When is the best time to exercise?

DIABETES DIGEST – Feb. 18, 2015 – People with type 2 diabetes are often told to exercise to help control their blood sugar. Few people ask, “what is the best time of day to exercise?” 

To find out, researchers led by Jill Kanaley, professor at the University of Missouri Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology tested whether exercising before or after dinner makes a difference. Their findings were published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. 

Lowering blood pressure in type 2 diabetes lowers mortality risk

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DIABETES DIGEST – Feb. 12, 2015 – If you have type 2 diabetes, lowering your blood pressure may lower your risk of heart disease and dying from cardiovascular disease, according to an analysis of 40 clinical trials dating back to 1966.

The study looked at data from more than 100,000 people who participated in large randomized clinical trials that included an analysis of blood pressure-lowering treatments and vascular disease in type 2 diabetes. The new analysis appeared in the Feb. 10 Journal of the American Medical Association.

Night-shift work may boost risk of type 2 diabetes among black women

Night shifts may boost
type 2 diabetes risk.
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DIABETES DIGEST – Jan. 29, 2015 – Black women who work nights may have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to their counterparts who have never worked nights, a new study shows.

The study by researchers at Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University involved 28,041 women participating in the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS)

Promising treatment for type 2 and obesity ready for clinical trials

Indiana University  Distinguished Professor Richard Di Marchi 

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DIABETES DIGEST – Dec. 8, 2014 – A new treatment for type 2 diabetes and obesity developed by researchers at Indiana University and the German Research Center for Environmental Health is poised to begin human clinical trials.

Study strengthens yogurt type 2 diabetes prevention link

DIABETES DIGEST – Nov. 24, 2014 – A analysis of data from three large populations studies with nearly 290,000 participants seems to confirm that consuming yogurt daily was associated with an 18 per cent lower risk of type 2 diabetes. The study  was published in the British medical journal, BMC Medicine.

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health pooled the results of three large cohort studies that followed the medical history and lifestyle habits of health professionals. These studies were the Health Professionals' Follow-up Study (HFPS), which included 51,529 US male dentists, pharmacists, vets, osteopathic physicians and podiatrists, aged from 40 to 75 years; Nurses' Health Study (NHS), which began in 1976, 

Not all people with type 2 diabetes benefit from exercise

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DIABETES DIGEST – Nov. 20, 2014 – If you have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and exercise regularly but see no improvement in your blood sugar control, you are not alone. 

A study in the current issue of the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism shows that as many as 20 percent of people with type 2 diabetes do not see any improvement in blood sugar management even when they take part in supervised exercise.

Study shows burning brown fat could be key to weight-loss

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DIABETES DIGEST – Nov. 17, 2014 – If you want to lose weight, you might try exercising in the cold. More research is out this week showing that the key to weight-loss is burning what is called brown fat, or more technically, brown adipocytes.

When you are cold the nervous system activates receptors on the surface of brown fat cells to stimulate glucose uptake from the bloodstream. Brown fat tissue is able to take up large amounts of glucose from the bloodstream to use as fuel to generate body heat.