High glycemic index and glycemic load diets increase the risk of Type 2 Diabetes

High glycemic index and glycemic load diets increase the risk of Type 2 Diabetes

At a Glance
Results from 3 large cohort studies and a recently updated meta-analysis provide additional evidence that higher dietary glycemic index and glycemic load diets are associated with an elevated risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Read more about this research below.
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been a worldwide public health concern for several decades. It is projected to be the seventh leading cause of death by 2030. Many good studies have shown that a healthy diet and lifestyle can be even more effective at preventing T2D than medical or pharmaceutical interventions.

In a recent study published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers examined the association of dietary carbohydrate quality, using glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL), and the risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Researchers followed 164,659 women from 1991-2008 that took part in the Nurses Health Studies I and II, and 40, 498 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. All were free of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer at the beginning of the study periods. Periodic questionnaires were used to analyze diet and lifestyle.  The researchers updated a meta-analysis which also included the results from the 3 cohort studies.

After compiling the results of the 3 population studies, it was found that the adults with diets in the highest quintile (20%) of energy-adjusted GI had a 33% higher risk of T2D than those with diets in the lowest 20% of GI. Subjects in the highest GL group had a 10% higher risk of T2D than those in the lowest group. Consumption of a combination diet that was high in GI or GL but low in cereal fiber had a 50% greater risk of T2D. When comparing the highest with lowest categories of GI and GL in the updated meta-analysis researcher found an increased risk of T2D of 19% and 13% respectively. 

The results from these studies confirm that consuming a high-GI/GL diet is associated with a higher risk of Type 2 Diabetes, especially when cereal fiber intake is also low.

Shilpa N Bhupathiraju et al.  Glycemic index, glycemic load, and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from 3 large US cohorts and an updated meta-analysis.  Am J Clin Nutr.  First published April 30, 2014, doi: 10.3945/​ajcn.113.079533 [Epub ahead of print].


       

Global Warning Means Global Flooding - Serbia & Bosnia

 Global Warming Means Flooding

My good friend Vladimir Debeljak, MD is witnessing something horrible in his country. Please share this information to help. He wrote me ; "I'm ok but there are many casualties in flooded cities, thousands of people have been evacuated and lost their homes, can you please share these picture with contact numbers for donating, I will contact you if I find if there is anything that you can help. Thank you very much for your help and sympathies."
My friends unless you want to build an ark like NOAH we need to turn to solar, wind and plain old conservation now. The time of waste is over. This is the cost. With the torrential rains we just had here in New York Friday May 15 had me fearing a repeat of Hurricane Sandy. We got one. In Eastern Europe.

Hypnotherapy as an Empathetic Treatment Franka Fiala Slyvia Moran

Franka Fiala and Sylvia Moran hypnotherapists in arms

"Nothing can ever take away your light. Nothing can ever limit you.
When you can feel deep appreciation within your heart, without judgement, without assumptions, when you can accept your light truly, understanding that it needed to rid the ego , when you step into your own power, without needing to know where it leads, when you know of the support around you, love will flow from you to others eternally, abundance and consciousness will be you, because that is the light you were meant to be" - Franka Fiala

 

The Art of Multidimensional Alignment of How to Get Out of Your Own Way

This was the message (see quote above) I ended up drawing from an unmarked stack of envelopes passed around to the small group attending Franka Fiala and Sylvia Moran's Multi - Dimensional Alignment workshop Saturday, May 10 at the A.R.E. Edgar Cayce center in Manhattan. ( I appreciated it because my intention is to tour more with my show Yoga on the Dance Floor and if there were ever wiser words for the best attitude to have during touring I couldn't think of one).  We were asked to set an intention, to set a goal that we would like to achieve by the end of the workshop. The messages each person drew came in handy for reference to help keep the participants minds focused on that goal. So many emotions and mental distractions  come up during a workshop taking us away from the I. Our cultural tendency is to blame external circumstances be it a person or event or even a  series of events for  the nature of our lives and how disempowering is that? Very.  In this workshop the emphasis was squarely on "I" in the most positive victimless sense  with no deflecting allowed via the gentle language used by Franka and Susan.  The workshop these empathetic hypnotists in arms hold are designed to give individuals tools to improve their daily lives by putting into practice some simple exercises to shift mood, attitude or consciouness if you prefer. What makes this duo so unusual is that they serve as sponges filtering out dis- eases for clients. In fact as I was chatting with the pair before the workshop began they pointed out that the clothes they wore were intentionally loose fitting as they would literally expand in their bodily size by the end of the workshop. This "weight gain" is a result of their own bodies processing the negativity and discomforts of attendees. They act as a conduit to pass out toxins and true by the end of the 5 hours Franka and Sylvia had visibly doubled in size along the waist. If you are interested in living a more whole life via the methods employed Franka and Slyvia you may contact them via franka@frankafiala.com

"There is the physical body, there is the mental body, there is the spiritual body. They are one. They each have their attributes. They each have their weaknesses. They each have their associations. Yet they must be all coordinated." -- Edgar Cayce 

The Ladies Credentials

Franka Fiala is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist with the International Association of Counselors & Therapists (IACT), Certified Master Trainer for IACT, Certified Professional Speaker-Trainer (American Association of Professional Speakers and Trainers), and an  Advanced Clinical Hypnotist (Institute for Advanced Neuro-Research and Education, New York).  She was awarded the "Chapter of the Year Award 2009" by IACT.
Franka teaches professional hypnotherapy certification seminars in New York City and Puerto Rico, and is the founder of "Art of Embracing Life", a non-profit center offering transformational workshops in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.  She has helped over 2000 people create balance in their lives with Professional Hypnotherapy, Holographic and Vibrational Alignment, Cellular Cleanse (pulling dis-ease and energetic blockages from the physical cells of the client's body and processing the removed energy through her body), channelings from the Arcturians and other high vibrational non-physical beings, and intuitive work.

Colonel Sylvia Moran, U.S. Army, Retired, graduated from West Point in 1980, in the first class with women.  A military intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East, she served in a variety of positions, spanning from platoon leader in the 82d Airborne Division, to Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to the Vice President of the United States.  In addition to being a career soldier and combat veteran, Sylvia is a Certified Hypnotherapist and a Certified Instructor with the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT), specializing in multi-dimensional work, to include timeline transfer (assisting clients in aligning past, present, parallel, future and other-dimensional selves).  Sylvia is also a certified international Body Harmony® practitioner and Holographic Alignment specialist who assists clients in removing physical manifestations of illness and emotional residue from the tissues of their bodies.

Weekly Essentials of Health : Higher fiber intake improves survival time after a heart attack

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Higher fiber intake improves survival time after a heart attack

At a Glance
A new study shows that people who survive heart attacks may improve their chance of survival by increasing their dietary intake of fiber.

Read more about this research below.
Diet plays an important role in the development of heart disease, yet secondary prevention guidelines tend to emphasize pharmaceuticals over diet and lifestyle recommendations.  Adequate dietary fiber intake is known to be associated with a lowered risk of many conditions, such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Whether, and to what extent, fiber intake impacts survival after a heart attack is less known.

In a new study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers analyzed data from two large studies, the Nurse’s Health Study and the Health Professional Follow-Up Study, to determine whether increased fiber intake would improve chances of survival after a heart attack. Of the total of 173,229 patients in the study, researchers looked at 4,098 men and women who had survived a first heart attack and followed them for an average of nine years. Detailed questionnaires were completed several times during the follow-up period and used to analyze lifestyle habits.

Participants were separated into five groups (quintiles) according to their dietary fiber intake after their heart attack. Those who ate the most fiber had a 25% lower chance of dying from any cause in the nine years after their heart attack compared with those who ate the least fiber. When considering only cardiovascular causes of death (heart attack, stroke and coronary heart disease), the top quintile had a 13% lower mortality risk than those with the lowest intake. Researchers also found that every 10g per day increase in dietary fiber was associated with a 15% lower risk of death over the nine-year follow-up period.

When the specific type of dietary fiber was looked at individually (cereal, fruit or vegetable), only higher cereal fiber intake was strongly associated with an increase in long-term survival after a heart attack.

Currently, only 5% of Americans consume the minimum recommendation of dietary fiber of 25 g per day for women and 38 g per day for men. With more people surviving heart attacks, it is increasingly important to emphasize healthy lifestyle choices in addition to appropriate medication to improve long-term health and survival.

Shanshan Li et al. Dietary fiber intake and mortality among survivors of myocardial infarction: prospective cohort study BMJ 2014;348:g2659 doi: 10.1136/bmj.g2659

Moderate soy intake is not related to a negative breast cancer prognosis

Originally Published April 17, 2013 The Essentials of Health by Usana Health Sciences

Moderate soy intake is not related to a negative breast cancer prognosis
At a Glance
Recent epidemiologic studies report no adverse effects of soy foods on breast cancer survival or prognosis. 
Read more about this research below.
Contrary to earlier clinical studies and some popular media suggesting that soy
may promote breast tumor growth, three recent studies show that moderate
intakes of soy-containing foods are not adversely related to breast
cancer prognosis. In the most recent study researchers used data from the Women’s
Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study to examine the effect of soy
intake on breast cancer prognosis. Soy isoflavone intake was assessed in
3,088 breast cancer survivors diagnosed between 1991 and 2000. After an
average follow-up of 7.3 years, it was found that as isoflavone intake
increased, risk of death decreased. Women whose intake was >16.3 mg
of isoflavones had a 54% reduction in the risk of death.
This is the third recent epidemiologic study to report no adverse
effects of soy foods on breast cancer prognosis. Because these studies
varied by ethnicity and the level and type of soy consumed, the
investigators stated that when taken together, these studies provide
evidence to suggest that it may not be necessary for clinicians to
advise against moderate soy consumption for women with a diagnosis of
breast cancer.
Caan BJ et al. Soy food consumption and breast cancer prognosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 May;20(5):854-8.
The following is a summary of a previous Essentials of Health from Jan 27, 2010. Also included are two more recent study references with similar outcomes.
“In a large prospective study of female breast cancer patients
treated surgically, moderate soy intake was associated with a
significant decrease in death and cancer recurrence during a 4 year
follow-up. Women whose intake of soy protein was among the top 25
percent of participants had a 29 percent lower risk of death during
follow-up and a 32 percent lower risk of recurrence compared to those
whose intake was in the lowest quarter.  This study suggests that
moderate soy food intake is safe and potentially beneficial for women
with breast cancer.”
Shu XO et al. Soy food intake and breast cancer survival.  JAMA 2009;302(22):2437-2443
Zhang YF, et al. Positive effects of soy isoflavone food on
survival of breast cancer patients in China.  Asian Pac J Cancer Prev.
2012;13(2):479-82.
Nechuta SJ et al. Soy food intake after diagnosis of breast cancer
and survival: an in-depth analysis of combined evidence from cohort
studies of US and Chinese women.  Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Jul;96(1):123-32.

Biking Brooklyn The Living Connection with Ekayani Chamberlin Health & L...

How to Detox Your Liver in the Spring with Seasonal Vegetables and Supplements

Make like a rabbit and gobble up veggies Display by Lee Chappell

April showers bring May flowers Karina and Ekayani

How to Detox Your Liver Using Spring Vegetables 

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Spring has sprung and you will be seeing more greens (at last) in your green market. Take advantage of dandelion leaves and make a salad (it's not just a weed!), sautee some asparagus, and serve radishes at your next party! All these vegetables are great for supporting liver health due to their high Vitamin C content. They also have anti carcinogenic qualities. How is that so? Listen here to Karina Yanku, host of
The Healing Artist Internet Radio Show and myself, Ekayani Chamberlin, Health and Lifestyle Coach talk about Chinese clocks and Spring Detox.
Recorded live @ City World Radio, New York, NY on April 15, 2014
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Black radishes are white on the inside.

French radishes have white tips

Asparagus is lovely in soup.

Dandelion was a welcome addition to diets after a long winter.
 Rich in D,C,A and B complex. You'll never think of them as "just weeds" again!