If giving a gift in honor of your mom, don’t forget to write out your reasons for doing so in a card. When your mom is able to understand why it was important for you to do that, she’ll appreciate the gift all the more.

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Make a Diabetes Donation in Honor of Mom

I caught this article where one medical professional choose to do just that. There is something about hauling out a sick story of amputation that smacks of arrogance. Medical professionals may believe that diabetics don’t pay attention or don’t care about their bodies, but I can assure you that is not the case. Moreover, many of us feel that it is the medical professionals who don’t care.

Rather than talk about an amputation horror story as a way to say “manage your blood sugars,” how about doing some real education? How about making sure the patient truly understands the difference between carbs and protein? How about making sure diabetics feel empowered to manage their disease, rather than try and scare them into it.

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Doctors and Treatment of Diabetics

Diabetic hearts rely almost exclusively on fats for energy while a “normal” heart relies on fats and sugars for food.

Let me break it down for you. Both PPAR-alpha and PPAR-beta/delta are proteins that are found in heart tissue. In the diabetic heart, enhanced activity of PPAR-alpha drives the use of fats as fuel, but the role of PPAR-beta/delta has been unknown, which is unfortunate being that this protein increases cardiac function. In the mice that were engineered to mimic a diabetic heart, increased PRAR-alpha, there was increased fat, decreased sugar for fuel and a higher incidence of cardiac arrest.

Let’s hope that this discovery will aid scientists in further dissecting and discovering a way to increase those good ol’ PPAR-beta/delta proteins among diabetics.

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Diabetic Hearts Burn The Fat But Leave The Sugar Behind

Cardiac disease deaths fall while obesity and diabetes are on the rise.

So, that’s surprising? How can the amount of diabetics rise and yet cardiac disease among the very same people is decreasing. Bizarre? No…

Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.

So yet another tribute to the ol’ healthy lifestyle. Diet and nutrition play such a big part. So, I promise this will be my last soap box type post for a while. But ya’all better listen, or else….

via Science Daily

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Cardiac Disease On The Fall As Diabetes And Obesity On The Rise