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Categories: Type 2 Food In the News
Tags: fructose hfcs High Fructose Corn Syrup
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I'm interested in the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) debate, which has been in the news again. I believe it probably is a factor in the "epidemic" of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
I thought the Corn Refiners Association's ads this fall (here & here  were a touch defensive. Can you say "the lady doth protest too much"?
What I missed until now was the hilarious YouTube backlash at these ads. Watch this, or this or search for HFCS and peruse dozens of videos.
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Categories: Food Real Life
Tags: Black Soy Beans Obesity Soup
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Sometimes I feel like the Grocery gods have it in for me. I go to the store, armed with a list and a meal planned out in my head, only to find they're out of key ingredients. Like the time I had my pregnant heart set on faux-tatoes only to discover they're out of cauliflower. Or when I had to have a pizza and they were out of whole wheat Boboli crusts. And it seems like every other trip they are entirely sold out of my brand of diet root beer.
So it should come as no shock that the day I decide to make a stockpile of black bean soup the store is completely out of black beans. They had every other bean imaginable: kidneys, pintos, canelli, garbanzo, small pink and navy. But no black beans. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: Health Insurance Metformin Obesity type 2 diabetes
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My job will be ending sometime this summer. Consequently, I am investigating our health insurance options. Since hubby is self-employed, we have always covered the family under my work policy.
Now, I know that "health care in this country is in crisis"! I know this is a huge touchpoint for political candidates. Yes, I know all this intellectually.Â
Now it's PERSONAL. COBRA, offered by my employer by federal mandate, is more than a house note EVERY month. Private insurance is still pricey - more than what we paid on 2 car notes. And it carries a $2000 deductible per person. Some sloppy math later and it could be $15,000 a year before they pay any expenses for us.
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: Causes High Fructose Corn Syrup Type 2
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An interesting study came out recently. You can read about it here on dLife. In a nutshell, it says that sodas containing high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have high levels of a reactive compound that has been shown by others to have the potential to cause damage that may lead to diabetes. A very interesting aside is that one of the active compounds in green tea, EGCG, reduces those compounds substantially.
This really piqued my interest because I began to question HFCS a year or more ago due to some reading I'd done. Much like trans-fats, this stuff looks ok because it's based on real foods. It sounds innocuous - after all fructose is the sugar in fruit, right? And corn/maize is the original all-American food. BUT, and it's a big but, it is chemically altered. It's not like you can buy a bushel of corn on the cob and cook some HFCS up in your kitchen. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: Obesity reality tv type 2 diabetes
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Did you catch the Style network's new reality show? The 9 episode series is about a 487 lb Southern belle with type 2 diabetes who's been warned she's a "metabolic time bomb". You can see the first one here, if you missed it.
The show didn't discuss her diabetes in depth, the doctor just mentioned that she wasn't able to control her blood sugars. Ruby repeated something else later that her doctor had said. Â It compared high sugars with turning your blood to syrup and how that syrup damages the kidneys, the eyes, et al. That image of blood as syrup has stuck with me.
It's mentioned a couple times that Ruby has weighed over 700 lbs sometime in the past. I'll be interested to hear how she lost 200+ lbs already. She seems very motivated by the numerous threats to her health. I think the series is Tivo-worthy.Â
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: cholesterol levels complications diabetes diet diabetes treatment diagnosis hypertension MODY Obesity type 1 Type 2
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In observance of D-Blog Day, diabetes bloggers all over the world have been asked to identify six things they'd like people to know about diabetes. The following are mine:
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food In the News
Tags: humor
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STUDY USES CHINESE WOLFBERRIES TO IMPROVE VISION IMPERFECTIONS CAUSED BY TYPE 2 DIABETES - Physorg.com
Most effective when taken with a single dose of Ukrainian rainbow eggs, study finds. I mean seriously. Are we just making stuff up now?
DRINK YOUR WAY TO A DIABETES REMEDY - Suite101
"OK, Charlie, let’s get it right this time! First you lick the salt, then you drink the tequila and THEN you bite the lime! We’ll do this all day if we have to!"
DIABETES TREATMENTS MAY MAKE IT WORSE - St Louis Post
Splendid.
CURING DIABETES ONE ZIP CODE AT A TIME - WTOC TV
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Categories: Type 2 Food In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: fast food food choices Obesity stereotypes TV
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A recent DirecTV ad sent a number of d-tweeters to our keyboards, talking about the newest TV "superhero". The illuminated blue ring that would have been the dial on a rotary phone looks similar to the World Diabetes Day logo, suggesting that the cops in trouble might be calling for the help of "Diabetes Man". All things considered, the light-up blue ring on the telephone dial would have been cool had it connected to a diabetes crisis center ("I'm out of insulin and I can't get to my doc until a week from Friday!" "I'm reading 400 and I've injected almost a whole vial of insulin, but it still isn't going down!" "Diabetes sucks! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food In the News
Tags: humor
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Back by no particular demand, I bring you diabetes headlines.
Eat slowly, stay away from diabetes - Times of India
Don't look directly into its eyes, no sudden moves and for heaven's sake, keep your distance
Ontario Optometrists Help People with Diabetes See into the Future
"See" into the future. Get it???
DIABETES IS WEIGHING HEAVY; Obesity epidemic feeding a national crisis - Daily Examiner
"Weighing heavy." Get it???
Landmark Group opens registrations for 'Beat Diabetes' - KWT
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Less Intestines, Less Diabetes - Miller-McCune
"Yeah, I know, it's really gotten long. Just a little off the top please. We're trying to rid Charlie of a bit of diabetes."
Doctors admitted they knew nothing about diabetes - ITV
I'm sorry, dia ... what???
Diabetes fundraiser ; In brief - Brentwood Gazette
Give
Eat Breakfast and Avoid Diabetes? - Supermarketguru
Probably not. Unless you're serving a Grand Slam with a side of cure.
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