The “More Is Better” Protein Myth


Hope is interviewed in the article that cuts through the misinformation that people diagnosed with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes too often receive.  Read more ...

February 7, 2010

Oprah Does Diabetes, But the Diagnosis? Fair to Poor


Oprah was finally to take on America’s Silent Killer – diabetes. YES! I first heard this from a diabetes educator colleague with the inside scoop. Soon the diabetes online community was buzzing with morsels of info leaking out about how Oprah and her producers would present diabetes. It wasn’t sounding good – heavy on scare tactics about complications and bold orders for behavior changes from Oprah’s famed health gurus.

 
January 15, 2010

Make Weight Control Second Nature, Learn to Live Naturally Thin

Making Weight Control Second NatureYes, we’re once again in depths of the post holiday New Year's resolution ritural. And yes, the most common resolution is: lose those unwanted pounds – again or still. But, think - are you really ready to lose weight and do the daily work to keep off those unwanted pounds?

 
November 18, 2009

Take Action to Beat Type 2 Now - Guest blog skinnyandthecity.com

Check out my guest blog posted on skinnyandthecity.com on 11/18/09 Take Action to Beat Type 2. Please read the comments - already some heartwarming stories of people's efforts and challenges to Beat Diabetes.

 
November 14, 2009

Prevent/Delay Diabetes? With a Bit of Weight Loss, Concludes 10 Year NIH Study

The first report of the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome Study (DPPOS) came out October 29th, 2009 online in The Lancet, a well known medical journal. DPPOS is part two of the ongoing Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) conducted in the U.S. as a National Institutes of Health multi-site study. The DPP and DPPOS results are similar to findings from trials conducted internationally over the past two decades in Finland, China and elsewhere.

 

Diabetes Daily launches Newly Diagnosed Week with Interview with Warshaw

Diabetes Daily, a popular and growing online information resource and blog, launched their week of content for people newly diagnosed with diabetes with an interview with Warshaw about her latest book Real Life Guide to Diabetes.

WebMD posts expert advice from Warshaw on Type 2 Diabetes and Diets

Warshaw's Expert Q&A: A Healthy Diet for Type 2 Diabetes posted on WebMD among expert advice from Ornish, Ludwig, Hill, Diekman and others under All the Latest from the Greatest...Expert Advice on Eating to Prevent or Control Health Conditions.

June 26, 2008

Diabetes Incidence Just Keeps Rising

Revised numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were just published in the National Diabetes Fact Sheet and they are, once again, disheartening and staggering but not surprising:

 
March 31, 2008

Prevent Dementia By Trimming Belly Bulge

Plenty of research points to the health dangers of excess belly – or abdominal – fat, from preventing type 2 diabetes, to high blood pressure and more. Last week, a study published in the journal Neurology conducted by Kaiser Permanente’s research arm, linked excess belly fat to a high risk of dementia. Researchers found that the more belly fat participants were toting around, the greater their risk for dementia.

 
March 18, 2008

Face the Facts and Figures about Pre- and Type 2 Diabetes, Next Take Action

The facts and figures about the financial costs of diabetes as well as the numbers of children and adults at risk of developing type 2 diabetes due to genetics, but more so being overweight, are staggering…and “sobering” as noted by Drs Judith Fradkin and Griffin Rodgers, from the diabetes division of the National Institutes of Health, in their Diabetes Care editorial The Economic Imperative to Conquer Diabetes (extract).