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Stone Age Diet Good For People With Diabetes Type II
If you suffer from Diabetes Type II you might consider following the diet of Stone Age humans, according to scientists from Lund University, Sweden. In a human trial, researchers found the people with type II diabetes who followed an Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) diet for three months managed their carbohydrate consumption much better. Source

• Diane from “the Diabetes Blog” posts about this report here.

Use Web to Track Sugar Trends
SugarStats.com goes public June 21st – Volcano, Hawaii -Tracking blood glucose levels, making sense of the numbers and sharing the all-important data with doctors could all get easier for the millions of people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with the launch this month of a new website created by a 24-year-old computer engineer who knows the challenges of the disease firsthand.  Source

• Jo’s Note:  Being a geek and loving everything “internet” I can see where this would benefit many people.  You can graph out your trends etc, and for those of us that don’t keep a log of our testing, it replaces it.  I can get to the site with my Blackberry with ease, so those on the go with handhelds might like this.  My biggest problem would be remembering to post the readings. 

Home Blood Sugar Monitoring Questioned
Home monitoring of blood sugar levels may not be as essential to the effective care of type 2 diabetes as previously thought, a new British study suggests.

The researchers found that having patients monitor their own glucose levels at home had no effect on their overall blood sugar levels. The findings do not apply to type 2 diabetics who must take insulin. Source

• Jo’s Note: Further down in the article is this “Moreover, half of the people who had been given glucose monitors stopped using them before the end of the study, Farmer said.” I understand completely. I was told by my doctor initially to test twice a day. I found that when I got home from work and tested, and my readings were elevated – I went into a fit of depression and started either a) starving myself or b) overeating. After I went on inslun, I stopped checking when I got home from work. The psychological effects were amazing. So I only test once a day regularly, unless there is an issue.

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