Jo’s Cafe

I hope you all didn’t eat and sleep too much yesterday. The one indication of too high sugar in the body is the need to sleep. Yes we all believe that turkey knocks us out right after eating a huge meal, but I am willing to bet it is more a compination of “all” the foods consumed, down to the 4 or 5 slices of pumkin pie. Before I was diagnosed, I slept all the time after eating. After being diagnosed, I figured out it was because my sugar was too high. I slept a lot! Once I started treatment, the after meal naps ceased. Now I take naps just cause I want to

Onto the news items …

Oral Anti Diabetic Substance Discovered

Research in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Science Education of the University of Haifa has discovered a substance that may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications. The substance, which is derived from yeast, is called Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF). “The research is now at the stage where the substance has been successfully tested on diabetic rats and was found to reduce sugar and lipids in the blood of the treated animals. The next stage of the research is to evaluate GTF efficacy in humans,” said Dr. Nitsa Mirsky, who is conducting the research.

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This current research was conducted on two levels: on diabetic rats and on the molecular-cell level. The results indicate that GTF acts similarly to insulin in the rats, lowering the level of glucose, and of LDL-cholesterol, (the “bad” cholesterol), and raising the level of HDL-cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol). GTF inhibited oxidation processes that can cause atherosclerosis and result in further complications of the disease like strokes and heart attacks. Moreover, when GTF is given at early stage of the disease, it could prevent or delay renal complications.

FTC Busts Family of Health-Care Scammers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators have busted a family of con artists who toured the country selling bogus health care ventures and cure-all herbal teas.

The Federal Trade Commission said Friday Jeffrey McLain and his two sons operated a traveling road show selling health care business plans, which they claimed could generate up to $1 million per year. The McLains also pushed a line of teas, under names like Ezekiel Cleansing Tea, which they claimed could cure diseases, including AIDS, diabetes, cancer, strokes, and heart disease.

Dutch Find Self-Management Course Helps Type 2 Control

Adults with type 2 diabetes who follow individually tailored self-management programs are better able to lower their blood pressure and weight and maintain them over time than adult diabetes patients who don’t, say Dutch researchers.

Scientists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands conducted a three-month study of 196 adults between 50 and 70 years old who had been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Nine months after the three-month study had concluded, they found that patients who followed an active self-management program were enjoying a net reduction in body mass index of 0.39, compared with non-participants, whose body mass index had increased 0.38.