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Diabetes Notes

Archive for March 2008

March 29th, 2008

Would you use Cannabis, LSD or ‘magic mushrooms’ to help with diabetic ailments?

My most trafficked post ever came just last weekend… Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms and Cannabis aids diabetics ailments. Yes, funny huh? But my question to you is this- do you agree with using ‘natural medications’ such as Pot to help treat diabetes?

Yes I would use such ‘natural remedies’

For me no, but if others choose to […]

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March 29th, 2008

My favorite 3 posts just for you

Here is a recap of some of favorite posts over the last few months. The first I just love, well… just because.
What does a 7 year old really think about diabetes… A little conversation that I thought y’all would appreciate… this was between my 7 year old daughter and myself (as she was proofreading my […]

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March 29th, 2008

Bitter melon takes a hold of diabetes

Bitter melon… have you heard of it? It is an old Chinese traditional medicine, not to mention vegetable. Researchers took about a ton of this very beautiful green veggie and extracted pulp to study on a molecular level how it aids in type 2 diabetes.
Here is how it works- it is quite fascinating.
Exercise activates AMPK […]

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March 29th, 2008

Link between low testosterone and type 1 diabetics

A new study shows that low testosterone that is common in men with type 2 diabetes is also linked to type 1 diabetics.
“As testosterone deficiency may contribute to impaired performance, mood, and libido, as well as have adverse impact on cardiovascular risk, these findings demonstrate the presence of a significant and unrecognized problem among men […]

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March 29th, 2008

Praying to heal a diabetic child… devastating results

I saw the below article this morning on Comcast online and was so upset by it. I know that everyone has their own beliefs and ways of dealing with illness, but to me this is inexcusable. I apologize in advance if I said anything that offends anyone.
Madeline Neumann, 11, died Sunday at the Weston home […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 2 comments

March 29th, 2008

Weekly journal- Fairly good 3/29/08

Bloodsugars have been so-so this week. I had a minor surgical procedure at the beginning of the week and I think just the trauma of it threw me off. I had a small tumor/cyst (we aren’t sure till pathology comes back) removed of my head, so I have about 20 stitches or so. And my […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

March 23rd, 2008

Happy, happy Easter

For all of those that celebrate Easter, have a wonderful day with your friends and family! Happy Easter.
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March 22nd, 2008

Ectasy, LSD, magic mushrooms and Cannabis aids diabetic’s ailments?

Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms and Cannabis… could they one day be legal prescriptions used to fight such diseases as diabetes? This all sounds crazy, huh? Researchers in the US and Europe are hoping that this is possible and that new types of science will prove it.
The cannabis-based medicine Sativex uses fewer psychoactive cannabinoids and […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment

March 22nd, 2008

Pre-Easter Journal this fine weekend- 3/22/08

I will make it short and sweet. I have not lost weight on the scale but my pants are bigger on me and I swear I look toner, maybe I am just imaging things but even my middle daughter said, “Mommy, your legs look like skinny legs like mine in your pants. Your butt looks […]

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March 20th, 2008

Grape skins are a diabetics best friend- Resveratrol fights the fight

Research carried out by scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has found that resveratrol, a compound present naturally in grape skin, can protect against the cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes, according to a recently published paper in the science journal “Diabetes, […]

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