by Ng Peng Hock

People always associate sugar with diabetes. Perhaps it is partly because of the fact that patients with diabetes are monitored with regular measurement of their blood sugar. As you know, diabetes causes one’s body not to produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life.

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has been living with diabetes for more than 15 years. In 1989, Miss Berry was diagnosed with diabetes and has since then been active in raising awareness about the disease. She admits that she is very strict with her diet - chicken, fish, vegetables, brown rice, and tabbouleh (a Middle Eastern salad of wheat, parsley and tomatoes). In addition, she exercises regularly, and it is this combination that really keeps her healthy. To have diabetes under control, it is also important to know what and when you eat.

Experts do suggest diabetics should control the amount of carbohydrates they eat. They must also eat regular meals to avoid fluctuations in the blood sugar levels. Eating only a meal a day is not healthy at all, instead diabetics should eat small and frequent meals. More

Diabetes: The $132 Billion Dollar Pandemic

by: Dr Robert Gamble

You know, it’s not everyday a fellow like me gets to announce a major paradigm shift, much less concerning diabetes …or any other medical condition.

You don’t know what a paradigm shift is? Well, if I mentioned events and names like: Gutenberg, Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Werner von Braun …you would probably guess a paradigm shift is major shift in thinking…and you would be right.

Back in the 1960’s, Thomas Kuhn wrote a famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he destroyed the common misconception so many of us have about science.

We tend to think scientific progress is ushered in by a slow, line upon line, piece by piece development of thought over time. More

According to an article by Ellen Mitchell in Newsday cinnamon may be helpful to those with Type 2 diabetes.


Bob Wagner has Type 2 diabetes and is under the care of an internest at his new home in South Carolina. His internist Dr. Frank Heart has prescribed cinnamon to approximately 150 of his diabetic patiences over the last year and a half and ound that in a lot of his patients who have elevated blood sugar it has “worked wonders.”

Other physicians are also discovering that cinnamon appears to help patients who have Type 2 diabetes.

Richard Anderson, from the Human Nutrition Research Center in Maryland, provided the first research that cinnamon might be of more value than just a spice in your morning muffin. “Test tube studies revealed the most active ingredient in cinnamon to be methylhydroxy chalcone polymer, which the researchers said helps convert glucose (sugar) to energy.”

Hart, meanwhile, says to his patients are startled when he recommends cinnamon.

“They think I’m a nut case,” he said. “But I tell them, don’t laugh. Try it.”

According to the article below posted at PakTribune “people who eat too much fast food gain more weight and are more likely to develop early signs of diabetes.”

That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 3,000 white and black American adults. Participants reported their fast-food dining habits for 15 years, starting when they were 18-30 years old.

“Appropriate action would be to reduce portions to normal sizes, and to sell burgers of lean meat, whole-grain bread or buns, fat-reduced mayonnaise, more vegetables, lower-fat fried potatoes, and reduced-sugar soft drinks,” writes Arne Astrup, in an accompanying editorial in The Lancet.

In the study, those who ate fast food more than twice a week gained 10 more pounds during the study than participants who ate fast food less than once a week. They also doubled their insulin resistance, a sign of early diabetes. More