April is the month when people from all walks of life in NSW get together for a ‘Great Australian Bite,’ helping to raise money to find a cure for the 740,000 Australians who live with diabetes.
To host a ‘bite’, all you need to do is;
New research from Japan appears to indicate that not all fats are necessarily bad for the liver.
The Japanese researchers changed the fat composition in the livers of mutant mice and proceeded to feed them the same highly fatty diet as they did a group of regular mice.
Both groups of mice became obese, with the regular mice developing resistance to insulin and becoming prone to diabetes, while the mutant mice remained free from these conditions.
A recent study has shown that a combination of resistance training and cardiovascular exercise is the most effective way of beating type 2 diabetes.
Researchers at the University of Calgary, in Canada found that the combination regime appeared to be more effective at controlling blood sugar levels than cardio or weight training exercise alone. Lead researcher and associate professor of medicine and cardiac sciences at the university, Dr Ronald Sigal, said the findings were interesting because ‘most other studies have looked at just one kind of exercise, either aerobic or resistance’.
A new US study has reported that a half-hour daily dose of moderate exercise, such as walking, may be more effective than rigorous exercise to protect against cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Lead author and exercise physiologist Cris Slentz, of Duke University Medical Centre, reported, ‘On the surface, it seems to make sense that the harder we exercise, the better off we’ll be, and by some measures that’s true. But our studies show that a modest amount of moderately intense exercise is the best way to significantly lower the level of a key blood marker linked to higher risk of heart disease and diabetes. More intense exercise doesn’t seem to do that.’
A recent research review has shown regular exercise to be an effective tool in the control of type 2 diabetes, the condition in which the body cannot properly use the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin.
The results of 103 studies, which involved a total of 10,455 type 2 diabetes sufferers, were combined, revealing that changes in lifestyle helped diabetes sufferers to gain a greater degree of control over their blood sugar levels.
