Diabetes

Reversing Diabetes

June 22, 2025 by Vicki Griffin - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Jimmy was a big baby—10 pounds at birth. By age ten, he tipped the scales at 150 pounds. Just baby fat, his mother reasoned. He will grow out of it. Jimmy did grow out of it and into something worse: diabetes. By age thirteen he was twenty pounds heavier, tired all the time, and constantly […]

Intermittent Fasting to Control Diabetes and Obesity

March 30, 2025 by Satchin Panda and Pam Taub - Reading Time: 7 minutes

People with obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are often advised to eat less and move more, but our new research suggests there is now another simple tool to fight off these diseases: restricting your eating time to a daily 10-hour window. Studies done in mice and fruit flies suggest that […]

Does Diabetes Cause Depression?

March 2, 2025 by JoAnna Johnston - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Did you know that the link between diabetes and depression had been described as early as the 17th century? Back then, English doctor Thomas Willis — one of the pioneers of diabetes research — wrote that “significant life stress, sadness, or long sorrow” made people more likely to suffer from diabetes. But it wasn’t until […]

Effective Lifestyle Changes for Type II Diabetes

September 1, 2024 by Calvin Trash - Reading Time: 9 minutes

For over 25 years, my wife and l have had the fortunate experience of being associated with a small lifestyle-change center in rural Alabama. Some of our first patients were Type ll diabetics, (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus), and since we were convinced that a total vegetarian (vegan) diet was the most healthful one for most […]

Pancreas, Diabetes and Meal Frequency

May 30, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 7 minutes

There’s something else behind the stomach – and that’s the pancreas. That’s how we learned it at school. In its first role, the pancreas is a vital digestive gland. In the unborn fetus, it is already developing on the 28th day and the Langerhans islet cells can be seen in the 8th and 9th week. […]