I mentioned this in my “Updates to Blood Sugar 101″ blog, but because that blog doesn’t get a lot of traffic, I think it is worth repeating here.
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News You Missed: Actos Strongly Linked to Retinopathy
8 years, today.(pumpiversary, whoo hoo!) And I’m traveling to another country this summer, for the first time ever. England, for about a week. And Denmark, for another week.
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Have Pump, Will Travel
Another study has added to the evidence we already have that suggests that nonsteroidal antinflamatories, the “non-aspirin pain killers” you buy over the counter at the pharmacy are bad for you. The latest study, published in the journal Neurology was hoping to prove that taking these drugs would lower the incidence of dementia.
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Go Easy on the Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen etc.
A study published in JAMA that is in the medical new today deserves the attention of anyone with diabetes who wonders what their chances are of having a heart attack and what factors correlate with that likeliness of heart attack.
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Study: Good News About Diabetes and Heart Attack
Things have a tendency to level out, in the end.
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The Square Root of Genius
Give me steak, lots of steak, with the gooey stuff I love Chol-es-ter-ol If 200 is normal, I know mine is way above Chol-es-ter-ol Let me eat lots of milk,eggs, and hunks of cheese I eat what I want, and what I want is grease Load me up with bacon, pass the gravy please Chol-es-ter-ol. Just turn me loose, keep the skillet good and greasy Honey, where’s my Lipitor.. And if I eat all the steak that I shouldn’t, What the heck are these pills for
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Celebrating the Lowly Lipid
And in case you haven’t heard, a grand-kid on the way.America loves the Duggars!
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A New Twist on "Edelweiss"
A study of more than 500,000 Americans over 40 shows that those who consume the equivalent of at least a hamburger a day have a 30 percent increased chance of dying during the next 10 years, mostly from heart disease and cancer.
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Why Meat from Mammals is Risky
Reading Kerri’s post about LADA’s, childhood onset, and all assorted in between made me think back to that summer of 1998(pre-diabetes). I have alot of prediagnosis memories,diet (anything)was a four letter word and something I never even considered following
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The Summer of Sixteen
Women who have high levels of insulin are at high risk for developing breast cancer ( Journal of the National Cancer Institute , January 2009). Insulin stimulates breast cells to grow. Women who are most likely to have high levels of insulin are those who are obese, store fat primarily in their bellies, do not exercise, eat lots of refined carbohydrates (sugar and flour), and lack vitamin D.
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High Insulin = High Breast Cancer Risk