What is the best diet to reduce heart disease and risk of diabetes? Research suggests that a back-to-basics approach may be the key to overcoming the fad diet trend. Study: The impact of dietary interventions on cardiometabolic health. Image credit: New Africa/Shutterstock.com A recent paper published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology reviews dietary interventions for cardiometabolic health. An … Read more
Over 500 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes-a disease that contributes to major complications such as stroke, kidney failure, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. At the heart of this condition lies the dysfunction of pancreatic islets, the mini-organs called organoids responsible for regulating blood sugar, in both autoimmune type 1 diabetes and stress-induced type 2 diabetes. … Read more
Differences in how individuals respond to carbohydrates could help identify distinct subtypes of metabolic health, according to new research from Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, California. The findings could pave the way for more personalised approaches to preventing and treating prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes. The study, led by Professor Michael Snyder and Professor Tracey McLaughlin, … Read more
Heart disease and type 2 diabetes rank among the leading causes of death and disability in the United States, and eating a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods can help to prevent or delay both of these conditions. New research suggests that a particular component of plant-based foods, known as phytosterol, could be instrumental in … Read more
When I found out I had diabetes in February 2021, I thought it was a death sentence. I was in denial, especially since I ate a healthy diet and exercised. Still, for months, I felt exhausted and run down to the point where some days it was hard to get out of bed. Part of … Read more
Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems – not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases. At the cellular level, hundreds of changes take place in response to a high-fat diet. MIT researchers have now mapped out some of those changes, with a … Read more
Researchers led by Maike Sander, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance, published in Developmental Cell, promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. An international team of researchers led by Max Delbrück Center Scientific Director Professor Maike Sander has for … Read more
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have succeeded in showing, in an animal model, that the process of insulin resistance in the brain affects both Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy and may be a linking factor between the two diseases. The work, supported by FAPESP, confirms clinical evidence that people with epilepsy … Read more
A large study of nearly a million adolescent boys reveals that late puberty isn’t as harmless as once thought, linking it to a sharply higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in early adulthood. Image Credit: Benedek Alpar / Shutterstock Boys who enter puberty later than average are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes as adults, … Read more
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