Ideas tagged with diabetes
The increasing rate of diabetes, often attributed to overweight associated with hypercaloric diets, has led to numerous dietary and lifestyle intervention trials. In these, the dietary components have focused particularly on controlling caloric intake through reduced fat or sugars [1](http://lin...
Current thinking suggests diabetes has variable causes, is inevitably progressive, and causes hyperglycaemia. **Type 1** is an autoimmune disease causing β-cell (source of insulin) death, and **type 2** is an insulin activity deficiency (insulin resistance)<sup>[1](http://linkinghub.elsevier.com...
Current therapeutic options for diabetes mellitus are feeble in long term management of blood glucose, which can result in many serious complications. Recent studies illustrate that the intestinal microflora is a feasible vehicle to deliver the target hormones to the liver and a cost-effective o...
By Mahsa Jalili
Endogenous insulin production ceases with the loss of pancreatic islet β-cells, caused by autoimmune antibodies [1, ](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(01)05415-0)[2, ](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2012.10.003)[3](http://www.mlo-online.com/articles/201310/the-clinical-application-of-islet-...
The Dawn Phenomenon (DP) was first noted in diabetics as an unexpected increase in blood glucose beginning during sleep early in the morning<sup>[1](http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diacare.4.6.579)</sup>. The glucose is derived from increased hepatic gluconeogenesis rather than reduced glucose use and...
Consumption of highly processed foods is strongly correlated with a multitude of negative health outcomes and has been identified as a driver in obesity epidemics worldwide. The precise mechanisms for this phenomenon are not well understood, but one possibility suggests itself; in other fields i...