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Gut Microbiota: An Important Factor in the Effectiveness of Exercise to Prevent and Mitigate Diabetes

August 18, 2020 534 6
Martin Juneau, MD

Escherichia coli, part of the gut microbiota.

In this article from February 1, 2020, Dr. Martin Juneau of the Montreal Heart Institute looks at an important factor — gut microbiota — in the effectiveness of exercise to fight diabetes. OVERVIEWIn overweight, prediabetic and sedentary men, exercise-induced changes in the gut microbiota are correlated with improvements in blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity.The…

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured Articles Tagged With: Diabetes, diet, exercise, pre-diabetes

Benefits of Coffee : Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

March 15, 2015 21174 4
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

coffee and your heart

Decades ago in the 70’s and 80’s there was a flurry of articles published in major medical journals that implicated coffee drinking as a risk factor for heart attacks. It was reported that the risk was related to the amount of coffee consumed: the more coffee, the higher the risk. But as research techniques improved,…

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition Tagged With: Cholesterol, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

Metformin Weight Loss – Does it Work?

November 26, 2014 224630 59
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

Metformin Weight Loss

Metformin weight loss claims are something that are often talked about by health professionals to be one of the benefits of commencing metformin therapy, but are they true? This is Similar to Phentermine. At myheart.net we've helped millions of people through our articles and answers. Now our authors are keeping readers up to date with cutting…

Filed Under: Exercise Tagged With: Diabetes, Losing Weight, weight loss

The Insulin Resistance Diet – Fat, Fat and More Fat

July 9, 2014 10332 2
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

The Insulin Resistance Diet – Fat, Fat and More Fat

The Insulin resistance diet is the holy grail in reversing and treating diabetes, but it is not as elusive as you may think. For the purpose of this article, when I refer to the insulin resistance diet, I imply a diet that helps to reduce or prevent insulin resistance and I use it interchangeably with…

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Heart Health Tagged With: Diabetes, high fat diet, Losing Weight, weight loss

Do Artificial Sweeteners Cause Insulin Release?

May 5, 2014 22089 6
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Artificial Sweeteners & Insulin

 Mustafa Ahmed MD Do Artificial Sweeteners Cause Insulin Release - Why Do People Care So Much? The search for the answer has reached almost mythical status, and is most commonly asked by those following a low carbohydrate diet, such as the Atkins diet. Lets briefly look at the theory behind the Atkins diet, which is…

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition Tagged With: Diabetes, Nutrition & Supplements, weight loss

Are Carbohydrates The Real Enemy?

March 12, 2014 6209 0
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

Donut as Part of High Fat Diet

For decades fat has been labeled as the enemy when it comes to obesity, diabetes and a whole range of health problems. In the medical world it has been blamed for the deposition of plaques in arteries and the cause of high cholesterol, and in the fitness world it is deemed the reason why people…

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Heart Health Tagged With: carbohydrate, Diabetes, Losing Weight, obesity, paleo diet, protein, weight loss

Prediabetes – What is it and Who is at Risk?

December 18, 2013 7832 0
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

Diabetes is one of the most significant chronic medical diseases that currently afflicts the population.  Diabetes should not in fact be seen as a disease in itself but rather as a causation of several other debilitating diseases.  Unlike, for example, chronic pulmonary disease which mainly effects one organ system (the lungs), diabetes causes coronary artery…

Filed Under: Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Blood sugar, Diabetes, pre-diabetes

The 35-45 year old health check – (Part III) – The Physical Examination

October 1, 2013 4214 0
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

  By Murtaza Ahmed MD So hopefully before reading this you have already read Part I and Part II and understand why it is so important that you have a health check and what kind of things should have been focused on in the history.  Only after a good thorough history has been taken should…

Filed Under: Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, heart disease, obesity

The 35-45 Year-Old Health Check – (Part 1) – Why is it so important?

September 10, 2013 5596 0
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

  By Murtaza Ahmed MD As I mentioned in my previous post, the obesity epidemic, one of the most common presentations of the 35-45 year old  patient is for a ‘general health check’.  There is something about this age that makes people conscious that there may be aspects of their health that require attention.  The…

Filed Under: Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

Understanding Kidney Disease

September 8, 2013 8852 0
Dr. Julian Booker

Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease is a condition where your kidneys have been damaged and do not perform their primary functions at peak capacity. In addition to the aforementioned duties, the kidney’s most well-known function is to help filter the blood of various toxins and excess byproducts of metabolism.

Filed Under: General Health Tagged With: Blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic Illness, Diabetes, edema, Heart failure, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), shortness of breath

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