Readers:

The holiday season is coming up soon and we all know what
that means, Food-Food-Food.

Gatherings, traveling and busy schedules shouldn’t keep
you from taking care of yourself. The holiday season is
one of the hardest to eat right and exercise. I know it’s
tough, but I’m going to keep to my diet and exercise
routine and you should too. I’m not saying that you
shouldn’t enjoy the food. I’m just saying that you should
remember what you should eat and what you shouldn’t.

You’ll thank me for it later.

Regards,
Steve

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New US Diabetes Rate Up 90 Percent in Past Decade

WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) – The rate of new cases of
diabetes soared by about 90 percent in the United States
in the past decade, fueled by growing obesity and sedentary
lifestyles, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.

Diabetes experts said the findings show there is no end
in sight to the diabetes epidemic.

Newly diagnosed cases of diabetes rose to 9.1 per
1,000 people annually between 2005 to 2007, up from 4.8
per 1,000 from 1995 to 1997, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said.

The most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes, is
closely linked to obesity and has become increasingly
common in recent decades as more people become obese.
An estimated 90 percent to 95 percent of the new cases
are type 2 diabetes as opposed to type 1 diabetes, also
called juvenile diabetes.

The report, based on data from 33 states, also detailed
regional variations, showing — as other studies also
have — that the problem is most acute in the southern
United States.

Experts say that losing even modest amounts of weight
and getting more physical exercise can help prevent
diabetes but many people are not taking these steps.

“The hope and the message is that if people are kind of
changing their lifestyles, doing the things that are
good for them, then hopefully we can reverse the trend,”
the CDC’s Karen Kirtland, who led the study, said in a
telephone interview.

American Diabetes Association spokesman Matt Petersen said:
“Some day we’ll see a leveling off of diabetes incidence
if the obesity rate levels out. But clearly it hasn’t
started yet. We won’t see the plateau in type 2 diabetes
for quite a while.”

Nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of new cases
were in the South: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West
Virginia, which had highest rate among states at 12.7 per
1,000 people. Arizona was the only state in the highest
10 not in the South.

Minnesota had the lowest rate, at five per 1,000 people.
The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico exceeded even West
Virginia, with an annual new case rate of 12.8 per 1,000,
the CDC said.

“I think what’s important about seeing where the incidence
is high is it should be a guidepost about where we have to
focus prevention efforts,” Petersen said.

The report was released three days after U.S. researchers
found that while doctors are using a wider array of newer,
more costly drugs to treat diabetes, there is little long-
term proof they work better than older, cheaper medications.

Some common medications include metformin, which is
available generically and also known by the Bristol-Myers
Squibb brand name Glucophage.

There are newer diabetes drugs in a class called
glitazones, which include Takeda’s Actos or pioglitazone,
and GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Avandia, or rosiglitazone.

Avandia has been under fire over safety concerns, and
the U.S. advocacy group Public Citizen on Thursday
called for it to be banned. GlaxoSmithKline defended
its safety.

The American Diabetes Association said 23.6 million U.S.
children and adults — about 8 percent of the population
– have diabetes.

Diabetics, whose blood sugar levels are too high, are at
higher risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney damage and
blindness.

Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.

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Diabetes Not a Risk Factor for Parkinson’s Disease

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although the likelihood of
having diabetes diagnosed is increased around the time
Parkinson’s disease is identified, diabetes does not
appear to increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease,
according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Some studies have found a positive association between
diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, Dr. Jane A. Driver of
Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues point out.
It has been suggested that diabetes might promote
Parkinson’s disease through various pathways, including
suppressing neurotransmitter levels, inflammation,
oxidative stress, and cerebrovascular disease.

To investigate further, the researchers examined data from
the Physicians’ Health Study involving 21,841 U.S. male
physicians, who were followed for an average of 23.1 years.

The team reports that 423 subjects had the adult-onset
type 2 diabetes at the beginning of the study and 1987
men reported developing diabetes during the study. A total
of 556 participants reported having Parkinson’s disease
during follow-up. The average age at diagnosis was 73.1
years.

Compared with non-diabetic men, those with diabetes had a
34-percent increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. Excluding
subjects who developed vascular disease did not alter this
association.

“The highest Parkinson’s disease risk was seen in
individuals with short-duration, older-onset diabetes
without complications,” Driver’s team reports.

The difference in diabetes incidence between Parkinson’s
disease patients and matched control subjects was greatest
during the year Parkinson’s disease was diagnosed and a
few years before.

The findings “do not suggest that diabetes is a preceding
risk factor for Parkinson’s disease,” the researchers
conclude.

The clustering of diabetes diagnoses around the time of
Parkinson’s disease identification could be a result of
increased medical surveillance, a common underlying
biological mechanism, or possibly some influence of
Parkinson’s disease on diabetes risk.

SOURCE: Diabetes Care, October 2008.

Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.

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Diabetic Recipe

Hot Orange Spice Cider

(makes 12 servings)

1 cup (240 ml) fresh orange juice
5 whole cloves
6 cups (1.4 l) apple cider
6 apple cinnamon spice tea bags

1. In a large saucepan, combine all ingredients. Simmer
for 10 minutes. Strain out whole cloves and tea bags.

2. Transfer hot cider to pre-heated thermos containers.
Serve hot.

Per serving: 68 calories (less than 1% calories from fat),
0 protein, trace fat (0 saturated fat),
17 g carbohydrate, 0 dietary fiber,
0 cholesterol, 4 mg sodium

Diabetic exchanges: 1 carbohydrate (fruit)