Glycemic index foods at breakfast can control blood sugar throughout the day

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2012) — Eating foods at breakfast that have a low glycemic index may help prevent a spike in blood sugar throughout the morning and after the next meal of the day, researchers said at the Institute of Food Technologists' Wellness 12 meeting.

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These breakfast foods also can increase feelings of satiety and fullness and may make people less likely to overeat throughout the day, according to recent presentations by Kantha Shelke, Ph.D., principal, Corvus Blue LLC, and Richard Mattes, M.P.H., R.D., distinguished professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University.

The glycemic index ranks foods on the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after eating. Foods with a high index are rapidly digested and result in high fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Foods with a low glycemic index produce gradual rises in blood sugar and insulin levels and are considered healthier, especially for people with diabetes.

Mattes' research specifically focused on the advantages of having almonds, a low glycemic index food, with the morning meal. In his study, published last year in the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, participants who ate a breakfast containing whole almonds experienced longer feelings of fullness and had lower blood glucose concentrations after breakfast and lunch, compared to those who did not have a low-glycemic breakfast.

When a low glycemic food is added to the diet, people spontaneously choose to eat less at other times throughout the day. Mattes added that while the calories need to be taken into consideration as part of a person's overall diet, almonds can be incorporated in moderate amounts without an effect on body weight.

Both Mattes and Shelke stressed the importance of eating a healthy, low-glycemic breakfast in maintaining a healthy weight and blood sugar levels. A 2009 study found that about 30 percent of people skip breakfast one to three times per week. Among those who eat breakfast, cold cereal is the most popular (83 percent), followed by eggs (71 percent). In addition to low glycemic index, Dr. Shelke said the ideal breakfast for consumers has these attributes:

• Savory

• Portable

• Pleasing texture •

Fills you up for extended periods of time

• Satiates quickly so less is consumed

• Affordable for the whole family to eat every day

• Non-fried

• Delicious without making you feeling guilty

"This is a very tall order for food product manufacturers," Shelke said. "It takes a lot of skill and understanding."

While it may present challenges for food manufacturers, it is well worth it to develop these products because of the prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in the United States and beyond. It is estimated that by 2030, more than 16 percent of the global population will have a blood sugar problem.

"Most of the risk factors are things that can be managed and modified," Shelke said. "We can reverse pre-diabetes and prevent it from becoming diabetes. Food has become the reason for what's ailing us, but it can actually be a solution in a number of different ways."

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Diabetes Drug Metformin Might Also Help Fight Cancer

HealthDay – 2 hrs 6 mins ago SATURDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- A diabetes medication used by millions is now showing promise against a variety of different cancers.

Two new clinical studies to be presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, in Chicago, found that metformin (also known by the brand name Glucophage, among others), appeared linked to a slowing in the rate of prostate cancer growth in certain patients, and in prolonging life for early-stage pancreatic cancer patients.

Other studies, done either in the lab or in animals, also hint that the drug might have an effect against liver or oral tumors, as well as certain forms of melanoma.

The findings have sparked interest in the cancer field and do seem promising, but much more research needs to be done before the drug can be recommended as a cancer treatment, experts said.

"There are very exciting clues from laboratory studies and population studies that metformin . . . may improve cancer outcomes or lower cancer risk," said Dr. Michael Pollak, professor of oncology and of medicine at McGill University in Montreal. "However, we need more laboratory and clinical studies to find the best dose to use, to understand in what disease situations it may help most, and also to determine if metformin itself or a metformin derivative would be most suitable for trials."

Metformin has also shown promise against colon and breast cancer, noted Pollak, who is a co-author on the prostate cancer trial.

For that trial, 22 men with prostate cancer received 500 milligrams of metformin three times a day after their diagnosis but before they were scheduled to undergo removal of the prostate gland, a procedure known as prostatectomy.

After an average treatment time of 41 days, men taking metformin showed a slowing in the growth of cancer cells in the prostate after it had been removed versus in the earlier biopsy samples, said study lead author Dr. Anthony Joshua, a staff medical oncologist with Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network in Toronto.

