Eating diet of processed foods proven to raise cancer risk in women(NewsTarget) Elevated blood sugar can increase
women''s risk of pancreatic, skin, urinary tract, womb and breast cancer, according to a Swedish study published in the journal Diabetes Care. The link between a diet high in junk food and high levels of blood sugar has been solidly established...
Cacao stabilizes blood sugar; chocolate may actually help diabetics(NewsTarget) Obese, diabetic mice whose diet was supplemented with an extract of cacao liquor demonstrated a significant reduction in blood sugar levels in a Japanese study reported in the journal Nutrition. "The dietary intake of food or drinks produced from cacao beans might be beneficial...
FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousandsThe Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the deaths of 80,000 people -- should be pulled from the...
How to Tone Your Blood Vessels and Reduce Your Risk of Heart DiseasePersonal trainers have long praised the health benefits of toning your muscles. Now, medical researchers are looking at a similar approach for toning of your blood vessels. Think of it as getting really buff blood vessels. So, what''s blood-vessel tone got to do with your health? The better the...
Glucosamine-like supplement inhibits multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes(NewsTarget) A glucosamine-like dietary supplement has been found to suppress the damaging autoimmune response seen in multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes mellitus, according to University of California, Irvine health sciences researchers. In studies on mice, Dr. Michael Demetriou and colleagues...
The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease exportsHistory tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this desire for strategic control over territories, the twentieth century was...
The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditionsI''m truly excited to be bringing you this information today about the miraculous healing abilities of aloe vera. First off, in case you don''t know, let me emphasize that I don''t sell aloe vera products of any kind, I haven''t been paid to write this article, and I don''t earn any commissions from the sale...
Black soy beans found to reduce diabetes riskBlack soy beans, attributed to being a possible way to fight obesity and lowering cholesterol, also reduces the risk of diabetes, a new South Korean study says. The study, conducted by researchers at Hanyang University of Seoul, had groups of rats on a high-fat diet -- using both a control group and...
Antipsychotic drugs cause rapid weight gain, abnormal eating behavior(NewsTarget) Researchers may have discovered why certain antipsychotic medications, such as those used to treat schizophrenia, lead to extreme weight gain. A study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences" suggests that these drugs increase the activity of the enzyme AMPK in...
Nopal plant normalizes blood sugar, treats diabetes, boosts insulin sensitivity(NewsTarget) The prickly pear cactus – known as nopal in Mexico – exhibits multiple medicinal effects. As professor of nutrition Winston F. Craig, Ph.D., writes to the HighBeam Encyclopedia, the prickly pear can help with diabetes, lower blood sugar levels and offer other health benefits. Jump...