Diabetes News

Note from Connie: Kudos to my blogging researcher/writer for writing about this astounding development. Your jaw may drop as you read this. What do you think of this? New York's City Council took a step toward fighting obesity by voting to issue 1,000 permits to street vendors to sell fresh fruits and vegetables in low-income neighborhoods, Reuters reports. Sounds like a great idea. Who would be against making more delicious, nutritious fresh produce available to more people? Well, unfortunately, City Councilman John Liu, who represents a district in the borough of Queens, for one. "If people wanted this produce, the...

Are you suffering from a nightmarish, overwhelming eating disorder? Or is a loved one trapped in that horrific hell? Are you at a complete loss as to how to help? Get hope, help and information on Friday, Feb. 29 at 3 p.m. EST, when I will host a special radio show, "Eating Disorders: From Hell to Hope, Health & Healing With a Panel of 2 Experts, 2 Former Sufferers." This special one-hour Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Radio Show panel -- which you can listen to here -- is timed to coincide with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, where a number of...

Did you catch my uplifting, captivating interview today on the Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Radio Show with the motivational Lisa Nichols, one of the teachers in "The Secret"? Lisa -- who you may have seen on the "Oprah" show -- has a gift to get you to dream big, "play full out," as she puts it, and make your goals a reality. Catch the Lisa Nichols interview here now. Get ready to be inspired!

Unless you've been hiding in a cave, you've certainly heard of the mega-blockbuster movie and book, The Secret. And you've probably heard about Lisa Nichols, one of the most charismatic teachers featured in the movie and book. Well, tomorrow, Tuesday, at 11:30 am EST (8:30 am PST), I'm pleased to present Lisa in a sure-to-be inspirational and helpful Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Radio Show. Make sure to join us live or afterwards. Listen live here or just visit here after he show is over, and listen at your own convenience.

Note from Connie: Already we've heard about numerous studies that link culprit carbs with cancer. Now a new review paper just published in Lancet finds a connection between obesity and developing several kinds of cancer. Jennifer updates you. After reviewing 141 medical articles, lead author Andrew Renehan, Ph.D., of the UK's University of Manchester and his colleagues reviewed found that in men, increases in body mass index (BMI) were "strongly associated" with colon, renal, thyroid and esophageal cancer. Meanwhile, in women, BMI increases had strong associations to endometrial, esophageal, renal and gallbladder cancers. The scientists discovered weaker links between excess...

Preliminary and as-yet unpublished results of an international diabetes and heart disease trial based in Australia, called ADVANCE, indicate that intensive drug treatment to lower blood sugar doesn't increase the chance of death in type 2 diabetics, according to the ADVANCE press release. This contradicts the findings of a similar U.S. trial, called ACCORD, which found that subjects following an intensive drug- and insulin-regimen died at higher rates than those whose received standard treatment. (Click here for this blog's report on the ACCORD trial.) The two trials were similar but not identical, as reporter Sue Hughes of WebMD's Heartwire news...

Forgive me for not posting as much the last few days, but I've been knee deep in my follow-up book to SUGAR SHOCK! My mission with this book is to give you what you want and need -- so please help me to help YOU! I'm eager to hear from you so send me your ideas and suggestions. What would you like to see in my follow-up book to SUGAR SHOCK? What would help you and your loved ones? Please let me know now what you'd like to see in my next book. I will read all or your responses...

Note from Connie: Yet another study citing the benefits of whole grains was just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The findings are consistent with previous research. Jennifer gives you the details. Researchers at Penn State University assigned 50 randomly-chosen obese adults with metabolic syndrome to either get all their grains from whole grain sources or to avoid whole grains in favor of refined ones for 12 weeks. Both groups cut 500 calories a day from their diet and otherwise received the same advice on how to eat. While all 50 dieters lost weight and belly fat over...

I have tough areas on my lower abdomen and buttocks where I injected insulin for over 17 years. Is there anything that can be done about these areas? Read Dr. Hirsch's answer...

Yet another medical study suggests that "diet" drinks and foods just aren't an effective weight loss tool. More specifically, this new study -- from researchers at Purdue University -- reveal that artificially sweetened foods may make you gain -- rather than lose -- weight. What's more, you could pack on body fat to boot. Not only that, but these fake sugar substitutes many cause more weight gain than sugar. Pretty compelling findings, right? But don't take this as license to ditch the sugar substitutes and go for the sugar instead. (As readers of SUGAR SHOCK! know, I'm not a fan...