Molecular link between insulin resistance, inflammation identified
Updated: 2010-04-30 05:10:55
WASHINGTON - Scientists from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a molecular link between insulin resistance and inflammation.
According to senior author Dr H. Henry Dong, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, signs of low-grade systemic inflammation are common among people who have the pre-diabetic condition known as metabolic syndrome, as [...]
Exclusive : Rock Band Unplugged Track List Add to : My AOL MyYahoo Google Bloglines : Note The contents of this blog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or substitute for professional care . For medical emergencies , dial 911 The Relationship Between Diabetes and Depression Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:00AM by Amber Greviskes Filed under : Research Depression and diabetes are often seen in the same patients , but does one cause the other It's no doubt that the stress of living with diabetes can make patients depressed . Research presented at the 2006 American Diabetes Association meeting may complete the circle . Research suggests that certain hormonal changes that accompany depression may lead to diabetes . And a surprising analysis from a large
: Advanced Click Image To Enlarge Ember at 7 Months Number 88 November 1, 2005 My most recent articles : are The first issue of new magazine called Type 2 Life includes two articles that I wrote . Novartis Pharmaceuticals , which markets Starlix nateglinide publishes it to deliver objective , lifestyle-oriented information to people who have type 2 diabetes . 8221 I guess that’s why they asked me to write for it . Novartis reps are providing the magazine to doctors so they can put it in their waiting rooms . My article on When to Test and Why” points out the evidence for the current shift to testing after meals , rather than before breakfast , at least for people whose diabetes is well controlled . This shift is good for Novartis and its Starlix , because that drug can help control mealtime highs . The URL is http : mendosa.com when_to_test.htm My other article in the first issue of Type 2 Life is about what is perhaps the most important treatment for diabetes and probably the one most honored in the breach exercise . Writing this article certainly was good for me , because I now exercise more . I hope that you will too . As I took a long , slow walk this morning because of newly
: Advanced Number 80 March 1, 2005 Crystal Mill , Colorado Photo by Sam Toscano This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Birds for Better Blood Glucose Testing I had a lot of fun writing the fanciful headline for this article . But the subject of the article , the work being done by Pelikan Technologies in Palo Alto , California , is both serious and extremely promising . This company has developed the electronically-controlled Pelikan Sun lancing system , which we would usually spell as Pelican in English . That’s one of the birds . The other bird is their acquisition , Albatros(s which developed the GlucoSens blood glucose meter . Together these two companies have developed a promising combination . A recent contribution by someone else : is Paying Attention To Our Bodies I didn’t know Cherie Burbach until she wrote me . Like me , Cherie is a writer who has diabetes and who has written about her
: Advanced Number 61 August 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have . written Along our Garden Path I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Traveling with Insulin It’s not too late to start thinking about a summer vacation . In fact , if you can swing it , the best time might be after Labor Day , when the kids are back in school . However , if you think that adventure travel is out for you because you need to keep your insulin cool in a refrigerator , you now have choices that can free you to wander as you would . My new article on insulin carrying cases sounds mundane when you put it that way , but not when you think of the freedom that these carrying cases can give you . Finally , the revised edition of the low-carb bible for people with diabetes Dr . Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution This is a review of a new book , so maybe I should list it in the book review section below . But it’s here because it is an article
: Advanced Number 57 April 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution : is Take Your Vitamins and Minerals For most people the greatest effect of taking supplements of vitamins and minerals may be expensive urine . But not for people with diabetes . Researchers at two universities in North Carolina studied the effect of these supplements on the rate and severity of infections among the elderly and among people with type 2 diabetes . They were surprised to find no benefit to the elderly . They were even more surprised to find a huge benefit for people with type 2 diabetes . The URL is http : www.mendosa.com vitamin.htm Insulin Index Back in December I wrote a brief item in this newsletter , http : www.mendosa.com diabetes_update_27.htm about the Insulin Index for the first time . Now I have expanded it to include the complete but still small list of foods tested for their effect on insulin circulating in
: Advanced Number 45 September 16, 2002 Hannah Mendosa This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on September 16, 2002 Guidelines on Testing and Everything After writing the Testing After Meals” section below , I realized that I could adapt it to make a good column on the American Diabetes Association's Web site . Using testing as the peg , the column has , however , a different emphasis . It’s on the guidelines where we can find the answers to questions like when to test . It’s on-line now at http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp on September 10, 2002 Mendosa Light” I wonder if some newbies might be overwhelmed by the vast resources available on your site , quot one of my most regular correspondents wrote me a few days ago . I wonder if it would work to have a Mendosa light” Web page for newbies , which would list only the most essential information . 8221 Since this is a pretty