Not surprisingly, metformin also decreased blood sugar levels, insulin growth factor and body mass index (BMI, a measure of obesity).

None of the men in the study had diabetes, said Joshua, so "it remains to be seen who would benefit the most from metformin." The most appropriate patients may be those with diabetes, those who are at risk for the disease or those whose tumors are sensitive to metformin.

It's unclear exactly how metformin exerts its effect but it may reduce the amount of circulating insulin in the blood, and insulin can fuel the growth of prostate cancer cells, explained Joshua.

The drug may also interfere with a specific pathway linked to cancer growth, he added.

The results build on prior research done in the laboratory but are the first to be seen in humans. Experts note, however, that research presented at medical meetings is typically considered preliminary until published in peer-reviewed journals.

In another study, researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, reviewed records of 302 patients who had both diabetes and pancreatic cancer, two conditions that often go hand-in-hand. A total of 117 patients were taking metformin.

About 30 percent of those who had taken the drug were alive after two years, compared with 15.4 percent of those who had not taken metformin (the "control" group).

And patients on metformin lived an average of just over 15 months versus about 11 months for the control group, translating into a 32 percent reduced risk of dying.

But the survival benefit was seen only in patients whose cancer had not yet spread. The study was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

"I think it's very hopeful," said Dr. Michael Pishvaian, assistant professor of hematology/oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C. "Metformin may help keep blood sugar levels down

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Anti-aging, natural aging anti-aging or anti-chemistry?

March 31st, 2012 How do anti aging products work?

Basically what it does is just help your body to be healthier so you can get a more productive and less concerned about his age. It works well when taken twice on the consumption of anti-aging products. The products help to make at least two main actions: slow the aging and reproduction or fixing problems in your body’s immune system.

Physically, the cream, for example, is helping the skin to reduce wrinkles on his face, and gives the best qualities of the skin. The pills you take, for example, is helping the body to produce more hormones or hormone to increase your body looks and acts his biologically, historically, no. The pills you take can give you some negative side effects, but can also take some anti-aging products based on herbs that give you less negative side effects and somehow works better for some people.

Taking vitamins can also work as semi-anti-aging products that help solve the problems occur internally in your body.

Anti-aging (AA) products work well when supported by the everyday lifestyle that is healthy and consistent in reducing the consumption of junk food, soft drinks, alcohol and other less healthy. For products of AA of the ingredients of the pills contain, or cream of nature reserves and is produced and manufactured by high quality. AA bring their products to get your life happier. For more information on AA products that you take can surf the Internet and obtain more information for detail information.

Hundreds of anti-aging products are offered online on the Internet. If you happened to have the opportunity to take some of them and the review of such anti-aging products may be helpful to read. Aging in general, against the drift of the extracts of vitamins and other substances based on natural herbs and is believed to be useful in helping people to achieve a better life. The pills are the most important products in the markets. The popularity of the products is due to its ingredients and the use of substances.

AA products are famous in the term of the preferences of customers. “Pills are digested by the body that actively works from the inside. Problems occur when the person to take more anti-aging pills that make the person’s body overreacts and considered to be toxic. The fight against aging is the most valuable work not only because of the chemical ingredients, but also the natural healing of the face outwards.

Supplements and vitamins are also very useful for making body to regulate and provide important additional content and good for the body. Some of the traditional techniques of AA products offered on the Internet greatly with a very large attack and the slogan promised. Naturally, people are going to age that is increasingly being taken, so the most important thing to do is not just worry about getting older, but enjoying life as best as possible for maximum life and we somehow long and happy life.

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Organic Natural Skin Care

March 31st, 2012

Skin care is important, not only to keep you young looking, but also to assist in warding such dangers as skin cancer. With a major abundance of skin products on the market today, it is difficult to know which are most beneficial to your skin. All of them say they are good for your skin, but naturally that is part of the marketing strategy. One way to narrow down you choices for skin products is to choose products.

