How to Reverse Prediabetes

How to Reverse Prediabetes

Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDCES | September 1, 2023

...added sugar or flavored syrups. Research links these beverages to insulin resistance, prediabetes, diabetes, and obesity (a leading risk factor for prediabetes and diabetes). Plate method To help you emphasize...

Mind-Body Practices Can Help Beat Type 2 Diabetes
Diseases & Conditions

Mind-Body Practices Can Help Beat Type 2 Diabetes

Chris Iliades, MD | December 13, 2022

...mind-body practice could help people with prediabetes reduce their risk for future type 2 diabetes. And according to the CDC, most people have prediabetes before they have type 2 diabetes....

Confusing Advice About Weight Loss, Diabetes and Heart Health
Heart

Confusing Advice About Weight Loss, Diabetes and Heart Health

Robert Lufkin, MD | July 31, 2024

...sweeteners, the sweeter fruit will taste to you. The standard approach to treating type 2 diabetes—insulin injections—treats only one symptom. People with type 1 diabetes have abnormally low insulin levels because...

Best Diabetes Drugs to Supplement Metformin
Diseases & Conditions

Best Diabetes Drugs to Supplement Metformin

Chris Iliades, MD | December 13, 2022

Up to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which includes approximately 37 million Americans. Once diagnosed, these individuals have to keep an eye on their blood...

New Diabetes Drugs Can Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer
Colon Cancer

New Diabetes Drugs Can Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

Chris Iliades, MD | April 11, 2024

...Cancer Society. The researchers reviewed the medical records of 1.2 million Americans between 2005 and 2019. They looked at anyone with type 2 diabetes newly started on a diabetes medication....

The Protein Cure for Obesity and Diabetes

The Protein Cure for Obesity and Diabetes

Chris Iliades, MD | December 13, 2022

...and type 2 diabetes. Researchers continue to actively study a variety of possible causes. Evidence has been mounting for one theory called the protein leverage hypothesis. A new study from...

The New Obesity Drugs

The New Obesity Drugs

Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, FOMA | November 1, 2023

...often-silent condition affecting 10% to 20% of Americans. Being overweight or having high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, prediabetes or high cholesterol can cause fat to accumulate in the liver, which...

High Cholesterol Symptoms
High Cholesterol

High Cholesterol Symptoms

Derek Burnett | May 9, 2024

...of people who have been diagnosed with diabetes also have high or borderline-high levels of total cholesterol, as do 77% of people with undiagnosed diabetes. Diabetes appears to cause HDL...

What Your Eye Exam Can Reveal About Your Health
Diseases & Conditions

What Your Eye Exam Can Reveal About Your Health

Britney Caruso, OD | July 1, 2024

...pressure was stabilized and her vision improved significantly. What other medical conditions can an eye-care clinician detect? Read on… Diabetes. The tiny blood vessels in the back of the eyes...

Is Time-Restricted Eating Right for You?
Nutrition

Is Time-Restricted Eating Right for You?

Krista Varady, PhD | April 3, 2023

...for type 2 diabetes. Less insulin resistance, another risk factor for type 2 diabetes Balanced levels of blood sugar, which helps prevent or normalize type 2 diabetes Lower blood pressure....

MASH: When It’s More Than “Fatty Liver”
Diseases & Conditions

MASH: When It’s More Than “Fatty Liver”

Stephen A. Harrison, MD | June 26, 2024

...earliest clue that that you have insulin resistance. ****** Among people with diabetes, 70 percent have fatty liver, 35 percent have MASH, and 17 percent have moderate to advanced fibrosis....

Drugs for Weight Loss
Exercise & Fitness

Drugs for Weight Loss

Derek Burnett | September 27, 2024

...diabetes medication. It’s taken by injection weekly. Rybelsus. Semaglutide in a tablet form. Rybelsus is only approved for diabetes management but does typically cause weight loss, although slightly less than...

The Secret Food Fix That Stops Diabetes

The Secret Food Fix That Stops Diabetes

August 12, 2019

...result being diabetes or its precursor, known as prediabetes. The Antioxidant Fix If you are concerned about diabetes, you may think that the easiest solution is to take an antioxidant...

Preventing Diabetes Through Drugs

Preventing Diabetes Through Drugs

Michael Hochman, MD | May 1, 2021

Are pharmaceuticals the answer to America’s diabetes problem? One group of diabetes researchers recently reported on a novel approach—give people with prediabetes, those who are close to developing full-blown diabetes,...

The Tastiest Health Tonic: A Cup of Tea
Nutrition

The Tastiest Health Tonic: A Cup of Tea

William W. Li, MD | March 20, 2023

...risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 17 percent. And in a five-year study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, people with type 2 diabetes who drank at...