: Advanced Number 53 January 16, 2003 Rafting down the Green” River This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : Email News In my current column on the Web site of the American Diabetes Association I come close to giving away the big secret of how I keep up-to-date on diabetes developments . The column covers news sources that you can subscribe to and have them come directly into your email inbox . These are pretty good sources , but frankly they don’t compare to Google News and Yahoo News . Also , I didn’t mention What’s New With Children with Diabetes , because its presentation leaves so much to be desired . However , I always find interesting links there . It comes by email every Sunday evening , and you can subscribe at http : www.castleweb.com:81 guest RemoteListSummary cwd_whatsnew The URL for my column on Email News is http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp Updates : include
: Advanced Number 40 July 1, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on July 1, 2002 Local Support Groups The Internet may be wonderful , but so far we haven't figured out how to teleport each other so that we can actually meet . In the meantime , there is no substitute for local support groups . But the Internet is still in most cases the best way to find these important local resources . It was surprisingly difficult for me to figure out where to go . The URL is http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp : Update on June 24, 2002 Are Dates Low Glycemic I love dates , particularly the soft , juicy medjool variety that we grow in California's Coachella Valley , near where I grew up . But I didn't eat too many of them because their reported glycemic index is so high—103 where glucose 100. But now as I write I am happily snacking on three dates . It turns out that they are probably
: Advanced Number 70 May 1, 2004 Yours Truly This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Dreamfields Pasta Spaghetti , linguini , and macaroni are among the greatest contributions of Italian cuisine to the American diet , rating right up there with pizza and espresso . Yet this pasta is one of the first pleasures that many people with diabetes give up when they get their diagnosis . We find that the 40 or so grams of carbohydrate in a small , 2 ounce portion has just too great of an effect on our blood glucose levels . This is to say nothing of those of us who are simply following a low-carb diet . Now , almost miraculously , help is at hand . Using a totally new low-carb process , Dreamfields Pasta has just introduced four pasta products spaghetti , linguini , elbows or macaroni and penne rigate that have the same taste and texture as normal pasta , but promise to have little effect on
: Advanced Number 58 May 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have . written I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Advances in Lancets Lancets have been the undervalued step-child of the blood glucose meter business . Not any more . In this article I offer my sincere appreciation for the brand new BD Ultra-Fine 33 Lancets and the forthcoming electronic lancet cartridge from Pelikan Technologies . The Glycemic Index of Common American Foods Visitors to my Web site have requested something like this file more than anything else . Until now , I have begged off , referring them to lists that I made years ago when only some 300 foods had been tested for their glycemic indexes . Those lists are seriously out-of-date now that 750 foods have been tested . If you can use this list , thank the editor of my forthcoming book , What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up . And Down And 101 Other Frequently Asked Questions About Your Blood
: Advanced Number 52 January 2, 2003 Our Garden This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : e-Patients Like it or not , we are all rapidly becoming e-Patients . That’s shorthand for patients who use the Internet to gather information about the condition that they hire doctors to treat . And the doctors often like it not . Patients with opinions sometimes get in their way . These doctors have to suck it up and deal with it , 8221 in the expressive phrase of today’s youth . The URL for my column on e-Patients is http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp Updates : include Trans Fats I take it back . In an earlier issue of this newsletter I had the audacity to criticize our government . I wrote that the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed change to Nutrition Facts panel will not go far enough . 8221 It won’t list a Daily Value because the Institute of Medicine’s report on which the FDA
: Advanced Number 37 May 15, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on May 15, 2002 INGAP Peptide When a company better known for its soap than its pharmaceutical products invests in a promising cure for diabetes , it's big news . Particularly when the company is Procter Gamble , famous for Tide , Pampers , and about 300 brands of household products . Less well known is its drug division , Procter Gamble Pharmaceuticals . Its best known products are Prilosec and Plendil for which it has co-marketing agreements . It doesn't have any diabetes drugs on the market , but its investment in INGAP Peptide could be the biggest blockbuster ever . Think cure for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes . That's the hope . The URL is http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp : Update on May 8, 2002 JAMA Supports the . G.I The G.I . in question is no soldier . It's the glycemic index , and a Special
