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Mediterranean-Style Diet For Diabetics

By Chrissie Cole

pimg height="186" width="250" alt="" src="http://www.injuryboard.com/uploadedImages/InjuryBoardcom_Content/Blogs/News_Blog/News/Almonds%20500.jpg" //p p /p p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" /p table width="200" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right" class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 150pt;" tbody tr style="" td style="padding: 0.75pt;" p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"buLEARN MORE/u/b/p ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;" li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); margin-top: 2.25pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 150%;"Journal of American Medical Association a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/23/2742"Abstract/a/li li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); margin-top: 2.25pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 150%;"American Heart Association on a href="http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4644"Mediterranean Diet/a/li li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); margin-top: 2.25pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 150%;"InjuryBoard on a href="../../topic/Diabetes-Drugs.aspx"Type 2 Diabetes/a/li li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); margin-top: 2.25pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 150%;"CDC: a href="../../national-news/cdc-8-percent-of-us-population-has-diabetes.aspx?googleid=242576"8 Percent of U.S. Population has Diabetes/a/li li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); margin-top: 2.25pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 150%;"a href="../../national-news/dieters----eat-more-not-less-of-right-fats.aspx?googleid=252944"Dieters - Eat More Not Less Of Right Fats/a/li /ul p style="line-height: 150%;" /p p style="line-height: 150%;"IMAGE SOURCE:b style=""copy;/b Wikimedia Commons/ almonds in and out of shell/ author: a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Almonds.jpg"Koyaanis Qatsi/a/p /td /tr /tbody /table p style="line-height: 150%;"Lentil soup and pasta may be the way to go if you have a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121602093.html"type 2 diabetes/a./p p style="line-height: 150%;"A new study finds a low-glycemic index diet is superior to a high-fiber diet at keeping blood sugar levels down./p p style="line-height: 150%;"a href="http://www.glycemicindex.com/"Glycemic index/a, or GI, ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on our blood glucose levels. High-GI foods, such as potatoes and white bread, tend to cause blood sugar to surge, while low-GI foods, such as beans, lentils, nuts, pasta produce a steady increase in blood sugar./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"The study involved 210 people with type 2 diabetes treated with anti-diabetes drugs who were randomly assigned to a low-GI diet or high-fiber diet for 6 months. The main outcome measured was the change in HbA1c in the blood, which reflects long-term glucose levels./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"HbA1c levels fell 0.50 percent on the low-GI diet compared with only 0.18 percent on the high-fiber diet, a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/nutrisci/faculty/Jenkins/"Dr. David J.A. Jenkins/a, from the University of Toronto, and co-researchers report./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"Also, levels of HDL (ldquo;goodrdquo;) cholesterol levels increased with the low-GI diet but they lowered with the high-fiber diet./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"ldquo;Low-glycemic index diets may be beneficial as part of the strategy to improve glycemic control in diabetic patients taking glucose-lowering drugs,rdquo; researchers concluded./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"ldquo;The findings reemphasize what we already know ndash; a Mediterranean-type diet: nuts, lentils, fruits, beans and vegetables, is the best choice,rdquo; said a href="http://lenoxhillheartvascular.com/handler.cfm?event=practice,templateamp;cpid=14719"Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum/a, director of Women and Heart Disease at a href="http://lenoxhillheartvascular.com/"Lenox Hill Hospital/a in New York City, and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. quot;The study did not refer to the Mediterranean diet specifically, but, components of it were Mediterranean.quot;/p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"An estimated 8 percent of people in the U.S. have a href="../../national-news/cdc-8-percent-of-us-population-has-diabetes.aspx?googleid=242576"type-2 diabetes/a which can be associated with poor diet, obesity, and lack of exercise./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"Diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States./p p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"While many drugs are available to help stabilize blood sugar levels, evidence on how well they reduce the risk of a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/topic/heart-failure-overview.aspx"cardiovascular problems/a is unclear, making a proper diet crucial to help control the disease./p p style="line-height: 150%;"The study, a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/23/2742"Effect of a Lowndash;Glycemic Index or a Highndash;Cereal Fiber Diet on Type 2 Diabetes/a, is published online in the December 17 issue of the ia href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/23/2742"Journal of the American Medical Association/a/i. #/p p /pa href="http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/mediterraneanstyle-diet-for-diabetics.aspx?googleid=253478"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Chrissie-Cole"Chrissie Cole/adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?a=vpzAO"img src="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?i=vpzAO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?a=McSCO"img src="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?i=McSCO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?a=7yMWO"img src="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~f/IBnationalnews?i=7yMWO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~r/IBnationalnews/~4/487817443" height="1" width="1"/

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