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“Two new pieces of research have shown that three different kinds of omega-3 fatty acidscould help prevent type 2 diabetes, in addition to its reported health benefits in combating a range of conditions including heart attacks,stoke and dementia .” http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2011/May/new-studies-link-omega-3-oils-with-diabetes-prevention-91862832.html

Omega-3 was revealed to lower the risk of diabetes. It is a type of polyunsaturated fat present in fish and seafood such as salmon, sardines, trout, mackerel and anchovies, as well as plant-based foods like flax oil, soybeans walnuts and canola oil.

The two studies that was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals a surprising conclusion. The first one involve monitoring over 3,000 people ages 65 and shows a high level of omega 3 fatty acids in the blood and was able to reduce the risk for diabetes. The second study assessed the intake of omega 3 fats in about 43,000 Chinese adults’ ages between 45 and 47. Researchers found out that by taking omega 3 that is also known as alpha linolenic acid (ALA) was very protective from diabetes.

The diverse types of omega-3 fatty acids were as well seen to metabolise differently in the body, meaning they can have dissimilar special effects in cells. ALA is supposed to be the best at recovering the body’s use of insulin, which helps eliminate sugar from the bloodstream

Subsequent to following about 5,000 people and more for the span of five years, researchers found out that the vitamin D with lower average level had 57 percent increase risk in developing the type 2 diabetes as compared to those who are in the level of recommended range.

According to Dr. Claudia Gagnon, a fellow at the Western Hospital at the University of Melbourne in Australia when the study was done, the studies like on what they did stated that the blood sugar levels of the Vitamin D higher that what it is recommended for a healthy bone may be important in order to decrease the risk of developing the type 2 diabetes.

Vitamin D is produced by the body in response to the sunlight as well as it happens naturally in some foods such as eggs, cod and salmon. Vitamin D is best known for its role in working together with the calcium to the bones.

Institute of Medicine advocates that adults obtain about 600 IU of vitamin D a day to preserve circulating levels in the enviable range. Precedent studies have revealed that vitamin D may also help keep blood sugar levels under.

“To see whether circulating D levels and calcium consumption influenced insulin sensitivity and diabetes risk, Gagnon’s team measured the vitamin D blood levels of 5,200 people without diabetes. After 5 years, about 200 of them had developed diabetes, and the researchers measured everyone’s vitamin D levels again. The researchers found that twice as many people (6 in 100) with low blood levels of vitamin D later developed diabetes, compared to those with blood levels in the normal range (3 in 100).” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/27/us-vitamind-diabetes-idUSTRE73Q6VH20110427

Those who have low blood levels of vitamin D may later develop diabetes compared with the blood levels in the normal range. Dr. Ian de Boer, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, told Reuters Health that it is hard to know the exact association between the vitamin D and diabetes. Further studies are still needed for the treatment of the said disease.

“Parenthood is linked to unhealthy eating habits, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota. Researchers from the university analyzed data from over 830 women and more than 680 men. Their findings show that mothers had a higher body mass index, ate more calories and exercised less per week, as compared to non-mothers. Fathers also exercised less than non-fathers, but their body mass index was not higher than that of non-fathers.” http://www.thirdage.com/news/parenthood-linked-unhealthy-diet-new-study_4-11-2011

According to Jerica Berge, the lead researcher and an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and community Health University of Minnesota, all the parents out there will surely relate on the idea of demand and trade-offs. Parents would want to cook healthy meal but they have to get out in order making that appointment. Parents relate to the feeling that they were not able to pay attention to the health because of the parenting demands.

In the study that was published in the journal Pediatrics, they have found out that though the mothers and the non mothers ate similar amount of healthy foods, like fruits, vegetables and whole grains, mothers ate higher amount of unhealthy foods.

Berge said that they think that moms, though are trying to model by eating fruits and vegetables, there is still a conflict on the demand on the time so instead of cooking of healthy meal, it will result into cooking chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese. The parents would probably eating with their kids also that’s why they are consuming high fat foods, at the same time they are eating healthy foods and it undoes the healthy food.

Also a mother, Berg admits that the time plays a big component for the lack of exercise and unhealthy habits. Berg suggest to involve the kids into healthy eating habits and adding exercise into their daily activities that parents do with the kids such as walking to school rather than driving, or running around the park rather than sitting on the bench.

“Caffeine can disrupt glucose metabolism and contribute to the development and poor ability to control type-2 diabetes, say US researchers from the Duke University. Caffeine has a potential for raising insulin resistance or impaired glucose tolerance in adults without diabetes which pre-disposes them for developing diabetes.” http://www.medindia.net/news/Coffee-Increases-Risk-of-Diabetes-83379-1.htm

Recent study shows that caffeine might foster in the development of diabetes. Diabetes is a major health problem of the country that affects millions of people as well as the government. Previous studies have been suggesting about the protective effect of caffeine but the recent study contradicts the findings.

According to James Lane, PhD in Duke University said about the several studies that show that caffeine’s potential for increasing the insulin resistance among people who were suffering from diabetes. He added that there are also different studies involving the increase in blood glucose after consuming the beverage like the coffee with can further blocks the effectiveness of the treatment that aims to control the blood glucose level.

The study is very useful for people who are diagnosed with diabetes worldwide. The connection have been made known between the diabetes and use of caffeine beverages especially with coffee are immense value when it is known that about 80 percent of the world’s population drinks coffee daily.

“Many commonly prescribed medications for patients with diabetes type 2 may be much less effective at preventing cardiovascular disease and death than oral metformin, Danish researchers revealed in the European Heart Journalthis week. Diabetes drugs, such as glimepiride, glibenclamide (USA, Canada:glyburide), known as ISs (insulin secretagogues) have been commonly prescribed for many decades.” http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/221873.php

The authors said that the long term risk to ISs have not been studied clearly and neither the metformin been compared to the ISs for the long term risk and for its comparative efficiency. Metformin is known to be the drug choice for type 2 diabetes.

The team of Dr. Tina Schramm, Heart Centre at the Righospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital tracked at large the unselected group of 107,806 people who are living in Denmark with the age of 20 years and above and received either IS or just the metformin between 1997 and 2006.

Researchers found out that the ISs monotherapy was connected in developing an increase risk of stroke, heart attack, and death from cardiovascular diseases as compared to metformin monotherapy. Example of ISs includes glimepiride, glibenclamide, glipizide and tolbutamide.

Monotherapy is done in treating of an illness or disorder with just one drug. Individuals who have heart attack as well as those who hadn’t will most likely have a greater risk for those on ISs. Researchers added that ISs showed a significant difference to the metformin in the effectiveness in patients with or without heart attack history.

Dr. Schramm said that the preceding studies appear that ISs, sulphonylureas in particular, are associated with the decrease in the long term risk. Hence, the increase risk from ISs shown in their study most probably has got to do with the beneficial effects of metformine, gliclazide and repaglinide, that the detrimental effect of the other ISs. The study was the first to compare metfromin to ISs despite of the vast debate about the cardiovascular risk associated with ISs for about many years. Their study is to give emphasis on the importance to conduct a long term follow up studies among the glucose lowering medications.