: Advanced Number 77 December 1, 2004 A Colorado Lake This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Keynote Address The day after the election I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address to Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons Program in Menlo Park , California . I attended the entire conference and got a lot out of it , not least the inspiration to buy and actually use a treadmill and weights . You can read my article on my site at Keynote Address Incorrect Diabetes Terms While the conference that I spoke at last month was great , some speakers threw around incorrect diabetes terms , like calling us diabetics . 8221 Nobody referred to any of us as noncompliant , 8221 another terms that many of us take exception to . For my directory of what I see as these incorrect terms , please read Incorrect Diabetes Terms I am sure that you can think of even more such terms than I list . If so , please
: Advanced Number 75 October 1, 2004 My Favorite Vermeer This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contribution : is Coding Nowadays codes can be awfully difficult or even impossible to crack . Fortunately , the codes that you have to enter on most blood glucose monitors are much easier . Still , we often miss the mark . What happens when you miscode your meter And what meters don’t need to be coded To find out the answers to these questions please read the article that I wrote for the October 2004 issue of Diabetes Health It is now also on my site at http : www.mendosa.com coding.htm U : pdates Niacin The American medical establishment continues to push the statin drugs as if it were the only game in town . It isn’t . The statins are indeed big business . Sales of these six drugs exceeded 15 billion last year , according to SmartMoney.com Two of the statins , Lipitor and Zocor , ranked No . 1 and No . 2 respectively
: Advanced Number 47 October 16, 2002 Rick and His Cockatiels This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on October 15, 2002 Nutrition.Gov Cynics are the best investigative reporters . I’m not cynical , and that's probably why I have only one real exposé to my credit in all my years in journalism . I’m not complaining , because those of us who aren’t cynical have longer and happier lives . But I am giving you warning that I tend to trust the motivation of others . Even when those others work for the U.S . government . I am as aware as anyone of the corruption and self-dealing of many of those in power . But most of the time I know from my own experience , including 15 years as a government bureaucrat , that most people in our government call it like it is . This , I believe , is especially true in the field of nutrition , a field that could not be more important to those of us with diabetes . So , now that
: Advanced Number 73 August 1, 2004 Keep Your Chin Up With permission of Graham Jeffery This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Pill Splitting When several months ago I wrote the article on pill splitting for the July issue of Diabetes Wellness News it was of general interest . I didn’t think that it would apply to me . After all , my health insurance covered the cost of all of my pills except for a reasonable co-pay . Now , however , I have health insurance that has a low cap on brand-name prescriptions . That’s because in a few days we are moving from California to Boulder , Colorado , where we had to get a different health plan . So , from now on I will be splitting as many of my prescription drugs as I can . To see why and which please read my article . It is now on my site at http : www.mendosa.com pill_splitting.htm Love Your Meter If you have diabetes and don’t love your blood glucose meter ,
: Advanced Number 48 October 31, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : Our Hearts In my current column for the American Diabetes Association’s Web site I tell more about my medical condition and than most people would be comfortable with saying . My limited concern with privacy is probably obvious to anyone who takes the time to read my online autobiography , particularly part 2, David Mendosa’s Radical Years I realize that most people have good reason not to divulge their medical condition . I’m lucky that none of the Web sites and magazines that I write for are going to fire me because I have diabetes and less than perfect cholesterol numbers . Diabetes and high cholesterol actually go together a lot more than I imagined before I started to write about the Heart Profilers” on the Web site of the American Heart Association . For my column I look at the grim heart statistics for people with diabetes
: Advanced Number 78 January 1, 2005 Fireweed at Trappers Lake , Colorado This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are The Mangosteen Myth Have you ever heard of the marvels of mangosteen If not , you can join the club . I never heard about it until last month . Among a multitude of other benefits , it is supposed to reduce blood glucose . So I investigated mangosteen . This article originally appeared December 25, 2004, on Mendosa.com as The Mangosteen Myth The Medicare Mystery While the benefits of mangosteen may be purely a myth , how to take advantage of Medicare is for most of us a mystery . I do my best to unravel this riddle in my article that originally appeared in the December 2004 issue of Diabetes Health which is now also online as The Medicare Mystery U : pdate Drug Interactions Last month’s issue of Diabetes Update linked four websites that provide drug interactions . I asked readers for
