"It is hard to get good advice in this Type-2 diabetes matter. Diabetes is a massive "feeder" disease. Eye doctors, skin doctors, feet doctors, kidney doctors and others might go broke if we fixed it. The real problem is that the main way to really fix it is to skinny America up. You probably know how to do that - the choice between that pie and eventual blindness."      -John White

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Possible cancer link to Lantus PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Sunday, 28 June 2009 10:17

"New studies have shown a "possible link" between the use of the diabetes treatment Lantus and cancer, a European diabetes association said Friday as it made an "urgent call" for more research."

For more info, see the article by Jeanne Whalen and Peter Loftu in the June 27, 2009 Wall Street Journal.

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 June 2009 10:22 )
 
NEW! Registered users of bloodsugar.com can now keep their bloodsugar and weight online. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 19 June 2009 10:01

There is just no way to control your blood sugar if you don't know what it is. Or was. What was your weight and bloodsugar a year ago? Two? Its probably on some sheet of paper which is or used to be on the refrigerator, or in some blood testing machine with dead batteries. Or some book you were keeping but now can't find.  

We are happy to introduce a new added benefit for our registered users:  an online Blood Sugar and Weight Tracking Chart.  This chart automatically tracks your average weight and blood sugar levels, and may help you find some correlation between your diet and blood sugar readings.

After logging in to bloodsugar.com with your user information, just click on the Online Blood Sugar and Weight Tracking Chart menu item, which will appear in the Main Menu. Record your fasting weight and bloodsugar for that day. That information will be saved when you log out. Only you will be able to view your chart.

We don't posit our online chart as a substitute for whatever you were doing to record your bloodsugar/weight. Keep doing that. Hackers or others might take out our site. But we think you will find it very helpful to also keep a record here. It will be kept in your own, private user area.

Thank you for joining the BloodSugar.com community.

 

John White

Editor

Last Updated ( Friday, 19 June 2009 10:13 )
 
Blood Sugar Study Stopped after Deaths PDF Print E-mail
Written by John White   
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:33

A front page story in the New York Times notes that all is not peachy keen in the blood sugar world. According to the Times, the feds were conducting a study of 10,000 older Type 2 diabetics who were on a strict blood sugar lowering regimen, mostly drug-induced. After it became clear that more of those in the intense blood-sugar control group were dying than those who were on a less strict regimen, the feds "abruptly" halted the study.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 April 2009 14:14 )
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One Way to Eat (EESQ) PDF Print E-mail
Written by John White   
Monday, 16 February 2009 10:40

"There is a new mini-lifestyle making the rounds, as follows:

1. Eat whenever you are hungry.
2. Eat whatever you want.
3. Savor every bite.
4. Quit when you are full.
5. Exercise regularly.
We are not at all sure that this will work for type-2 diabetics. Your editor tried for five days, beginning 2-17-09 and gained 4 pounds and 35 points on his fasting bloodsugar.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 June 2009 09:27 )
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Diabetes Drugs Under Investigation by the FDA PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 12 January 2009 10:37

The Food and Drug Administration is asking the manufacturers of new drugs and biologics for type 2 diabetes to be more diligent in determining if their therapies pose cardiovascular risks.

Until now, manufacturers had only to show that their drugs reduced blood sugar levels.

The FDA already has placed black-box warnings on one class of type 2 diabetes drugs, thiazolidinediones, or TZDs, after they were found in postmarketing studies to increase the risk of heart failure. Two drugs, Avandia, or rosiglitazone, and Actos, or pioglitazone, are in that class.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 March 2009 11:48 )
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Editor's Brown Rice Diet PDF Print E-mail
Written by John White   
Sunday, 07 June 2009 16:00

The goal of your editor's new diet/life style is to eat only brown rice - without doing too much damage to his ever-so-sparse social life, i.e. while continuing to enjoy an occasional cigar and Guinness. There are two parts to this:

A, Discretionary eating: Will-power permitting, no solid food other than brown rice (including occasional restaurant fried rice), olive oil, garlic salt, and occasional apricots, blueberries, greens and fish (preferably salmon) should grace your lips. If at a restaurant and acceptable food is not on the menu, eat a salad.

B. Non-Discretionary eating: If a prepared meal is served at a function you are attending, or when you are a guest at someone's home, eat what is put in front of you. Keep the EESQ diet rules in mind here. If you have not lost enough to be at your ideal weight, and can politely do so, pass on desert and starches.

C. The foregoing could probably be put into circle (bullseye) format, with brown rice in the center, salad/vegetables in the next circle, fish in the third, meat in the fourth and so on, the goal being to hit the bullseye.

Of course, it is important that you check with your doctor before undertaking any new diet. Now, here are the results of your editor's attempts at this lifestyle: (day-before cheating is noted at side):

(WEIGHT, FASTING BLOODSUGAR) - 2009

7-3
 250 138
7-2
 250 138
7-1248148

6-30 (249, 141)

6-29 (249, 139)

6-28 (250, 133)

6-27 (249, 144)

6-26 (249, 137)

6-23 (252, 140) bread, meat, disgusted with self

6-22 (251, 136)

6-21 (250, 137) pancakes, eggs, meat

6-19 (250, 157)

6-17 (251, 142) won ton soup

6-16 (251, 145) 2 ice cream bars

6-15 (250, 146) grapes

6-14 (248, 138)

6-12 (248, 136)

6-11 (250, 140)

6-10 (250, 146)

6-9 (249, 138)

6-8 (251, 157)

6-7 (250, 157)

Last Updated ( Friday, 03 July 2009 04:03 )
 
Belly Fat + Stress = High Blood Sugar PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 12:01

 

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that excess belly fat combined with high stress levels may boost the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in black women, a group disproportionately affected by the disease.

"Much attention has been given to the role of obesity in the development of type 2 diabetes, but stress may be as important in this at-risk population," said Dr. Anastasia Georgiades, of Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 March 2009 12:09 )
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Jazz owner's complications with diabetes encouraging other to seek treatment early PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Saturday, 07 February 2009 09:28

The complications from diabetes suffered by Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller have prompted a flurry of calls from people worried about similar complications.

On Jan. 23, Larry Miller's legs were amputated six inches below the knee because of diabetes-caused infection in his feet. Since then, people have been calling doctors with concerns about their own condition.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 07 February 2009 09:40 )
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Fast Heart Rate Warns of Obesity, Diabetes PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:31

And those conditions take toll on the heart, study says...

A too-fast heartbeat in early adulthood is a warning sign for increased risk of cardiovascular problems decades later on, a Japanese study suggests.

The study of 614 residents of a rural farming community in southwestern Japan found that a heart rate greater than 80 beats a minute during a first examination in 1979 predicted the development of obesity and diabetes, which contribute to heart problems.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:51 )
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