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Nutrition and health needs to be a priority in ones life. The wrong foods can be very harmful to your body; however there are many food cures that can help reverse the direction of many diseases. If you have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) or type II diabetes, then what you put into your body is even more important.

The oyster mushroom is not only delicious to eat, it has also been found to be very beneficial to diabetes patients. Studies have found that the oyster mushroom lowers blood glucose and cholesterol. The result of a recent study done by the Department of Diet and Nutrition showed that the oyster mushroom significantly reduced the patients’ systolic and diastolic blood pressure, glucose, total cholesterol, and triglycerides.

All of this was done by eating a delicious simple little mushroom. The results happened naturally and without any deleterious effect on the liver and kidneys, unlike the side effects of using medication. Eating nutritious food is important for ones health, and many foods have a curing affect on the body. Eat well and enjoy a long healthy life.

CHINESE MEDICINE NEWS

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The Chinese people have used herbal remedies for centuries. Can we learn from them and help turn around the number of cases of metabolic syndrome? Metabolic syndrome, also known as Syndrome X or Insulin Resistance is not only considered a disease in its own right, but is also a precursor to Type II diabetes. It is estimates to affect up to 25% of the USA population, most of whom are unaware that they have the condition. For more information on insulin resistance view our other articles.

So what herbs can help people that are pre-diabetic?

• Cinnamon and Fenugreek – These are both highly effective spices at lowering blood glucose levels.
• Ginger and Caper – These guys counter insulin resistance by increasing sensitivity to insulin.
• Capers, Coriander, and Garlic – mimic the effects of insulin on the cell receptors.
• Coriander – also enhances insulin secretion by the pancreas.

You can add spice to your life to help reverse metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. However the primary treatment is a change in lifestyle. We need to concentrate on our nutrition and health. Eating correctly and more exercise is the real key in reversing this deadly disease.

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We are killing our children with food and don’t know it. Many families need to have both parents working to provide for the family. We have become accustomed to convenience with our food and nutrition choices. On top of that, super sized portions make it even worse. This type of nutrition must stop for our children health.

In a study that began in 1973 researchers tested children on their levels of blood glucose, triglycerides, “good” cholesterol, body weight, blood pressure, and etc. Thirty-one of these kids had at least three abnormal factors and were classified as having metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors — such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar levels — that together increase the likelihood of developing heart problems or diabetes.

Twenty-one of the thirty-one subjects continue to have metabolic syndrome as an adult, and seventeen of the subjects have cases of cardiovascular disease.

Many moms and dads have a lot of stress in their lives and many are too busy to cook. It is clear, from this study, that we must make time and have those family dinners with quality food and conversation. Most people gain weight after childhood, rather than lose weight. That is why we need to teach our children about proper nutrition so they will have a healthy future.

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Do you have a spare tire? Not in the trunk of your car, but that abdominal fat that seems to never go away? It has long been suspected that this fat was a primary contributor to metabolic syndrome along with a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: pre-diabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes in cholesterol.

A team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Yale University School of Medicine has found that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle leads to alterations in energy storage that sets the stage for the metabolic syndrome. They found that energy from carbohydrates in meals were stored as glycogen in both the liver and in skeletal muscle. Another key observation was that skeletal muscle insulin resistance precedes the development of insulin resistance in liver cells, and that fat production in the liver is increased.

Metabolic syndrome is a very common metabolic abnormality. The syndrome afflicts more than 50 million Americans and almost half of all Americans are predisposed to metabolic syndrome. This makes metabolic syndrome one of the nation’s most serious health issues.

However there is good news. Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle can be countered through a simple intervention: exercise. So get away from your computer, or get off the couch, and take a walk with a friend or a loved one.

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Do you drink soda? I know most people have at least one a day. The main ingredient in soda is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and in a recent study participants that drank soda had an increase in triglyceride levels and your LDL (That’s the bad cholesterol).

Americans’ have made soda a regular part of their diets. HFCS has been linked to Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome. The scary part of all this is HFCS is easily metabolized in your fat more than any other sugar.

You may want to consider drinking more water at your next meal and through out the day.

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One of the biggest problems we have today is dealing with stress.  Everyone gets stressed from time to time. Stress is actually a normal function of the body. However people who are chronically stressed often develop metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrom X. This is a condition that causes a person to gain more weight than they should, based on the calories they consume. A study funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were 60 million people, in 2000, to be effected by metabolic syndrome.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have determined a neurotransmitter (NPY) and the receptor (Y2R) are activated during stress leading to obesity and metabolic syndrome. They were able to block weight gain and metabolic syndrome in mice with a Y2R blocker injected directly into the abdominal fat. The result was a decrease in fat in the abdomen and reduced fat in the liver. It also helped control insulin resistance, and blood pressure.

Researchers are hopeful that this will work the same way in humans. This would lead to better control of metabolic syndrome and reduce chances of a person developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

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There has always been a debate on what diet works best. There are so many different diets and many of them are so hard to follow that people fail. If there one diet a person should be on, according to this study, it is a low glycemic index load diet.

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) May 16, 2007, involving 73 obese adults, aged between 18 to 35 years, at the Children’s Hospital Boston, showed greater weight loss among participants who followed a low glycemic load (GL) diet over a low fat diet. The results suggest that dieters who have struggled to lose weight in the past may be able to overcome the diet challenge with a simple oral glucose tolerance blood test and a low GL diet based on low GI carbohydrate food choices.

As an additional benefit to this diet, it was reported that all participants who followed a low GL diet (regardless of insulin secretion), showed beneficial effects on HDL (good) cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, known risk factors for diseases including metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

On a side note SoLo Gi is raising the bar in the food industry. They have created an ideal snack food for the GI/GL diet. Most nutrition bars and processed snacks are high GI, because the ingredients are predigested during their processing and metabolize quickly after ingestion, causing a rapid rise in blood sugar and corresponding flood of insulin into the blood stream. The new SoLo Gi bars don’t do this, and they come in 5 different flavors.

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