Bioflavonoid prevents metabolic syndrome and obesity in mice

Reprinted with permission of Life Extension

In an article published online on July 10, 2009 in the journal Diabetes, researchers in Ontario, Canada report that naringenin, a flavonoid present in citrus fruit, prevents weight gain and components of metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes, in a rodent model.
For their study, Murray W. Huff of the Robarts [...]

Findings Support the Remarkable Effects of CoQ10 in Fighting Melanoma, Diabetes, Endothelial Dysfunction, and More!

Excerpted from the Life Extension Foundation magazine
Strengthening the Body’s Immune Response
Because CoQ10 enhances the ability of immune cells to disable invading pathogens, scientists believe it may benefit people confronted with various challenges to the immune system, ranging from allergies to HIV infection.
Some scientists describe allergies as conditions in which the body’s immune system reacts to [...]

Many Don’t Realize the Seriousness of Diabetes

Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.
02-17-09
Feb. 17–When the American Diabetes Association held a series of focus groups asking people to rank the severity of certain health problems, cancer and heart disease, predictably, ranked at the top of the list.
Diabetes fell to the middle of the pack.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly [...]

Effect of Irvingia on weight loss, blood fats and glucose

From www.lef.org
In 1990, researchers studied the effects of Irvingia on eleven human Type 2 diabetics. Compared to baseline, there were significant reductions in blood triglyceride levels (16%), total cholesterol (30%), LDL (39 %), and glucose (38%), while HDL-cholesterol levels were increased by 29% after four-week supplementation. These desirable biochemical effects were accompanied by improved clinical [...]

Metabolic Danger of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

What you need to know about high-fructose corn syrup:

Dietary intake of fructose, particularly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), has dramatically increased in the US in recent decades. Increased HFCS consumption has paralleled increasing rates of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and other conditions associated with poor lifestyle habits.
High-fructose corn syrup is found in sweetened [...]

Lower vitamin D levels predict increased blood sugar and insulin resistance

[From the Life Extension newsletter]
The October, 2008 issue of the journal Diabetes published the outcome of a study of middle-aged men and women which found that lower serum vitamin D levels were associated with an increase in the risk of developing insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar over a ten year follow up period.
Researchers at [...]

Vitamin D may lower risk of developing diabetes [from Life Extension Foundation]

A review published online on March 13, 2008 in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood concluded that vitamin D supplementation in infancy may be protective against the development of type 1 diabetes.
For the current review, C. S. Zipitis, of the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, and A. K. Akobeng, of Booth Hall Children’s [...]