Smoking Increased Among Youth With Diabetes

Smoking Increased Among Youth With Diabetes

Posted by admin on 2/22/11 • Categorized as Diabetes News

Smoking Increased Among Youth With Diabetes: According to a new report from SEARCH Study Group, the number of young adults and children with diabetes who smoke has increased quite a bit, though health care providers are doing very little to encourage them to stop.
When a person has diabetes, they are already at a high risk for heart disease and when you put smoking into the mix, the risk becomes even greater. However, few studies have been created to find out the distinction between the two, in young adults and children. The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases, evaluated tobacco use and heart disease risk factor, both ethnically and racially. A diverse group of over 3,000 young adults and children who have been diagnosed with diabetes aging from 22 to 10 years were assessed in the United States.
Here is what they found:

Vitamin D Helping Diabetics With Clogged Arteries

Vitamin D Helping Diabetics With Clogged Arteries

Posted by admin on 11/15/12 • Categorized as Diabetes News

According to new research obtained by St. Louis’s Washington University School of Medicine, vitamin D can be helpful in unclogging arteries, which causes heart disease, in patients with diabetes.
Researchers report that blood vessels are less likely to clog in patients that have an adequate amount of vitamin D in their body. In patients that have little vitamin D in their body, the immune cells that are near and around the heart become trapped with cholesterol, which will in turn block those blood vessels , causing clogged arteries, heart disease and numerous other heart problems. Vitamin D deficiency is responsible for a lot of health problems.
Principal investigator Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, M.D. stated, “About 26 million Americans now have type 2 diabetes and as obesity rates rise, we expect even more people will develop diabetes. Those patients are more likely to experience heart problems due to an increase in vascular inflammation, so we have been investigating why this occurs.”

Poll Reveals Consumer Confusion about Healthy Fats

U.S. consumers are more aware today that not all fat is bad. Many realize that there are “good” and “bad” fats, but how many can identify that polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats belong to the former category?
The 2011 Consumer Attitudes about Nutrition Survey conducted by the United Soybean Board (USB) gathered opinions of 1,000 U.S. adults on issues of dietary health. The results showed that 53% of the adults in the study agreed that “following a moderate-fat diet but choosing good fats over bad fats” was a healthy eating strategy.
On the other end of the spectrum, 9% of the participants believed that “following a low-fat diet by reducing all fats” was the healthiest eating strategy and that the government recommends this type of diet. The actual diet recommended by authorities places more emphasis on the type of fat consumed instead of the total amount.