Raising awareness of type 2 diabetes

Scientists at Naresuan University in Thailand have found a link between poisons used in farming and Type 2 diabetes. Their work was reported on in the journal Environmental Health and Prevention Medicine in January of 2018. The researchers compared lifetime pesticide exposure in 866 people who had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes with 1021 nondiabetic individuals. The diabetes cases were linked with exposure to all types of pesticides.

There is a lot of talk about adults who are dealing with Type 2 diabetes and how it is best for them to manage their blood sugar levels and their body weight. But what about children who have Type 2 diabetes? If your children are dealing with excess body weight, unstable blood sugar levels and have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, or they are showing signs of prediabetes, it is important you as their parent are mindful of their nutrition. While it can be a challenge to get your children to eat anything healthy, you need to persist. By giving them options that will not cause huge blood sugar fluctuations, you can prevent unwanted symptoms from occurring.

Scientists at Yokohama City University Medical Center and several other research centers in Japan noted people who had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes often have either long or short intervals of sleep, but little was known about the quality of sleep they experienced. In January of 2018, the online journal PLOS ONE reported on the Yokohama study, showing sleep quality was poor in people with Type 2 diabetes who had poor blood sugar control.

One popular diet you may have heard about is the Zone diet. And you may have read many people have found good results; but is it ideal for those who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes? Let us take a closer look.

In January of 2018, the journal Acta Otolaryngology reported on a study of hearing in people who had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Scientists at the Capital Medical University in Beijing, China found having prediabetes or full-blown Type 2 diabetes can raise the risk of hearing problems. They studied 51 people who had diabetes, 55 with prediabetes, and 43 healthy participants. The researchers performed hearing tests on all the participants and used a medical history questionnaire to learn which of the participants suffered ringing in their ears.

The health and nutrition industry has been all agog for some years now about chia seeds, one of the so-called super-foods. But can they really reverse type 2 diabetes? Are they as healthy as they are hyped up to be? Do they have any negative side-effects? How should you eat them?