Diabetes News

Early this morning, at 7:25 a.m. exactly, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chris Velardi of the WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut on Good Morning Connecticut Weekend. Can you guess what Chris interviewed me about? Well, given that I'm a sugar expert and author of the upcoming book, SUGAR SHOCK!, I offered tips for really fun, non-edible treats that you can give trick-or-treaters for Halloween Tuesday night. Chris is a smart, savvy anchor/reporter, who asked some insightful questions and made some astute observations. He even quizzed me about my history as a sugar addict, and I even laughingly...

When I began this SUGAR SHOCK! Blog back in June 2005, I promised you provocative items at times. Well, here's a link to a stunningly shocking article, FDA Attacks Small Nutrition Companies, which just appeared on NewsTarget.com. It's truly a fascinating piece of expose journalism from Byron Richard, author of Fight For Your Health: Exposing the FDA's betrayal of America. Frankly, I'm still forming an opinion on this subject, and I'd like to learn more about these letters that the FDA fired off to small nutrition companies that made claims they had natural remedies to help with diabetes. I'm eagerly...

Obesity pill might treat diabetes (MSNBC) A new obesity pill that helps to control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes could provide a novel way to treat the illness, a team of international researchers said. Diabetes in Middle Age = More Problems (WebMD) A new study shows a diabetes diagnosis ...

Pity poor parents worldwide. With candy being universally available and regularly within sight of children, what is a parent to do? How do you combat its influence on your children? How do you lessen the influence of advertisers and get candy consumption under control in your family? How can you win the candy wars? Writers Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller, co-authors of The 10 Commitments: Parenting with Purpose, pose these questions in their article, Winning the Candy Wars, which appears on the website of the Westchester Coalition of Better School Food. They then offer a number of helpful suggestions to...

Yet another study, this one from Denmark, spotlights the value of spurning those quickie carbs, Reuters reports. Indeed, Dr. Helle Hare-Bruun and colleagues from Copenhagen University Hospital suggest that staying away from simple carbohydrates and eating plenty of fiber-rick foods may help women avoid packing on pounds as they get older. On the flip side, they discovered that normal-weight women who more high-glycemic foods gained more weight, more fat, and more padding around the middle over a six-year period than women who ate a low-glycemic index diet. The researchers report their findings in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition....

Talk about spooky! Here's some SUGAR SHOCKING! news that's enough to give the nutrition minded amongst us wide-awake ghoulish, goblin-filled nightmares. Last year, Halloween candy sales scarily climbed to some $2.1 billion, making it the largest candy season of the year, according to the National Confectioners Association (NCA). (Think SUGAR SHOCK! nation this month rather than Fast Food Nation, where candy corn and licorice are in; but French fries and onion rings are momentarily out.) Check out more startling findings from the National Confectioners Association: 2005 candy sales were 2.3% higher than the year before. This estimate includes chocolate candy,...

The Next Drug Bonanza: Diabetes (Forbes) Americans' poor diets and inactivity are making diabetes the drug industry's next sales bonanza. Sangamo BioSciences and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announce partnership (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has entered into an agreement with Richmond-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc. to provide the company ...

Check out this brilliant, laugh-out-loud cartoon, which Mike Adams over at NewsTarget.com gave me permission to run. You can read the accompanying commentary here. NewsTarget.com's Counterthink Cartoons are, as NewsTarget.com points out, "parodies or satirical commentary on various matters we believe to be of public concern and are offered as Free Speech within the protection of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."...

Live in Connecticut? I invite you to watch WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut very early Sunday morning (between about 7 a.m. and 7:25 a.m.), where you can catch me on Good Morning Connecticut Weekend, where I'll be offering viewers some ideas for non-candy treats to pass out to trick-or-treaters. Check back here soon, because even if you miss the interview, I'll get you video afterwards. In addition, I'll post a link to an article I'm writing for KTNH's website. (It's a rewrite of this article, Don't Spook Kids By Giving Non-Nutritious Candy This Halloween! Hand Out Fun, Glow-in-the-Dark Objects, Kazoos...

Almost on the eve of Halloween, the biggest candy-pushing day of the year, the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) delivered horrifying new obesity estimates for kids. Get ready to be downright frightened: Childhood obesity is expected to double by the end of the decade! And, this is, in part, due, the IOTF finds, to historic food policies which have led to distorted food supplies and prices, FoodNavigator.com/Europe reports. Just look at these alarming figures: By 2010, almost 287 million kids around the world will be obese, and by 2015, a whopping 700 million children will be weighing down the planet....