: Advanced Number 65 December 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new , articles Web pages , and books that I have . written I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Insulin Detemir It was five years ago that I started to learn about the next hot new insulin to hit the market . It isn’t here yet , but its time is nigh , and I think that it was worth the wait . If you now take insulin , think that you might someday , or know somebody that does , it will probably be worth your while to read my article about insulin detemir . Like Lantus , this is a very long-acting insulin . Furthermore , it may have some distinct advantages . B ook : Reviews John and Ruth Update their Insulin Bible Using Insulin If they think about it at all , most folks assume that only people with type 1 diabetes take insulin , while the rest of us get by on oral medications or sometimes just diet and exercise . The confusion is understandable , because until just a few years ago the name for type 2
: Advanced Number 82 May 1, 2005 Ember Our Akita Puppy , Age 8 Weeks This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are ExtendBars and the Dawn Phenomenon It’s pretty clear that ExtendBars can help control nighttime hypos . But the manufacturer is also claiming on the basis of one small , short study that they can also reduce the dawn phenomenon by 28 percent . The dawn phenomenon is something that concerns me and many of my readers . So when the ExtendBar company president sent me a dozen of his new low-carb bars , I was delighted to put them to the test . But I was not so delighted with the results . The URL is ExtendBars and the Dawn Phenomenon Tracking the GlucoLeader One of the new meters from HMD BioMedical in Titusville , Florida , does something that you can’t do with any other meter on the market right now . It automatically uploads your readings to family or health care professionals all without
: Advanced Number 55 February 14, 2003 At the Headwaters of the Nile This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : Hypoglycemic Supplies When you get an insulin reaction , you often feel so miserable that you want to treat it as fast as possible . But if you overtreat it , you run the risk of rebounding too high . Fortunately , I don't take insulin or one of the oral medications that can cause us to go low . But people who use insulin can treat the inevitable lows it by taking about 15 grams of glucose tablets . Yet people often do that reluctantly . Why are they reluctant They know that nothing worked quicker and that the standardized dose would not lead to high blood sugar . Yet they know that the glucose tabs don’t taste all that good . Besides , they may want the excuse to eat some tasty bread that normally they can’t get enough of . The problem with bread is that , while it’s glycemic index may be quite
: Advanced Number 38 June 3, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on June 3, 2002 Native American Diabetes Too often in my early work experience I didn't quite fit . When I worked in the Bureau for Africa of the U.S . Agency for International Development , my skin wasn't dark enough . Then when I shifted to the agency's Office of Population I would never have risen to the top because it was run by M.D . s and I was just a M.A . When I sold bookkeeping services to small businesses , I hadn't yet had the experience of running my own . When I sold shoes to women , there was no way I could wear them . When I was an editor at Hispanic Business magazine , I wasn't Hispanic enough being part Portuguese descent didn't count with the publisher Now as I write about diabetes I know from my personal experience what it is . I feel doubly connected to the subject of my current column for the American Diabetes
: Advanced Click Image To Enlarge Flatirons with Poppies , Boulder Number 87 October 1, 2005 My most recent article : is Setting Performance Standards for Continuous Monitors For the vital but unheralded work of determining how the new continuous sensors should function , please read my current Meter News” column in the October issue of Diabetes Health magazine . You can also read it on my website at http : www.mendosa.com standards.htm U : pdates When to Go to an Endocrinologist Dr . Bill Quick is my favorite endocrinologist and a good friend . We have worked together for the last 10 years to bring accurate and helpful information about diabetes to the Web . He has one of the very best websites about diabetes at diabetesmonitor.com Back in August 1998 an editor at the former Diabetes Interview magazine now Diabetes Health assigned me to write an article about When should a patient with diabetes be referred to a specialist I thought that it would be a great subject , and so did that editor . But as often happens in the publishing world , a new editor came in and killed the article . Meanwhile , I had asked my friend Bill for some of his thoughts on the subject . Bill’s response was
: Advanced Number 60 July 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new , articles columns , and Web pages that I have . written Arthur and Gus—Good Friends I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Chromium : Perhaps Good , Perhaps Harmful Honestly , now , how many of you have ever bitten the hand that feeds you You haven’t It’s not a civilized thing to do and only wild animals do that . Exactly . I don’t mean to imply that researchers who are paid by the companies whose products they test feel any conflict of interest , but if they were negative about those products , it would certainly be biting the hand that had fed them . That’s why I don’t buy the clean bill of health that leading worldwide experts” gave to chromium picolinate in the recent so-called chromium summit” in Boston sponsored by The Council for the Advancement of Diabetes Research and Education CADRE It is indeed a non-profit organization , 8221 according to Diabetes In Control.Com Nevertheless , that’s
