Summer Heat and Diabetes Wrecked My Game

By Sean Kelley

I was having a glorious round of golf on a recent Saturday. All I had to do was par the 18th hole to shoot 85 on a PGA Tour course—quite an accomplishment for a duffer like me. I looked forward to the glory after a hot, sunny round. I completely forgot about my diabetes.

I sliced my tee shot in the water, something I hadn’t done all day. I drowned the next shot as well. By the time I found another ball in my bag, I was seeing spots and feeling weak. Hypoglycemia was creeping in. Read More

All This Talk of Diabetes Mortality Is a Downer

By Sean Kelley

Last week I went to San Francisco for the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions, a huge annual gathering of endocrinologists, scientists, nurse educators, and pharmaceutical companies. The latest research on type 1 and type 2 diabetes was delivered, theories discussed, and news announced.

There was much discussion of uncomfortable subjects: neuropathy, nephropathy ,cardivascular disease, hypoglycemia , death. While not fatal itself, diabetes has lots of excellent ways to kill you through related conditions: stroke, heart disease, and kidney failure spring immediately to mind. Read More

Fructose: The Stealth Sugar

I've warned you about curbing your consumption of sugary fruit drinks, sports drinks and carbonated soft drinks for good reason: Sweet drinks represent the leading source of calories in America, and the engine that fuels the obesity epidemic.

New research from the University of Florida has determined why fructose -- the key sweetener contained in sugary drinks and other processed foods that comes from corn syrup, honey and fruit -- can be so health-harming. Fructose fools your body by making you perceive you're hungrier than you really are...

In studies on rats, scientists found fructose contributed to a rise in uric acid levels in the blood which blocks how insulin works in your body to regulate sugar. After 10 weeks on a high-fructose diet, every rat in the study had increased levels of uric acid and eventually developed a resistance to insulin. Lowering uric acid levels, however, reversed that damage.

One of the best and easiest way to turn your health around is to stop drinking liquid candy in all forms and switch to pure water.

One thing to keep in mind: The starch-derived (corn) fructose used to sweeten soft drinks and all kinds of processed foods is refined, man-made and metabolically different than the natural kind already in fruit. That's why your body converts the starch-derived fructose in processed foods to brown adipose tissue and trigylcerides that contribute to diabetes, hypoglycemia, obesity and cardiovascular disease.

On the other hand, fruit fructose, along with all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, water, other mono-, di- and olgio-saccharides and fiber found in fruit, are converted to blood glucose.
Yahoo News December 15, 2005
American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology October 18, 2005

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