Diabetes

Evidence-graded topics and articles tagged Diabetes.

Topics

• Alpha-Lipoic Acid — Alpha-lipoic acid may ease burning and tingling in diabetic nerve pain, and several meta-analyses show a small weight loss, but the strongest recent review fou…
• Anthocyanins — Anthocyanins are plant pigments found mainly in berries.
• Berberine — Berberine meaningfully lowers fasting blood sugar and HbA1c in type 2 diabetes, with modest reductions in body weight.
• Cinnamon — Several meta-analyses report lower fasting blood sugar with cinnamon, mainly in type 2 diabetes.
• Poultry — Poultry is the mildest of the meats in large studies: higher intake is linked to slightly lower all-cause mortality, and swapping red meat for poultry is linke…
• Red Meat — Lean, unprocessed red meat can fit inside a Mediterranean-style eating pattern: in a feeding trial, more lean beef or pork did not worsen most cardiometabolic…
• Selenium — In trials, selenium improved eye signs and quality of life in people with mild Graves' eye disease, and in selenium-poor parts of China supplements cut the rat…
• Ultra-processed food — Controlled feeding trials find people eat several hundred extra calories a day on ultra-processed diets and lose less weight than on minimally processed ones.
• Walking — Walking after a meal lowers the post-meal blood sugar rise: pooled crossover trials found walking soon after eating cut glucose more than sitting or walking be…
• Whisky and Spirits — Whisky and other spirits are drinks of almost pure alcohol, and the honest benefits are modest: small trials found whisky, gin and vodka raised 'good' choleste…