: Advanced Number 54 January 31, 2003 Typical California Sunset This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : Third-Generation Meters The third generation of blood glucose meters is here . These meters check our blood glucose level continuously . The payoff is much better control than we have ever had possible before . Two third-generation meters are already on the market . While so far they have serious limitations , at least 10 other companies are working as fast as they can to overcome these handicaps . Continuous testing is really the meter Holy Grail . It’s a giant step beyond the essentially painless alternative site meters that I dubbed second-generation meters” in my September 15, 2001, column on the Web site of the American Diabetes Association . The first of these meters , Amira Medical’s AtLast , hit the market in December 1999. Like all revolutionary products , this meter had some limitations and
: Advanced Number 50 December 2, 2002 My Little Chimp Friend Upcountry Liberia , 1971 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : on December 2, 2002 A1c The folks who sponsor the Diabetes A1c Initiative failed to ask for my support , so I will try to help with what I write about it . The campaign features a team of patient advocates known as A1c Champions who will tour the country and give tips about keeping diabetes under control . If I believe in anything , it is the importance of controlling my diabetes and that regular A1c tests are the best measure that I have to make sure that I am doing that . My A1c had crept up to 6.8 last year . That was enough to get me to ask my endocrinologist to prescribe metformin . My most recent test a few months ago came in at 6.2, precisely the point where the U.K . Prospective Diabetes Study says that complications begin . Those A1c Champions who are fated to have to
: Advanced Number 49 November 15, 2002 Catching Lions Serengeti Plain , Tanzania , 1968 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : Our Kidneys Just call me Pollyanna . You are probably younger than I am , so you may be too young to know that Pollyanna is a children’s classic by Eleanor H . Porter published in 1913. Pollyanna was always looking for something to be glad about , and so am I . Currently , in my About the Internet” column I am thankful that so many of us have diabetes . I am sorry that each of us personally has a disease with such serious complications . But because we are such a crowd , many companies and organizations are here to help us . The current column is about the Kidney and Urology Foundation and other organizations , including the American Diabetes Association , that are out there for one of the most severe complications of diabetes . Kidney disease affects from 10 to 21 percent of
Advanced David Mendosa's Diabetes Directory Tracking Diabetes on the Web Since 1995 Most Recent Update : January 29, 2010 This is a directory of diabetes-related Web pages on this site and other Web pages written by me at the Web sites of the American Diabetes Association and elsewhere . I am a freelance journalist and consultant specializing in writing about diabetes , which I have . Advice for Newbies If you are newly diagnosed with diabetes , welcome to the club that no one asked to join . But now that you are here , please start with Advice for Newbies You can find out more information about me and why I maintain this Web site on the following pages : The Diabetes Self-Management blog published my article , Why I Low Carb , in December 2008. You can read the mirror of this article here at mendosa.com lowcarb.htm Jimmy Moore recently interviewed me for his low-carb blog . You can hear the interview at David Mendosa Talks Low-Carb and Diabetes Episode 169 My Keynote Address to the Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons Program at the Quadrus Conference Center in Menlo Park , California , on November 3, 2004, is my most recent and most detailed presentation about my website
: Advanced Number 83 June 1, 2005 A Deer Animal With permission of Graham Jeffery This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about diabetes . I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contribution : is The GlycoMark Option Aren’t daily fingersticks and quarterly A1C checks enough Maybe not . Now we can get a GlycoMark test . It has just become available in this country . Developed by two companies in Japan , it has , however , been used there for more than a decade . What it does best is to reflect blood glucose spikes after you eat . For people who have their diabetes under pretty good control that can be the key to doing even better . I wrote about the GlycoMark test for my Meter News” column in the June issue of Diabetes Health magazine . My column is also online at http : www.mendosa.com glycomark.htm R esearch : Notes Another Drug Choice Coming Soon , we will probably have another class of drugs to help control blood glucose levels . The Food and Drug Administration is
: Advanced Number 56, March 1, 2003 Gus at 9 Weeks Melissa’s Pembroke Welsh Corgi This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : The Food Police The publisher of Diabetes Digest told me that his magazine accepted an article from my Web site about the food police . 8221 Diabetes Digest is distributed free at over 15,000 major pharmacies . With a total circulation of over 5 million copies , it is the largest circulation diabetes magazine . Meanwhile , you can read my article , Beware the Food Police , 8221 on my Web site . The URL is http : www.mendosa.com food_police.htm Research Notes FenuLife Fenugreek Two years ago when I interviewed Dr . P.V . Rao by calling him in Hyderabad , India , he told me that fenugreek had been mentioned in Ayurvedic literature as a treatment for diabetes . Dr . Rao heads the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the School of Diabetology of the Nizam’s Institute of Medical
