Let Them Eat Chocolate! 12 Anti-Diabetes Superfoods

Type 2 Diabetes presents one of the greatest health risks to the population today.  It is the seventh leading cause of death in the US.  Diabetes are more likely to experience glaucoma, cataracts, and neuropathy (nerve damage to the feet that impacts ability to feel pain, heat and cold), is also the leading cause of kidney failure.

Recent research confirms that diabetes increases the risk of heart attack and stroke:

• women with diabetes have an 11% greater  risk of cancer mortality
• men with diabetes have a 17% greater risk of cancer mortality.

Diabetes experience higher incidence of cancer of the colon, liver and rectum. Diabetic women have greater incidence of stomach and endometrial cancers while diabetic men have higher incidence of bladder and pancreatic cancer.

Diabetes can be prevented and controlled through diet. People who are obese (i.e. have Body Mass Index of >30) are 400% more likely to suffer from Type 2 Diabetes (aka “diabesity”), and so are more likely to receive a cancer diagnosis or die from cancer.

Superfoods for Diabetics
A great step for diabetics and pre-diabetics: integrate the following 'super foods' into your regular diet and experience a prompt impact lowering blood sugar, cholesterol and heart disease risks (click here to see the list full size) 

Additional Resources

• Take the  Diabetes Risk Test in English or Spanish.
• Attend a free online medical webcast about weight loss surgery  -  attendees receive  $250 medical credits 
• Prevent, Control and Eliminate: Diabetes and Your Weight  
• Increasingly Obese and Diabetic, More Adolescents Getting Weight Loss Surgery 
• Internet radio:Lean and Green: New Green Zone LAP-BAND Improves Results!
• Diabetes and Job Discrimination: Know Your Rights
• Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes
  
   

Resveratrol-Like Drug Eliminates Many Health Risks of Obesity

Fat Chance: 
Obese Mice Given Resveratrol-
Mimicking Drug Live 44% Longer

A designer drug for obese mice suppresses typical obesity-related co-morbidities has given new energy to the notion that the aging process of humans can be significantly slowed.

by The Health Traveler, August 19 2011



Researchers at the National Institute on Aging have discovered that a resveratrol-mimicking drug , SRT-1720, reduces liver fat and improves insulin receptivity when given to obese mice. The obese mice taking the drug added 44% to their lifespan. Clinical trials for humans are now underway.

“SRT-1720... is good evidence that this compound has a positive effect on the physiology of the obese animal, and that is definitely promising for humans”

~Jan Viig, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx

More Evidence of the Health Benefits of Calorie Restriction
SRT-1720 was designed to essentially mimic resveratrol, the ingredient in red wine (and purple grape juice) thought to activate protective proteins called sirtuins, which gives mice on low-calorie diets a longevity boost.

Since it takes very large doses of resveratrol to obtain the longevity benefits, chemically simulated resveratrol mimics such as SRT-1720 were developed to activate sirtuin at much lower doses.

Sirtuins have been in the longevity reearch spotlight for some time, but studies by Pfizer, among others, did not prove out a relationship. But the National Institute of Aging study is more robust, following large groups of mice for over three years.

Although the drug improved the lifespan of obese mice, it did not not reverse the effects of obesity altogether. In the study, the treated fat mice lived longer than the untreated ones, but had a significantly shorter lifespan than the normal weight mice. SRT-1720 enabled the obese mice to enjoy more of their available life span without actually increasing the normal lifespan, itself.

It is not yet known if SRT-1720 prolongs the lives of normal weight mice; however given SRT-1720 drug did not extend the maximum life span of the obese mice, the researchers said it would be "surprising if it did so with lean mice."

However, the scientific world is watching with interest. Brian Kennedy, president of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging says that sirtuins could turn out to be “key modulators of aging.”

Further Reading

• Resveratrol 
• What is Resveratrol?  
• Resveratrol and Cancer: What is the Relationship?  
• Is Weight Loss Surgery a Drastic Solution to the Problem of Childhood Obesity?  
• Maternal Obesity Crisis: Very Overweight Moms 3x More Likely to Die Within One Month of Birth  
•   The 13 Most Dangerous Complications of Obesity

Is Green the New Black? Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Now Even Green Zone LAP-BAND

Allergan, makers of LAP-BAND, reports that more than 350,000 people around the world have had the LAP-BAND stomach restriction procedure for weight loss. Recently, the FDAapproved relaxed requirements for LAP-BAND, with millions more meeting the qualifying requirement of BMI > 30.

• QUIZ: Not just for soccer moms! What NFL lineman - and coach- had LAP-BAND?

