Top Ten worries for type 2 diabetes Despite nowadays type 2 diabetes knowledge, there is growing need of answers. Let see which ones are, in accordance with main parts involved: patients and family net, researchers and healthcare professionals. It seems that practical difficulties to implement specific measures for type 2 diabetes patients (overall [...]
Meat consumption and its relationship with health and type 2 diabetes Between carnivores and vegans there is a gray scale perfectly valid to meat consumption. Keep your eyes wide open. The most recent dietary recommendations are quite negative for meat lovers. It is highly recommended to limit its consumption, overall for red meat [...]
If the vending machine hates you, hate it back! The presence of the so-called “vending machines” has grown exponentially in the last three decades. Nevertheless, despite its possibilities the inside content tends to be the unhealthiest stuff we may find. Vending machines usually gather in a small place many products with little nutritional [...]
Guide to understanding food labeling Food labeling becomes a true jumble of ingredients, calories, grams, percentages and other data difficult to interpret. This post will provide you with tools to clarify its meaning. Nothing worse than having information and have no idea of how to understand it. In fact, it can drive us [...]
Six diabetes and food Myths There are no environments such as health and diet where myths spread like wildfire. And in this area, slimming and diabetes stand out above. By Juan Revenga It is terrible. In a world driven by aesthetics, health is second. There is no way to understand the lack of [...]
Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes When it comes to establish an association between cardiovascular risk and type 2 diabetes, scientific evidence is conclusive. Both, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes already have epidemic dimension and are among the main causes of death. If you have type 2 diabetes your body does [...]
New standards in prevention and treatment of diabetes Stuff goes fast around diabetes. Thus, it is not surprising that each year the American Diabetes Association (ADA) updated its Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (2017) to provide the best advice based on the most recent evidence. As usual, the document includes several sections like: [...]
There is not standard meal plan for people with diabetes, there are dozens Last week I had the privilege of being invited to the XXVIII National Congress of the Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED) with Pablo Zumaquero, a fellow dietitian-nutritionist. We were invited to lead a workshop entitled “Low-fat diets or low-carbohydrate diets?” [...]
Sweeteners, Obesity and Diabetes (II): Sweeteners and Type 2 Diabetes As we said in the previous post beyond the possible explanations and results that offer doubts about the suitability of sweeteners as an alternative to sugar, other studies have recently been published that directly relate its extensive use with type 2 diabetes in this [...]
Sweeteners, obesity and diabetes (i): the siege narrows It has been long time ago that sweeteners have postulated as a healthy option instead of sugar. However, up to date, a growing corpse of evidence points that far from an innocuous substitute sweeteners could be rather harmful. Our biology has an instinctive, atavistic, tendency [...]