Advanced Number 42 August 1, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : on August 1, 2002 Diabetes-Sight I'm sure that every one of you gets an annual eye exam . You are the elite , those people who control their diabetes . Unfortunately , the hoi polloi are different . I was shocked when I heard that less than half of all Americans diagnosed with diabetes have their eyes examined annually . To encourage the masses in this noble quest is the mission of the people who run the new Diabetes-Sight site for which I cite the URL , http : www.diabetes-sight.org The URL for my column on the ADA Web site about Diabetes-Sight is http : www.diabetes.org main community info_news web default.jsp on July 29, 2002 Advanced Glycemic Load Data A correspondent named Ralph Brown , who is an Excel expert , took the new table of glycemic index and glycemic load values at http : www.mendosa.com gilists.htm and added new
: Advanced Number 72 July 1, 2004 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Meter News Column : Strip Costs I am delighted to report that I am again writing a regular column for a diabetes publication . This is my third go at columnizing . Between 1997 and 2003 I reviewed diabetes-related Web sites for the American Diabetes Association in my column About the Internet . 8221 I also wrote seven columns for LXN Corporation’s website as the e-Charged Newsletter” in 2001, until LifeScan bought LXN and discontinued the company’s site as well as all of its products , including the In Charge and Duet meters . Both sets of columns are now online at my site . By permission of the editor my new columns will also appear on my site following publication . My first Meter News” appeared in the inaugural June 2004 issue of Diabetes Health While this is a totally new magazine , it is also the successor of Diabetes
: Advanced Number 67 February 1, 2004 Grand Canyon and Colorado River 1968 photo by David Mendosa This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contribution : is Acidic Foods I’ve been getting more and more questions about how certain acidic foods can help us control our blood glucose . At the same time few people have any idea how certain vinegars , lemons , limes and even sourdough bread can help us control our blood glucose levels . I wrote about it once before in my book What Makes My Blood Glucose Level Go Up—and Down Jennie Brand-Miller , Kaye Foster-Powell and I are the joint authors . But since I doubt if all of you have the book—and because I added new information—I think most of you will find this a useful article . It’s on my website at Acidic Foods U : pdate I keep updating my favorite My Favorite Low Carb and Low GI Foods as I discover good new foods that I love . That Web page
: Advanced Number 46 October 4, 2002 Sammy Mendosa This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contribution is : Trans Fat Sometimes what the experts tell us to eat is wrong . Very occasionally they will admit their mistake and tell you that what you were doing before they butted in was fine . No , I’m not talking about the high carb diet that most healthcare providers tell those of us with diabetes is what we should eat . Nobody’s eating crow over that one , even if it’s clear that it would be lower glycemic . What the medical establishment is saying , however , is that they made a big , deadly mistake when they said we should switch from butter to margarine . Now , half a century later , after untold thousands or millions of us died prematurely , they admit that the trans fat in most but not all margarines is even worse that the saturated fat in butter . It’s not that saturated fat is good for us , but rather that no amount
: Advanced Click Image To Enlarge Two Ducklings , One Kitten Number 86 September 1, 2005 My most recent articles : are Recent Research Reports Whatever you think about the American Diabetes Association , you have to admit that this rather conservative organization sponsors conventions where thousands of scientists present the latest research on everything related to diabetes . There is nothing of the kind larger than its 65th Annual Scientific Sessions in San Diego this summer . It included 55 abstracts dealing with blood glucose testing . Especially interesting were four presentations that looked at testing on the palm of the hand . For my review of these and the other most important abstracts , please read my current Meter News” column in the September issue of Diabetes Health magazine or read it on my website at http : www.mendosa.com research.htm My Chinese Book Fourth Edition of My Book Now that this newsletter has about 10,000 subscribers , there must be a few of you who read Chinese better than you read English . I have just what you have been waiting for the Chinese edition of my first book , What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up And Down I wrote it a couple of years with
: Advanced Number 74 September 1, 2004 Boulder , Colorado , Where I Moved Last Month This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are GlucoMON It’s not often that I review products for people with diabetes . I just can’t get excited about many of them . But the GlucoMON is special . There is nothing like it for keeping in touch with the glucose readings on somebody else’s monitor . That somebody else is usually a child , but anyone who can check their blood can use this device . The GlucoMON is more like a cell phone than anything else . But the key , says founder and CEO Kevin McMahon , is not that it is wireless , but that it is automatic . The article originally appeared in the August 2004 issue of Diabetes Health and is reprinted with permission on my site at www.mendosa.com glucomon.htm B ook : Reviews A Most Unique Book Diabetes : An Emotional Journey The book I am reviewing this month is so beautiful 
