Monday, December 29, 2003

Joslin Diabetes Center - Diabetes, Diabetes Treatment, Diabetes Symptom, Diabetes Research and Diabetes Education.

Joslin Clinic and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) are collaborating to provide our patients the most comprehensive spectrum of multidisciplinary diabetes care in the outpatient and inpatient setting available anywhere.

Friday, December 26, 2003

Yahoo! News - EATING TO LIVE
According to "SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life" (William Morrow, $24.95), some foods will not only improve your life - but may well extend it.

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter: "NutritionData

Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter

NutritionData (ND) generates nutrition facts labels and provides simplified nutritional analyses for all foods and recipes.

ND tells you what's good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs."

Friday, December 19, 2003

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Triple Therapy Better Than Mixed Insulin for Obese Type 2 DM

Dec. 5, 2003 — Combining rosiglitazone, metformin, and insulin aspart improved glucose metabolism in obese type 2 diabetic patients compared with mixed insulin alone, according to the results of a open-label, randomized trial published in the December issue of Diabetes Care

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ASHP Therapeutic Position Statement on Strict Glycemic Control: "The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) supports strict glycemic control in all appropriate patients with diabetes mellitus. Strict glycemic control in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus has been shown to reduce the progression of some of the disease's chronic complications, including nephropathy, retinopathy, and neuropathy, and there are strong indications that such control may reduce the risks associated with macrovascular disease"
Effects of Dietary Intake of Phase 2 Protein Inducers: "The indigenous people of Australia also have a high incidence of type 2 diabetes.[7] Of interest is that a return to a traditional lifestyle for a mere 7 weeks results in major improvement and often complete normalization of the carbohydrate and lipid metabolic abnormalities.[8] Clearly, in this case, environment has interacted with genotype in a positive manner. The change in lifestyle included both more exercise and changes in diet."

The indigenous people of Australia also have a high incidence of type 2 diabetes.[7] Of interest is that a return to a traditional lifestyle for a mere 7 weeks results in major improvement and often complete normalization of the carbohydrate and lipid metabolic abnormalities.[8] Clearly, in this case, environment has interacted with genotype in a positive manner. The change in lifestyle included both more exercise and changes in diet.

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Entrez-PubMed: "Insulin glargine: a systematic review of a long-acting insulin analogue"
Insulin glargine: a systematic review of a long-acting insulin analogue
Diabetes Monitor: Lispro Insulin (Humalog)

Insulin lispro (Humalog) was the first insulin analog. Analogs are modifications of natural insulin, where changes are made in the amino acid sequence of the insulin molecule that affect the duration of action.


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