23, May 2014

Two meals a day may be best for type 2 diabetics

Eating a hearty breakfast and lunch might benefit people suffering from Type 2 diabetes who are now encouraged to go with up to six small portions a day, according to a new study. ‘We compared the efficiency of the classic model with five or six small meals a day with that of two larger meals, breakfast and lunch, having more or less the same daily calorie count,’ Hana Kahleova, a researcher at Prague’s IKEM institute, told AFP on Tuesday. The research focused on a sample of 54 men and women aged 30-70 who suffer from obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which is not insulin dependent.

Within three months, those who ate larger meals twice a day lost 1.4 kilos (three pounds) more than those who followed the classic model, Kahleova said. ‘Levels of sugar, insulin and glucagon on an empty stomach also fell more rapidly in patients who ate in the morning and at midday, and their sensibility to insulin also improved.’ But she warned that ‘anyone taking insulin cannot start on this diet without consulting a doctor,’ saying it would require a significant adjustment of the insulin dosage. She added that more extensive research was now needed to confirm the results of the study.‘We cannot draw general recommendations based on this single study,’ she told AFP

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

23.05.2014

Nasal spray could soon replace pills to deliver drugs to brain

Researchers have said that when it comes to brain diseases pills are actually an extremely ineffecient way to deliver drugs to the brain. Massimiliano Di Cagno, assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, said people with brain diseases are often given huge amounts of unnecessary drugs. During a long life, or if you have a chronic disease, this may become problematic for your health.

He and his colleagues at University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg University have turned their attention to the nose – specifically the nasal wall and the slimy mucosa that covers it. As we know from e.g. cocaine addicts, substances can be assimilated extremely quickly and directly through the nose. But many medical substances, however, need help to be transported through the nasal wall and further on to the relevant places in the brain.  

The vehicles for drug delivery through the nose are typically made of so called polymers. A polymer is a large molecule composed of a large number of repeats of one or more types of atoms or groups of atoms bound to each other. Polymers can be natural or synthetic, simple or complex. The study has been published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

23.05.2014

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve

 Napoleon Hill