: Advanced Number 68 March 1, 2004 Reduce , Reuse , Recycle This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have . written I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contribution : is Net Carbs Several of you have asked me about net carbs . This is the term that vendors of low-carb products use to show that what they offer has fewer carbohydrates than the FDA allows them to specify in the Nutrition Facts panel . These vendors subtract sugar alcohols , glycerin , polydextrose , and fiber from total carbohydrates . The standard terminology , available carbohydrates , excludes only fiber . While fiber certainly has no effect on blood glucose , the question is what effect if any sugar alcohols , glycerin , and polydextrose have . The answer will probably surprise you . My article is on my website at http : www.mendosa.com netcarbs.htm B ook : Review A Cookbook that is Low Carb and Low GI This is , I believe , the first low-carb cookbook that takes it one essential step
: Advanced Number 62 September 1, 2003 My First Book Written Together with Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages—and books—that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up And Down I’m listed as the third of three authors . But , hey , you’ve got to start somewhere , and this is my first . book One of my co-authors , Dr . Jennie Brand-Miller , professor of nutrition at the University of Sydney in Australia , previously published 16 books and 140 journal articles . The world’s leading authority on the glycemic index , she is the co-author of all books in the Glucose Revolution series , which have sold nearly two million copies worldwide . My other co-author , Kaye Foster-Powell , is a dietitian who has researched the glycemic index for the past 15 years . She co-authored the books in the Glucose Revolution series . My two co-authors live and work in New South
: Advanced Number 76 November 1, 2004 It’s Fall This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contribution : is Sleep Apnea I like to look on the bright side of things , so I don’t like writing about the complications of diabetes . I really don’t like writing about complications that I have learned about the hard way through personal experience . But that is exactly what I have for you this month . I was proud that I could fall asleep so fast . Little did I know that this was one of the symptoms of sleep apnea . This term means without breath . 8221 My sleep study showed that I stopped breathing for 10 seconds or more some 82 times per hour . No wonder I needed a lot of sleep It turns out that people with diabetes have a lot more sleep apnea than other people . A device called a CPAP machine completely solved my breathing problem . You can read my article on my site at Sleep Apnea R esearch : Notes The World's Healthiest
: Advanced Number 81 April 1, 2005 Boulder and the Flatirons This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Medtronic Monitors Medtronic Diabetes is not only the leading insulin pump company . It was also the first to offer a continuous monitor . While that monitor left a lot to be desired , the company has been moving steadily ahead on both the monitor and pump fronts . There are so many monitors in development that it gets confusing . The best of these monitors doesn’t even have a name yet . The company calls it the next generation Guardian Monitor . It should hit the market in a few years , in time for the current generation of blood glucose testers . The URL is Medtronic Monitors S : cams More and more scammers write or call me so that I will tell you about the stuff they sell . I usually don’t write about them . This month , however , I have a couple of situations that I must bring to your attention .
: Advanced Number 66 January 1, 2004 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have . written I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Erectile Dysfunction Before Viagra burst on the scene eight years ago , they called it impotence . Now it is merely erectile dysfunction , since it is a function that can usually be restored . If one drug doesn’t do it , a couple of others probably will . Levitra has been available for several months . Cialis came on the market last month . All of these drugs are quite similar in the way they work . The biggest difference is when they work . Whether it is impotence or erectile dysfunction , it is one of the biggest complications of diabetes . We haven’t talked about it much until now . You can read my new article on erectile dysfunction at http : www.mendosa.com erectile_dysfunction.htm The Hunt for the Hormone Responsible for Diabetes Since 60 percent of all Americans are overweight and just 6 percent
: Advanced Number 51 December 16, 2002 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have written . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . My most recent contributions are : Diabetes Searches with Google I think that you know that I try to stay positive . But when it comes to the Google search engine , I don’t have to try . It’s so good that my review in my About the Internet” column on the Web site of the American Diabetes Association is positively unbalanced . There is so much that Google can do that I challenge the readers of my column—and you—to find ideas that are new to you in what I have written . And because of space limitations , I just scratched the surface of what this wonderful search engine can do . Other features that I could have mentioned are linked on Google’s Services Tools page . Some of the most interesting are Google Answers where researchers will answer your question for what may sometimes be a very small fee , Google Catalogs where you can now search more than 5,000
