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Aggressive diabetes care doesn't prevent deaths
kavin submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Aggressively treating diabetes does not prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar. 
Blocking brain enzyme helped mice stay slim
kavin submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (feeds.feedburner.com)
In this study, the researchers found that blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control. While much more research lies ahead, they said the finding may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans. 


Diabetes study has surprising results
Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.signonsandiego.com)
The doctors' challenge: explain to 21 million Americans with diabetes how they might be affected by a major study's surprise discovery that lower blood sugar levels are linked to greater numbers of deaths. 


Diabetics who lower their blood sugar gain an increased risk of heart disease
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
For years, people thought that if diabetics could lower their blood sugar to non-diabetic levels, their increased risk of heart disease would go away. Not so! A U.S. federal study on patients with type II diabetes shows that, in diabetics, a low blood sugar level leads to increased risk of heart attack. The study, which has been in the works since the 1990s, has been halted.
It is still believed to be true that a low blood sugar level reduces the risk of kidney damage, blindness and amputations 


Caffeine ups blood sugar level in diabetics
sumsung submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)
Cutting down on caffeine could help people with the most common form of diabetes better control their blood sugar levels, researchers said on Monday. Giving caffeine to a small group of people with type 2 diabetes caused their levels of the blood sugar glucose to rise through the day, especially after meals, researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, found. 


Smart Insulin Nanostructures Pass Feasibility Test, UT Study Reports
benjiamin submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (publicaffairs.uth.tmc.edu)
Biomedical engineers at the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating the feasibility of a smart particle insulin release system that detects spikes in glucose or blood sugar levels and releases insulin to counteract them 


Right breakfast bread keeps blood sugar in check all day
davis submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.eurekalert.org)
If you eat the right grains for breakfast, such as whole-grain barley or rye, the regulation of your blood sugar is facilitated after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was previously not known that certain whole-grain products have this effect all day. This is due to a combination of low GI (glycemic index) and certain type of indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products. 


sustenance or sugar,is that a rush?
007RA submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.newscientist.com)
The sugar-rush myth stems from what is known as the oral glucose tolerance test, which measures blood glucose levels in people who have fasted overnight and are then given a super-sweet glucose drink. 


Blood sugar's manufacture limited by building blocks' supply
medal submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.biologynews.net)
"Researchers have discovered a factor that controls blood sugar's manufacture in a novel way: by limiting the supply of its building blocks. The findings are reported in the April issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press." 


Gift Cards Proposed as Health Incentive
julie submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (hosted.ap.org)
"Feeling good? Go shopping. Democrats in the Minnesota state Senate want to give publicly insured patients $20 gift cards to stores such as Target as an incentive to follow their doctor's orders.... " 
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