- Eat More Foods That Grow on Trees and Plants Now four years after changing our diet and lifestyle, I feel so much healthier overall as we eat nearly all of our food from trees and plants rather than those manufactured in plants.
- Diabetes Susceptibility Gene Identified: Tomosyn-2 Regulates Insulin Secretion Genetic analyses and comparisons of obese diabetes-resistant and diabetes-susceptible mouse strains revealed a single amino acid difference that effectively releases the brake on insulin secretion and avoids diabetes.
- Neural Stem Cell Transplant May Tackle Diabetes A patient's neural stem cells could be used as an alternative source of the beta cells needed for a regenerative treatment for diabetes. The research reveals how harvesting stem cells could overcome a lack of beta cell transplants from donors.
- Ron Rosedale – Neurodegenerative Disease, Hormones and Diet Dr Ron Rosedale is an internationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine. Very few physicians have had such consistent success in helping diabetics to eliminate or reduce their need for insulin.
- Health-e-Tip: Make Your Home a Healthy Environment Your environment should support your healthy lifestyle. Create a positive environment in your kitchen with how you stock and organize it. Do an inventory of your kitchen, and then do the following:
- Head For Your Dreams! "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." - Dale Carnegie
- An Amazing Difference We recently received an email from a woman who has a young son with type one diabetes and Epilepsy. She has been transitioning to the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle and made the following comments:
- Injection-free Treatment for Type 1 and 2 Diabetes Patients? A compound found in garlic, lowered blood glucose levels in mouse models of both types 1 and 2 diabetes. The orally administered complex is offering hope for an injection-free treatment for people with type 1 diabetes.
- Natural Compound Helps Reverse Diabetes in Mice Researchers have restored normal blood sugar metabolism in diabetic mice using a compound the body makes naturally. It may one day be possible to take the compound much like a daily vitamin as a way to treat or even prevent type 2 diabetes.
- Life is a Do-Over - Research Summary Many health conditions are preventable by living a healthy lifestyle. You cannot control your genetic makeup, age, or gender. But by controlling your health, you can lower your risk of future disease & help manage & fight already formed disease
- Health-e-Tip: 8 ways to Save Money While Eating Healthy Most people consider it common knowledge that healthy food is expensive and unhealthy food is cheap. But for most people it does not need to be this way. You may be able to save money.
- Health-e-Recipe: Moroccan Vegetables This recipe looks absolutely delicious! We have not tried it yet, but we thank Ailsa from Canada for sharing this one. We took the liberty of eliminating the carrots to keep within the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle.
- Keep Dancing! "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." - Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope your Valentine’s day is filled with the love of family and close friends. It is our desire that it also be filled with delicious, healthy food that keeps your blood sugars under control and your day running smoothly.
- Chocolate: Candy or Cutting Edge Medicine? the consumption of chocolate, or its active constituents (cocoa, flavan-3-ols), reduces a broad range of risk factors for cardiovascular disease including insulin resistance.
- "Something is Wrong. Your Son is Getting Better." We quit going to the pediatric endocrinologist who diagnosed Gabriel with type one diabetes after he called us one day to tell us, and I quote... "Something is wrong. Your son is getting better."
- Diabetes Mystery: Why Are Type 1 Cases Surging? For reasons that are completely mysterious, the incidence of type 1 diabetes has been increasing at rates that range from 3 to 5 percent a year. This illness has the potential to disable or kill people so much earlier in their lives.
- Strawberry Flavonoid May Limit Diabetes Complications but Glycemic Index Too High for Diabetic Alkaline Lifestyle The research, suggests that fisetin may reduce diabetes complications by protecting nerve cells from toxic insults and by direct effects of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.
- B12 Deficiency Linked with Brain Shrinkage in Later Life For some time now there has been specific interest in the role the B12 plays in brain function. In particular, B12 deficiency is believed to play a potential role in the declining brain function (cognitive impairment) often seen in aging.
- Diabetes Holistic Health Program Offers Ongoing Support Katherine Holden’s upcoming “Diabetes Holistic Health Group Coaching Program” may be able to help you to achieve normal average blood sugar levels and even to reverse type 2 diabetes, with ongoing support