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Tag: insulin sensitivity

One good way to get your insulin going
  • Exercise for Health

One good way to get your insulin going

  • Posted on July 10, 2019July 8, 2019
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

Once your cells become insensitive to insulin, your risk of type 2 diabetes climbs. Can exercise help? In a recent study, Danish researchers randomly assigned 188 sedentary overweight or obese…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Diabetes and Diet: Can Magnesium Supplements Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes?

  • Posted on March 17, 2015
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Whole grains, leafy greens, nuts, and beans. All are linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and all are rich in magnesium. What’s more, people who get more…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Exercise for Health: Walk to Work

  • Posted on August 24, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Lowering your diabetes risk may be as easy as walking to work. Researchers in Japan studied roughly 8,600 middle-aged men who were working for the same company. The men had…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Diabetes and Diet: Can Vitamin D Protect You Against Diabetes?

  • Posted on August 21, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Many studies that track healthy people for years have reached the same conclusion: “People with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Diabetes and Diet: Can Coffee Lower Your Risk?

  • Posted on August 4, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

While soda may boost your diabetes risk, coffee may lower it. When researchers followed 96,000 women and 27,000 men for four years, those who upped their coffee intake by about…

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  • Sugar in Food

Sugar in Food: Are Sugary Beverages Contributing to the Diabetes Epidemic?

  • Posted on August 2, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

“The data are pretty compelling that we should basically cut out sugar-sweetened beverages,” says Frank Sacks, professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health. Sugary drinks—soft…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Diabetes and Diet: Prediabetes Is More Common than You’d Think

  • Posted on July 28, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

A diabetes tsunami is headed our way, say experts. One in three adults—and nearly one in two men—already have prediabetes. The chief culprits: two-thirds of adults (and one-third of children)…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Diabetes and Diet: Do Carbs Raise Your Risk?

  • Posted on July 24, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Does a diet that’s high in carbs—or high in the wrong carbs—raise your risk of diabetes? The answers are still murky. When two large European studies pitted higher-carb diets against…

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  • Diabetes and Diet

Is There a Link between Testosterone and Diabetes?

  • Posted on April 30, 2014
  • by David Schardt

“Low T” ads promise men a vibrant, new lease on life with prescription testosterone gels and patches. And dozens of over-the-counter supplements claim to boost or “support” testosterone levels. Testosterone…

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  • Supplements

Can the dietary supplement resveratrol add years to your life?

  • Posted on April 10, 2014
  • by David Schardt

“Rediscover your youthful DNA…reawaken youthful activity with this revitalizing, age-defying regimen.” To listen to the ResVitále company describe its resveratrol supplement, you’d think that turning back the clock was just…

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