Posts Tagged ‘Women’

www.saturdaymorningdiet.com Joan Loganeski gives a tutorial on the many benefits the spice Cinnamon offers you on your weight loss journey. In medicine it acts like other volatile oils and once had a reputation as a cure for colds. It has also been used to treat diarrhea and other problems of the digestive system. Cinnamon is high in antioxidant activity. The essential oil of cinnamon also has antimicrobial properties, which can aid in the preservation of certain foods Cinnamon has been reported to have remarkable pharmacological effects in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance. The plant material used in the study was mostly from Chinese cinnamon Recent advancement in phytochemistry has shown that it is a cinnamtannin B1 isolated from C. verum which is of therapeutic effect on Type 2 diabetes, with the exception of the postmenopausal patients studied on C. Cassia. Cinnamon has traditionally been used to treat toothache and fight bad breath and its regular use is believed to stave off common cold and aid digestion. Pharmacological experiments suggest that the cinnamon-derived dietary factor cinnamic aldehyde (cinnamaldehyde) activates the Nrf2-dependent antioxidant response in human epithelial colon cells and may therefore represent an experimental chemopreventive dietary factor targeting colorectal carcinogenesis. Recent research documents anti-melanoma activity of cinnamic aldehyde observed in cell culture and a mouse model of human melanoma …

I have PCOS and I was just prescribed Metformin, which seems to be primarily for people with Type 2 diabetes. This freaks me out!!!! Am I at high risk for type 2 diabetes as well?

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Women With Type 1 Diabetes Receive No Heart Benefit From Omega-3
Consuming higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids does not appear to lower heart disease risk for women with type 1 diabetes, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study presented at the 70th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association. The study, abstract number 1757-P, included 601 men and women enrolled in the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes …

Older women with diabetes face higher risk for colon cancer
Physician researchers have found that older women with diabetes face a more than doubled risk for some types of colorectal cancer.

Women of all ages can benefit from health fair March 20
MATTOON — Women of all ages can learn more about their health and locally available programs through Generations, a health and wellness fair for women.