Diabetes and coronavirus: guidelines The coronavirus or COVID-19 is ravaging the planet. Both the new virus and the disease were unknown before the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. A recent publication with the mortality data of the first patients has shown that people with diabetes may have more serious complications when infected. [...]
Tell me your country, how you live, and I'll tell you your risk of type 2 diabetes Although it is fairly well known around us that the risk of type 2 diabetes is higher at lower income and cultural levels, in developing countries it is just the opposite Type 2 diabetes is considered [...]
Juice concentrates more sugar than fruit Despite industry marketing pressure, daily or frequent consumpiton of fruit juices is not recommended, even if it is homemade. And much less if it is diabetes around. The inclusion of juices in the diet on a regular basis, is associated with a worse health prognosis. At least [...]
Sweeteners, weight, diabetes and health: many doubts and few certainties Caloric sweeteners have been proposed as a solution to a problem: the omnipresence of sugar. But their use today remains controversial because in addition to solving little or nothing, they may be the source of not a few problems. At this point we discover [...]
Diabetes: Protect Your Family World Diabetes Day is the largest diabetes awareness campaign in the world. It reaches a global audience of more than one billion people in 165 countries and this year's theme is "Family and Diabetes". Any disease affects many more people than those who are strictly diagnosed. Family members are usually [...]
Pioneering genetics for prevention and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and GDM at the EASD2019 "A new era in the treatment of people diagnosed with diabetes is opened by providing precise recommendations to act on lifestyle with the information of our genes. The patient is our target. Public health, our goal," MD. PhD. Mirella Zulueta, Medical [...]
Slowing the incidence and prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. Does the impossible come true? A recent study shows that new diagnoses of diabetes in the United States have decreased by 35 percent since the 2008 peak. This could be the first sign of usefulness of all efforts to curb the epidemic Against the [...]
Sugar, labeling and diabetes Far too easily, and quickly too, we relate concepts such as rain and umbrella, hammer and clove, soup and spoon ... and we do the same with diabetes and sugar. When we hear 'diabetes' we immediately think of 'sugar'; so much so that many people believe that sugar is the [...]
Diet and physical activity and Gestational Diabetes As mentioned in another article on this blog, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is broadly defined as a situation in which a woman first faces a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance in the course of pregnancy, and which is usually resolved, or ended, at the [...]
Up to date - Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes- 2019 At the end of the year the American Diabetes Association published an update with standards for healthcare in the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Today we bring them closer to you and discuss nutritional issues The American Diabetes Association [...]
