetes, in large part because of a lack of tools that work with patients lifestyles. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is conducting a one-year pilot of an online diabetes prevention program (DPP), which enables patients to participate when and where it is most convenient for them. Physicians are thrilled.
As physicians, we want to do whats best for our patients. We got into this to help people, right? said Timothy E. Graham, MD, an endocrinologist and a physician champion of Intermountains diabetes prevention efforts. One of the biggest frustrations for physicians is when we can diagnose a condition that we know has high stakes for the patient, but we dont have effective toolswhether its a medicine or a program or a referralto help the patient. Prediabetes has been lingering in that horrible space for almost a decade, and now we have the ability to connect patients to services that are truly impactful.
About 200 patients are enrolled in the one-year program , designed by San Francisco-based Omada Health Inc., which builds on features that have been proven effective in the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions in-person National DPP . The Omada program complements in-person DPPs by removing many of the barriers to participation.
Each participant in the Omada program receives a welcome package that includes a wireless scale with an embedded cellular chip linked to the patients profile. The scale requires no setup Continue reading

Is a Vegetarian Diet Better for Diabetes?

Research suggests that well planned, vegetarian diets that are rich in whole grains, fiber, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated fats can help improve blood sugar and may even prevent diabetes. Here, a registered dietitian and type 1 tells you what you need to know.
Vegetarian diets are becoming more mainstream. The words meatless Monday, vegan and plant based are the new buzzwords in today’s nutrition frenzy. But you might be skeptical to try a vegetarian diet if you have diabetes fearing you will consume too many carbohydrates and no animal protein to stabilize your blood sugars.
Eggs, cheese, meat, fish and other protein sources have long been considered “safe” for people with diabetes because they don’t raise blood sugars as do carbohydrates found in grains, fruits, and legumes—all cornerstones of the vegetarian diet. But it turns out, following a meatless Monday or vegetarian approach may be beneficial to your waistline as well as your diabetes control.
New research points to the protective effects a plant-based diet can have on people at risk of developing diabetes or with existing diabetes. Vegetarians and vegans tend to live longer and have a lower risk of developing diabetes as well as other chronic conditions like heart disease, hypertension, certain types of cancers and obesity.
According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recent position paper, a well-planned vegetarian diet that is rich in whole grains, nuts, and soy, seeds, fruits, and veggies can be nutritionally adequate and suitable for all life stages. The key word here is well-planned. Vegetari Continue reading