Secret Superfoods
Food

Secret Superfoods

Sharon Palmer, RDN | October 19, 2023

...slow-and-steady release of glucose into the bloodstream that is linked to lower rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other health problems. A recent study by researchers at...

Should You Treat High Triglycerides?
High Cholesterol

Should You Treat High Triglycerides?

Sadiya Khan, MD | November 3, 2023

...could represent obesity, uncontrolled diabetes, or lifestyle factors like excessive alcohol consumption and a high-calorie diet. Triglycerides, often overshadowed by cholesterol, can serve as early warning signs. Last year, the...

Healthy Ingredients from the Japanese Diet
Food

Healthy Ingredients from the Japanese Diet

Asako Miyashita, RDN, CDN | November 11, 2023

...rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. But avoiding unhealthful foods is only half of the advantage—the other half is consuming healthful foods, including some that are uncommon in the...

The Sunshine Vitamin
Nutrition

The Sunshine Vitamin

Ouliana Ziouzenkova, PhD | November 18, 2023

...see whether the benefits will continue to go up.   Vitamin D reduces risk for type 2 diabetes complications. The deadly complications of type 2 diabetes, notably heart disease, often...

Your Kidneys Are Fragile
Diseases & Conditions

Your Kidneys Are Fragile

Joseph Vassalotti, MD | February 19, 2024

...cause problems from muscle weakness to heart trouble. Also limit alcohol intake…avoid ultra-processed foods…and lose unwanted pounds. If you have diabetes, a certified diabetes educator (CDE) can help you with...

US Tax Court Wins and Losses
Taxes

US Tax Court Wins and Losses

Edward Mendlowitz, CPA, ABV, PFS, and Maryann T. Reyes, CPA, PFS | April 18, 2024

...Robert Lucas was a California software engineer who had diabetes, which he managed effectively with insulin injections and other medications. Partway through 2017, he was laid off from his job....

July 27, 2024

Lisa Foster-McNulty, RN, CDE, a registered nurse, certified diabetes educator and the director of patient care and education at Integrated Diabetes Services in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, IntegratedDiabetes.com. She serves as cochair...

Stand Up for Your Health

Stand Up for Your Health

Sara K. Rosenkranz, PhD | October 6, 2022

...More physical activity lowers high blood pressure, cuts the risk of death from heart disease or stroke, decreases the risk of several cancers, helps prevent and control prediabetes and diabetes,...

Are You Getting Too Much Iron?
Nutrition

Are You Getting Too Much Iron?

June 26, 2024

...a cluster of disorders that increases your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart attack, stroke, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (itself a risk factor for cirrhosis and liver cancer), and chronic...

Bust Belly Fat
Nutrition

Bust Belly Fat

Kimberly Gomer, RD | January 3, 2023

...molecule called interleukin-6, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. And higher levels of inflammation are linked to nearly every chronic health problem, including insulin resistance (prediabetes) and...

How to Avoid Fatal Fractures

How to Avoid Fatal Fractures

Jacqueline Center, PhD | March 9, 2023

...diabetes without any associted complications may have post-fracture fatality rates similar to those of people without diabetes…but diabetics who also suffer from associated heart or kidney disease are at far...

The Best Rx: Take a Walk

The Best Rx: Take a Walk

Joyce Shulman | July 19, 2023

...spikes are bad news for heart health, can make it harder to maintain a healthy weight and can foreshadow type 2 diabetes. Studies from George Washington University Medical Center and...

July 27, 2024

Michelle Magee, MD, endocrinologist, director, MedStar Diabetes Institute, associate professor of medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, both in Washington, DC. Her study, titled “Diabetes Boot Camp Reduces A1c and...

July 27, 2024

...and manage their diabetes through healthy diet and lifestyle, with minimal medication. Based in Paso Robles, California, she currently is writing a self-help guide for people with type 2 diabetes....

July 27, 2024

...research director and chief scientific officer of Harvard’s Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, and author of The Diabetes Reset: The Revolutionary Plan to Reverse, Control, and Avoid Type 2 Diabetes (Workman)....