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Everyone knows that vitamin D is necessary for calcium to be affective against bone loss. Recent news alerts us to vitamin D’s vital role in activating our immune system.

Read any internet forum on health and invariably some participant will ask the group to explain the difference between a sugar, a starch and an carbohydrate. Often as not the information provided by the person answering will be inaccurate, even misleading. Not that this is critical in any way, but since it is part of the common lexicon of most chronic diseases, and since separating them is easy, the information needs to be more easily attainable. Pre-diabetics need to know about this. Especially when the terms polysaccharide, glucose, etc are interchanged as is often found.

Roughly 3 percent of the US population are undiagnosed diabetics, that’s about ten million people. Life expectancy for a poorly controlled diabetic is estimated to be 15 years less than normal life expectancy.

Nuts can be an excellent way of avoiding diabetes. A long lived study at Harvard School Of Public Health looked at nuts as well as other foods for their likelihood of retarding diabetes and other diseases.

They should mark packages, prediabeics beware. I was down at the local market the other day wondering if they had anything new to brighten my day. Sure enough there it was in a see-through package, a knock your eye out pastry with a great come heither look in its eye

The unhealthy bonding of a sugar to a protein or a fat is called glycation. Another name is used when a protein actively seeks a sugar molecule and enzymatically assimilates it.

Generic drugs for early diabetics, or for any disease for that matter, cost less than brand drugs, everyone knows that. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a single brand drug. The drug company must include its research costs in it’s pricing.

Did you read about it? Apparently there is a relationship between dolphins and diabetes. It turns out dolphins utilize the diabetic state to survive famine. Not famine literally, but long periods without food. It’s all new so there are no answers yet.

Pre-diabetics are walking around with too much sugar in their blood. Normal amounts of sugar allows constant removal and use. Excess sugar hangs around like a kid with too much time on his hands.

Suppose this, your doctor tells you you are a borderline diabetic. But, don’t worry, he or she says, because many people who have this problem never go on to become a diabetic.