A bigger and better diet may be only a prick away. Your nutritional needs could easily be detected by a small blood sample much like a fingerstick. By analyzing the unique metabolic changes in an individual’s body, researchers hope to develop more personalized dietary guidelines for improving health and fighting diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Amen to that!
Metabolomics, an emerging field whose practitioners study how foods affect metabolism, may provide new tools and data for customizing today’s one-size-fits-all dietary guidelines for an individual’s own body, the article notes.
By being able to monitor the hundreds of compounds …read more

So what have you heard about this whole diet soda and diabetes thing? I have read a few posts on fellow blogger’s sites today that have presented differing views on the topic. Do you consume diet soda? Has your doctor or clinician advised you otherwise? Just curious.
There is all kinds of recent research that states diet soda can be linked to diabetes and heart disease. Some even claim that diet soda will put you at a higher risk for weight gain than regular, full caloried, all the sugar having, sweet soda. Hmm, I don’t …read more

Happy Monday to y’all! I don’t have a whole lot of new diabetic news today. There was no new medication nor research studies published in the last few days, after all it is vacation season, right? And I don’t have too much to offer in my personal diabetic life, except I think I ate an entire cheesecake this weekend thanks to one of my good friends, Debbie. By the way, you would have to as well, it is the best home made cheesecake in the entire world, and I get to eat about 2-3 times a year, …read more

The International Diabetes Federation has introduced a new definition for children and adolescents at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease later in life.
“Almost 4 million deaths every year are a consequence of diabetes-related causes. And with diabetes set to reach 380 million people within a generation, the death toll can only rise.(3) This is the first generation where children may die before their parents.”
Is that scary, or what? As a community, heck a society, we have to set guidelines and enforce education on this as well as have support systems in place for our …read more

As some of you know, I write A Hearty Life as well as Diabetes Notes. Being a cardiac nurse, I have a strong passion for the topic. Now, we all know that diabetes and heart disease goes hand in hand. So does exercise, eating healthy and prevention of disease. But how many of use what we know on a consistent basis?
Do you hit the gym a couple times a week? Do you make sure to practice heart health? Do you care? Well, Mark Sisson from Mark’s Daily Apple has done another guest post …read more