: Advanced Number 89 December 1, 2005 A Molecule of Glucose Graphic by Permission of HemoCue My most recent articles : are Blogging I have joined the burgeoning ranks of bloggers . A company called Choice Media which owns Health Central , DrKoop.com , HealthScout , and hundreds of other health websites asked me to write its type 2 diabetes blog . All I have to do is send them two articles a week and they code it much easier than having to both write and code this Diabetes Update newsletter . My new blog will affect this newsletter . Much of what I previously included in my newsletter will be in my blog . But the newsletter will have links to my blog entries . The newsletter will continue to function as a way for you to learn about new and updated articles that I have written for my website and other websites and magazines that I write for as well as my blog . But I plan for the newsletter to become shorter in the future . I think that it has been too long anyway for most people to readÊanyway . The blog focuses more on news for people with type 2 diabetes and less on serving as an introduction to my website . All this is to encourage you to read my blog as well . The blog doesn’t
: Advanced Number 84 July 1, 2005 My British Book This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about diabetes . I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y Recent : Contributions Perhaps of special interest to my readers in the U.K is that the new British edition of my first book will be in bookstores there on July 7. It will retail for 8.99. The book is What Makes My Blood Gluose Levels Go Up and Down I wrote it with Dr . Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell . The British publisher is Vermillion , an imprint of Ebury Publishing of the Random House Group . They changed the title a bit by adding the word Levels . 8221 The book came out first in the U.S . in 2003, published by Marlowe Company , an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group . Then , last year Hodder Headline Group published the Australian edition . I reviewed the first edition as objectively as I could in the September 2003 issue of Diabetes Update So far , I have only noticed one big change in this edition . It lists David
: Advanced Number 71 June 1, 2004 Yosemite Falls This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about diabetes . I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are Cholesterol , Diabetes , and the Statins Most people with diabetes also have high cholesterol and high blood pressure . These are three of the components of the so-called Syndrome X or metabolic syndrome . Each condition individually is a risk factor for heart disease , and together they are particularly dangerous . That’s probably why earlier this year the American Diabetes Association set an even harder goal for LDL cholesterol . The organization says that our goal should be less than 100 mg dl . It had been 130 mg dl and remains at that level for people who don’t have heart disease or diabetes . The medical establishment’s drug family of choice to treat high cholesterol are the statins . This includes six drugs currently on the market with a generic name ending with statin :
: Advanced Number 64 November 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have . written I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Home A1C Testing When I think about how much time , effort , and blood when into writing my major article this month , I sometimes wish that I could have been paid for it . It was more than six months ago that I started to review meters and test kits that will check your A1c levels at home . In that time I accumulated several computer files and a stack of paper several inches think . The blood came from the 19 A1c tests that I have had so far this year . Honestly , however , few magazines and Web sites are interested in articles this long and this complex . Most editors nowadays would gag at a 2,300 word article like this one . The more I got into the subject the less clear the answers became . I have been an editor myself and could have chopped it down to a standard 600 words . Perhaps that would get
: Advanced Number 79 February 1, 2005 Learning to Jump This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , Web pages , and books that I have written about . diabetes I list and link most of these on my at Diabetes Directory and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y recent contributions : are The Noninvasive Dream This article originally appeared in the January 2005 issue of Diabetes Health and is now also online at The Noninvasive Dream It has long been our dream to have some sort of beam that would test blood glucose without breaking the skin to take a drop of blood . It’s coming . Among the hundreds if not thousands of inventors who think they can crack the noninvasive meter conundrum , at least 30 think they are far enough advanced to publicize at least their existence on the Web , as linked in my Blood Glucose Meters page . At least 28 of these sites explicitly use the term noninvasive , and this is implied in a couple of other cases . Of the 30 companies listed , I am confident on the basis of what I know that at least 14 of these companies don’t appear to be currently in the race to
: Advanced Number 59 June 1, 2003 This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles , columns , and Web pages that I have . written Enough Cats I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com diabetes.htm and in the site’s menu . From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest . M y most recent contributions : are Accurate Meters Why do you think that the major meter manufacturers boast of the fast speed and small sample size of their blood glucose meters Do you suppose that it is because they don’t have much to brag about the accuracy of their meters The fact is that home blood glucose meters are not extremely accurate . But wait—here comes the HemoCue The what You can read what a Swedish company has in mind for people with diabetes in the U.S . in the newest article on my Web site . The Diabetic Retinopathy : Part 16 of On-line Diabetes Resources This month I added the first new part to my On-line Diabetes Resources in several years . The On-line Diabetes Resources is the Web’s most comprehensive directory of annotated links to resources for people with diabetes . Two or three years ago I added