Posts Tagged ‘Diabetes’
Diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease
Most people do not believe that diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease. But it is. At least two of every three people with diabetes die from cardiovascular disease.
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) [National Programme for Diabetes Education (Registrar may)], an initiative of the National Institutes of Health [National Institutes of Health (NIH)] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], urging people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels to prevent or delay heart disease.
Type 2 diabetes, previously called adult-onset diabetes, accounts for 90 to 95 percent of the 16 million Americans with diabetes. This number has increased six times in the past 40 years, partly as a result of increasing age, obesity, physical inactivity and hereditary factors. Read the rest of this entry »
Ginseng decreases blood glucose
Scientists have discovered an exciting new potential treatment of diabetes. They found that the popular herb ginseng lowers blood glucose levels, when used in conjunction with meals.
Although there is no medical evidence on their therapeutic efficacy, the use of herbs in medicine has increased considerably. Ginseng, one of the most popular herbs, over time, has come to be considered useful for controlling blood glucose in diabetic patients.
To test this hypothesis, researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, examined the effects of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in type 2 diabetics and nondiabetics. The study was conducted by Dr. Vladimir Vuksan, and the results were published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »