All Videos for Blood Sugar

Are Avocados Fattening?

Studies funded by the Avocado Board suggest avocados may facilitate weight loss, but compared to what?



The Best Food for High Cholesterol

Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla—dried Indian gooseberries—too good to be true?



The Antioxidant Effects of Açai vs. Apples

Açaí berries are touted for their antioxidant power, but does that translate into increased antioxidant capacity of your bloodstream when you eat them?



The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation

Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.



How to Prevent Blood Sugar & Triglyceride Spikes After Meals

Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight nerve response. Thankfully, there are foods we can eat at every meal to counter this reaction.



Which Are Better: Chia Seeds or Flaxseeds?

What effect do chia seeds have on weight loss, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation?



Does Paratuberculosis in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes?

“Fear of consumer reaction” led the U.S. dairy industry to suppress the discovery in retail milk of live paraTB bacteria, a pathogen linked to type 1 diabetes.



What Causes Insulin Resistance?

Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are caused by a drop in insulin sensitivity blamed on “intramyocellular lipid,” the buildup of fat inside our muscle cells.



Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda?

Sugar is no longer considered just empty calories, but an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. So what happens if you switch to artificial sweeteners?



Gut Microbiome – Strike It Rich with Whole Grains

What can we eat to increase good gut bacteria richness in our colon?



Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



Vinegar Mechanisms and Side Effects

Does vinegar work by slowing stomach emptying, acting as a starch blocker, or improving insulin sensitivity? What might be the downsides?



Optimal Vinegar Dose

How much vinegar should you consume with a meal to improve satiety and reduce the spike in blood sugar, insulin, and triglycerides?



Can Vinegar Help with Blood Sugar Control?

Before drugs came along, the consumption of vinegar with meals was used as a folk remedy for diabetes, but it wasn’t put to the test until recently.



Curing Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

Diabetics suffering from nerve pain for years are cured within days with a plant-based diet.



Effect of Sucralose (Splenda) on the Microbiome

What effect do artificial sweeteners such as sucralose (Splenda), saccharin (Sweet & Low), aspartame (Nutrasweet), and acesulfame K (Sweet One) have on our gut bacteria?



Diabetes Reversal: Is It the Calories or the Food?

Even when study subjects were required to eat so much that they didn’t lose any weight, a plant-based diet could still reverse type 2 diabetes in a matter of weeks.



Reversing Diabetes with Food

Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with severe calorie restriction—whether by surgery or starvation—but did you know it can also be reversed simply by eating healthier?



Reversing Diabetes with Surgery

When type 2 diabetes is reversed after gastric bypass surgery, is it due to the actual operation or just the severely restrictive diet required for recovery?



When Drugs and Diets Don’t Lower Diabetes Deaths

Why do some drug-based strategies shorten the lives of diabetics and some diet-based strategies fail to decrease diabetes deaths?



Turmeric Curcumin for Prediabetes

A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial on the use of the turmeric pigment curcumin to prevent diabetes in prediabetics is published with extraordinary results.



Eating More to Weigh Less

Energy density explains how a study can show participants lose an average of 17 pounds within 21 days while eating a greater quantity of food.



The Five-to-One Fiber Rule

A guideline is suggested for how to read food labels for grain products such as bread and breakfast cereals.



Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes

When placed head-to-head against the American Diabetes Association diet, how do plant-based diets fare in terms of not only blood sugar, body weight, and cholesterol control, but also mood and quality of life?



Green Smoothies: What Does the Science Say?

Might disrupting the fiber by blending fruit result in overly rapid sugar absorption?



Are Green Smoothies Bad for You?

Eating intact grains, beans, and nuts (as opposed to bread, hummus, and nut butters) may have certain advantages for our gut flora and blood sugar control, raising questions about blending fruits and vegetables.



How May Plants Protect Against Diabetes?

Protective properties of whole plant foods against diabetes include antioxidants, lipotropes, fiber, and the ability to suppress the estrogen-producing bacteria in our gut.



How to Prevent a Stroke

Insufficient intake of fiber-rich foods may lead to the stiffening of our arteries associated with risk of having a stroke.



Diabetes as a Disease of Fat Toxicity

The “twin vicious cycles” explain how the buildup of fat in the cells of our muscles, liver, and pancreas causes type 2 diabetes, which explains why dietary recommendations for diabetics encourage a reduction in fat intake.



Switching from Beef to Chicken & Fish May Not Lower Cholesterol

The negative impact of red meat on our cholesterol profile may be similar to that of white meat.



Can Oatmeal Help Fatty Liver Disease?

Is whole grain consumption just a marker for healthier behaviors, or do whole grains have direct health benefits?



Plant-Based Workplace Intervention

Employee wellness programs may help boost the corporate bottom line.



Lipotoxicity: How Saturated Fat Raises Blood Sugar

The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and less insulin resistance may be because saturated fats appear to impair blood sugar control the most.



The Spillover Effect Links Obesity to Diabetes

Being obese may result in as much insulin resistance as eating a high-fat diet.



What Causes Insulin Resistance? (Older Version)

Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are caused by a drop in insulin sensitivity blamed on “intramyocellular lipid,” the buildup of fat inside our muscle cells.



Are Raisins Good Snacks for Kids?

The California Raisin Marketing Board need not have funded such misleading studies, given the healthfulness of their product.



How Many Meet the Simple Seven?

The American Heart Association came up with seven simple lifestyle goals to combat the leading killer of men and women: heart disease.



If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?

Does the fructose naturally found in fruit and fruit juice have the same adverse effects as excess “industrial fructose” (table sugar and high fructose corn syrup) and if not, why not?



Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses

There’s a reason that professional diabetes associations recommend bean, chickpea, split pea, and lentil consumption as a means of optimizing diabetes control.



Preventing Prediabetes by Eating More

A head-to-head test of adding beans vs. portion control for metabolic syndrome.