The FDA change is just in time for more patients to take advantage of the latest innovation in non-invasive stomach restriction procedures: the Green Zone  LAP-BAND.  This evolution of the non-invasive procedure will help patients lose post-op weight faster than before, thanks to an FDA-approved medical device by Crospon called the  Endolumenal Functional Lumen Imaging Probe- or EndoFLIP.

Recently I watched a demonstration of the EndoFLIP, which allows the gastroenterologist surgeon to take multiple (up to 16) real-time images of the bariatric patient's gastroesophogeal tract, enabling very precise placement of the LAP-BAND so the patient feels a restriction that is not too loose (not enough weight loss) and not too tight (leading to nausea or reflux, and discomfort during and after eating), but just right for optimized weight loss.

Most importantly, the EndoFLIP enables the surgeon to perform the first fill of the LAP-BAND interoperatively - so patients leave the hospital with a 'jump start' to their LAP-BAND.  Most patients won't need their next fill for 5 or more months, a significant savings on hassle and cost compared to the regular LAP-BAND, which requires the first fill to take place within 4-6 weeks of band placement, and at least another band fill in the first six months. 

 

 Medical Travel Talk radio recently hosted Health Travel Guides on its show to learn about Green Zone LAP-BAND - case manager Leslie McDeavitt has worked with thousands of LAP-BAND patients having their procedure with the top Allergan-certified  obesity surgical team at the Weight Loss Surgery Center at Hospital Angeles in Tijuana Mexico, just 20 minutes from downtown San Diego, where more than 5,000 US patients have had their LAP-BAND placed by Dr. Juan Lopez Corvala.  

Thanks to a special arrangement with Irish medical device maker Crospon, the Green Zone LAP-BAND is available exclusively at Hospital Angeles, a super state-of-the-art facility in a gated medical campus that is the shining star of Mexico's largest private hospital network.

The all-inclusive Green Zone LAP-BAND medical travel program is offered at $5,950 including 2 nights at the hospital and all associated pre-op tests, doctor, surgeon, and medical fees.  Patients are also enrolled in a one-year follow-up program and receive one year of free fills   from Hosptal Angeles.

• read about other medical device manufacturers going abroad

Thanks to Leslie for providing the following information: to find out if you’re a candidate for Green Zone LAP-BAND and learn more about the medical travel process: 

•  click here to email  Leslie 

• call toll free 866.978.2573 x 119

•  securely submit you  personal medical history online (under age 18 use this form) 

  Related Articles:

  • FDA Approves Relaxed Requirements for LAP-BAND
  • VIDEO: This US Doctor Had His LAP-BAND in Mexico

Dogs and Horses Gain Quality of Life with Stem Cell Treatments...Will People?

38-year old Yankee pitcher Bartolo Colon had it ..and pitched a shut-out, reviving his professional career. A race horse by the name of Be a Bono, had it... and went on to earn more than $1.25 million in winnings.

"It" , of course, is adult autologous stem cell transplantation - what many are calling the future of medicine, and which has been applied successfully to a number of chronic disease conditions:

• Click here to read Top 10 Stem Cell Treatments in the Next 10 Years

But are stem cells a ‘fountain of youth" (as Sports Illustrated breathlessly reported) or a dangerous patient rip-off? (as bioethicist Arthur Kaplan crankily opined on MSNBC).

• Click here to visit a Bioheart Stem Cell Center of Excellence for the treatment of Congestive Heart Failure.

• Click here to watch a video of US pharmacist Mort Farina, who received adult stem cell treatment for stroke and heart attack in a private Mexico hospital on the advice of his UCLA cardiologist.

• click here to find out who said "the potential uses for ...adult stem cells.... are nearly limitless"

This blogtalkradio interview, sponsored by Health Travel Technologies' Medical Travel Talk program, features Julia Szabo, a New Yorker who got stem cell treatment for her dogs - that's right,  two dogs. Julia hopes to have an adult stem cell treatment herself for a chronic health problem, and is writing a book about how stem cells have changed her - and her dogs' - life.

Download the interview here: Stem Cell Therapy From Fixing Fido to Firing Fastballs 08/10 by MedicalTravelTalk | Blog Talk Radio

To find out more about the ICMS-registered stem cell treatment protocols available at the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Hospital Angeles Tijuana for treatment autism, cerebal palsy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), erectile dysfunction (ED), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's, ASL, "Diabetic Foot", Type 2 Diabetes, and more, contact a Health Travel Guide Toll Free at 866.978.2573.

If you are one of the 50 million people in the US without insurance, or if you are one of the more than 25 million so under-insured you find out-of-pocket costs too high, Health Travel Guides takes the guesswork out of finding the highest quality treatments with board-certified specialists around the globe.