Using Pedometers For Motivation
When I recently visited my friend John in Northern California for five days, I thought that we might take some walks. But I hadn’t counted on his new pedometer.
John and I both have type 2 diabetes and get out in nature a lot. But now that he wears a pedometer all the time, he hikes almost every day. And every day that we spent together we got out in the woods or on the beach. He took me on seven hikes, one that took us nine... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - April 8, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Eat Eggs for Diabetes Health
If you have pre-diabetes, eating eggs can help you avoid getting type 2 diabetes. If you already have it, you can benefit from eating two eggs a day without worsening your cholesterol levels.
These are the conclusions of new studies that The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, one of the world’s leading nutrition and dietetics medical journals, published separately this month. The pre-diabetes study, published online on... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - April 7, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The Best Cocoa for Managing Diabetes
Did you know that chocolate can reduce insulin resistance and improve memory? The good nutrients in chocolate are flavanols, as I wrote at “Cocoa Cuts Diabetes Insulin Resistance.”
Last week, I reviewed new research, the full text of which is free online at “Cocoa flavanol consumption.” This was a randomized double-blind study of 90 people who for eight weeks consumed either 48 mg, 520 mg, or 993 mg of... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - April 1, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Cocoa Cuts Diabetes Insulin Resistance
Several studies show that eating chocolate can reduce our insulin resistance, which is why we get type 2 diabetes in the first place. But not just any chocolate candy will cut it.
Cocoa Pods in Different Stages of Ripening
We extract chocolate from cocoa beans, which for good reason carries the scientific name meaning “food of the gods.” The Aztecs saw it as a sacred plant, reserving it for their... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 30, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Don't Waste Your Time and Money on Diabetes Testing
Unless people with diabetes take insulin, they waste their time and money when they test their blood sugar.
I agree with the conclusions of a review from the Cochrane Collaboration, the most respected group that reviews scientific studies. Six experts reviewed a dozen randomized controlled trials of 3,259 people with diabetes. The review, “Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 16, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Don’t Waste Your Time and Money on Diabetes Testing
Unless people with diabetes take insulin, they waste their time and money when they test their blood sugar.
I agree with the conclusions of a review from the Cochrane Collaboration, the most respected group that reviews scientific studies. Six experts reviewed a dozen randomized controlled trials of 3,259 people with diabetes. The review, “Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 13, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Positive Emotions Reduce Inflammation from Diabetes
The Grand Canyon Inspires Awe When We See It
(Photograph from the North Rim by David Mendosa)
We can manage our diabetes better when we let ourselves feel positive emotions, particularly awe. This is the conclusion of research that the American Psychological Association’s professional journal Emotion will publish soon.
The new study led by Jennifer Stellar, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, links emotions and... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 9, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
A Sleep Shortcut for Diabetes Health
The experts agree that we need seven to eight hours of sleep if we want to remain in good health. You can even read about their beliefs in my most recent article, "The Right Amount of Sleep to Avoid Diabetes.” But they’re wrong.
When we are clever enough, we can trick our bodies into thinking that they are well rested. In fact, a new study proves that this trick works.
What most of the experts fail to take into account is... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 9, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The Right Amount of Sleep to Avoid Diabetes
This study is a meta-analysis of 10 previous studies that Diabetes Care, a professional... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 4, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The Important Role Sleep Plays in Diabetes
The past few day have seen a spate of articles about sleep, particularly as it affects those of us who have diabetes. It’s about time! In fact, several of them have literally been about time. The amount of sleep that we get is a crucial yet little appreciated aspect of our health.
The Cause Discovered
One of the most important recent studies has found how and why enough sleep is important for managing our diabetes. When... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 2, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The New Diabetes Breakfast
My usual breakfast has changed because of my new diet. But it’s better for me than the smoked salmon that I ate before as well as being even tastier.
More than seven years ago when I began to follow a very-low carb diet, people told me that it would be hard to stay on. Shortly after I started on it I wrote “Why I Low-carb” for a diabetes magazine. But for me it was no challenge. I still follow a plan of eating no more than six... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - February 23, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Belonging to Our Culture: Diabetes Support Groups
Once we have diabetes we are even more isolated from our culture than most people. This makes finding a solution more difficult for us, but we have a way out.
People around the world are fast losing their cultural ties, as I wrote in my most recent articles here, “The Breakdown of Indigenous Culture and the Rise of Diabetes” and “The Breakdown of Mainstream Culture and the Rise of Diabetes.”
Most of us are... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - February 11, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The Breakdown of Mainstream Culture and the Rise of Diabetes
The real cause of the diabetes epidemic in the Western world may be separation from our cultural roots. The evidence is in plain sight, but generally ignored.
Those of us in the modern world who have diabetes are equally subject to the breakdown of culture as the indigenous peoples of the world whose cultural ties broke when they came into contact with the modern world. “The Breakdown of Indigenous Culture and the Rise of... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - February 9, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
The Breakdown of Indigenous Culture and the Rise of Diabetes
The basic reason why you and I have type 2 diabetes may be because we have broken ties to our culture. Another way of saying this is that our Western culture is itself broken.
This is still an hypothesis, but it’s one that follows from research into the root cause of diabetes among First Nations people of Canada, Aboriginal Australians, the Pima Indians of Arizona. Studies have found a link between cultural collapse and... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - February 5, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Fructose Fuels Type 2 Diabetes
Reducing how much fructose you eat without compromising your fruit intake may be the best way to start managing your diabetes if your blood sugar levels are higher than you would like them to be.
These are the main messages of a special article written by a cardiovascular research scientist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, and by two M.D. co-authors in a mainstream professional diabetes... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - January 29, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
