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Resolve to Live Healthy in the New Year

Type 2 diabetes is the kind of disease that responds to healthy eating habits, weight loss and exercise. Lessen your risk for complications or even reverse diabetes by losing weight, eating healthy and exercising. What a way to ring in the New Year!

More Tools for a Healthy 2009!

Diabetes Blog with Debra Manzella, R.N.

Have You Added Cinnamon to Your Diet? Take Our Poll

Friday January 9, 2009
One of the most popular blogs on the diabetes website is about studies that showed that cinnamon may lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

The blog got over 20 comments, as people wrote in to talk about their experiences with adding cinnamon to their diet, and the effects that cinnamon had on their blood sugar and cholesterol. Results were varied, but overall, most people who posted a comment seemed to have varying degrees of success with cinnamon.

Have you tried cinnamon? What were your results? Take the poll on the right and find out if others have had good results.

Read more about the cinnamon study...

Read the blog and reader comments...

Would you like to comment on this poll, on cinnamon, or on your experiences? Hit the comment button below.

*As always, please check with your doctor before adding any supplements to your diabetes treatments. Never stop taking your medications without talking to your doctor.

Use Calorie Count to Keep Those New Year's Resolutions

Wednesday January 7, 2009
Calorie Count, a free service from About.com, can help you stay focused on your diet plans as you start the New Year. Type 2 diabetes is best managed with a healthy diet and by maintaining a healthy weight. Calorie Count is a great online diet tool and can make your life a little easier. You can keep track of what you eat, find out the nutritional facts on thousands of foods, find out how many calories you're burning with exercise, and talk to other like-minded health conscious people. So...
  • Get started and learn how to analyze your foods or get support
  • Determine your diet profile. Take our test and learn about your food habits
  • Get inspired by 1,160,038 fellow enthusiasts and connect with thousands of Calorie Counters online right now
Make your New Year a healthy one.

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Type 2 Diabetes Appears to Cause Early Mental Changes

Wednesday January 7, 2009
A study from the University of Alberta, Canada has suggested that people with type 2 diabetes may suffer a decline in some kinds of mental function. Most other diabetes complications come later as the disease progresses, but these mental changes appear to happen early in the disease process.

In a comparison of healthy adults and adults with diabetes, two cognitive areas, executive function and speed, showed a worsening in the participants with diabetes.

What is executive function? Among other things, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, it's the group of mental functions that help us keep track of more than one thing at a time, make plans and evaluate ideas. Diabetes also appears to affect the speed of our thought processes as well.

If there is good news, it's that these deficits don't appear to get any worse with age, or length of time that a person has diabetes.

Read the study here...

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Reverse Diabetes Around the World... One Person at a Time

Wednesday December 31, 2008
Type 2 diabetes affects people in almost every country on this planet. Rates of diabetes are rising globally. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates there are almost 250 million people with diabetes worldwide.

With so many diverse lifestyles and cultures around the world, what are the factors that are leading to the rise in diabetes? Industrialization has played a huge role in the increase of diabetes. According to the IDF, the main reasons diabetes is on the rise are...

  • Aging population
  • Unhealthy diet
  • Overweight and obesity
  • A sedentary lifestyle
So, as diabetes spreads across the globe, the fight begins with each individual person.
  • Get enough exercise, at least 30 minutes, 5 times a week
  • Keep your weight as near to normal as possible
  • Try to eat a healthy diet, avoiding processed, sugar-laden, and fast foods; while increasing fiber, fresh vegetables and fruits, and lean meats and fish.
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