The term “organic” refers to items that are not modified genetically, are not grown with the use of pesticides and involve no use of growth hormones. Many may wonder how organic can be used in terms of skin care. Simply put, the ingredients contained within the specific skin product are organic. This basically indicates that there are less chemicals and preservatives and more ingredients from nature. Something being natural refers to it as not being artificial.

Therefore, when you combine the terms organic and natural you see that they both basically entail not using anything artificial. They are basically of the same meaning when placed in the context of .

When you look at what makes a skin product organic and/or natural, you can see that often you can make your own home remedies for skin care. For example, a facial steam consisting of herbal tea such as green tea or chamomile opens pores and cleanses them of impurities. A mix of the same type of herbal tea combined with olive oil slathered on the face and body soothes and not only moisturizes, nourishes, but also cleanses and restores the skin. This is just a very small example of organic items that can be utilized to create your own skin care regime at home with .

Another organic item of nature that you can use to treat your skin is raw honey.

Raw honey has a natural antibiotic contained within that is useful for ridding the skin of some types of acne. Even if you don’t want to do a lot of research to find out how to create your own homemade skincare items, there are ways to ensure when buying products already made and marketed at stores are truly organic and truly appropriate for .

First of all an item cannot be labeled as organic unless 95% of the ingredients contained in the product are organically grown. You must be careful when reading labels; however, because there are those that state that the product is made with organic ingredients. With this only 70% of the ingredients contained within the product are organically grown.

Skin care is important, not only to keep you young looking, but consider also that your skin is the largest organ of your body. Most people do not think of their skin that manner, but considering that it helps protect, detoxify, enables entrance of important nutrients into the body to keep you healthy and protects the body from environmental changes it is a vital part of one’s body that should be well taken care of with .

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Cosmetic dentists in Sunnyvale

March 31st, 2012 One has to come across dental problem at least once, in a life time and that is sure. Whether, it is some adult or a child, oral problems are always considered to be worst, no matter, whether, it is less intensive or more intensive. When we talk about oral health, then it must be worth mentioning that the field of cosmetic dental treatment has been flourished a lot, these days. Many dental issues that were untreated in the past can now, be treated and all thanks to advancement in medical science and technology.  If you are living in Sunnyvale, then you must be aware of this, fact that how much a Cosmetic dentist Sunnyvale, is valued. The dentists of the city are very much friendly and one can easily interact with them and discuss the dental issue. They are known to be professionals, in their work because they know fully, what to do and what not to do, well.

 

The people living in San Jose are well familiar, with the dental clinics, in Sunnyvale.

Both the cities are almost, near in location and therefore, both are well familiar, with everything. The dentists of both the cities also, work in collaboration. If some patient cannot be treated in Sunnyvale then he is sent to San Jose, by the reference of the Sunnyvale dentist for getting the treating and vice versa. If we talk about the clinics in Sunnyvale, then the best one is known to be the Sunnyvale dental clinic. This clinic can provide great dental care to all the patients, by leaving them, satisfied with, every treatment.

 

Even, if you do not have any huge teeth problem, still, it is better for you to see, a dentist.

It would help you, in staying away, from oral problems, in future. The dentist will recommend you to follow a number of precautions, by giving you, so many, numerous tips. If you will follow the suggestions, given by the dentist then you will never have to come across any huge dental problem in your life. When you will visit the dentist, then you will be satisfied with, what the suggestions, he will be giving you, for getting treated.

 

The dentists in Sunnyvale are much busy, as a number of patients come and go, for getting treated, from the dentists. The dentists here treat every patient, in a dedicated way. If some patient cannot be treated in the city, then he is sent to cosmetic Dentist Mountain View city for getting treated. There will be no problem for them, in visiting the dentist to another city. Many of the patients, comes for, getting dental implants in the city.

 

Whether, it is about replacing the teeth, whitening the teeth or solving any other problem related to the teeth, everything will be treated in a professional way, in the dentists here, in the city. All the problems will be solved, in a professional way, by leaving you satisfied. Don’t worry as all dental problems of the citizens will be treated, in a great way.

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Fat Burning Foods

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