The average life expectancy of a 40 year-old American male with untreated type II diabetes is 11.6 years shorter than that of his healthy counterpart; for females this shortening amounts to 14.3 years.
Very few pages of the great culinary treaties of the Middle Ages are dedicated to sweet recipes. Desserts as we know them scarcely existed because sugar was a rare and expensive commodity. Before the colonial sugarcane plantations made it more abundant, cooks only had honey or beet sugar at their disposal. And even during Queen Victoria’s reign, a pound of…
Diabetes is always related to an anomaly involving the hormone insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Insulin allows our cells to use the glucose supplied by the foods in our diet. If we do not secrete enough insulin, or if it does not work properly, as in diabetics, this glucose is not able to fuel the cells. It therefore…
Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as « non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus » usually appears in middle age. It is emblematic of the Western lifestyle and of our plentiful societies: by abusing sweets and foods rich in hidden carbohydrates, we gradually disrupt our metabolism. Fortunately, before developing diabetes, one always goes through an asymptomatic phase, i.e. symptom-free, during which one doesn’t feel sick at…
One doesn’t become diabetic in a day, or even in a year. Type 2 diabetes is a slowly progressing chronic disease. Before that, there is always a phase of prediabetes that can last from two to twenty-five years. During this phase, it is still possible to stop the evolution towards type 2 diabetes.
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(In French) What do Linda, a 35-year-old executive assistant, Kate, a 40-year-old salesperson, Naomi, a 27-year-old engineer, Karl and Anna, 60-year-old pensioners have in common? Despite differences in way of life, eating habits and careers, they all have weight to lose and, above all, a tremendous deficit in satiety: these persons – who are like us – don’t hear the…
How can the pleasure brought by sugar, by repetitive behaviors, eventually provoke a pathology as disabling as type II diabetes? The prediabetes, poorly insidious recently identified, affects a growing number of people. But it is reversible, because it is possible to act to prevent its aggravation to type II diabetes. The solution requires early detection and simple measures. That’s what…
(In French) Are you tired of dieting and jogging to lose weight, only to gain back as soon as you take a break? There is one solution: understanding why you gain weight. In other words, how your metabolism works. It is now a well-known fact that it is dependant on many hormones. Not only insulin but also the newly-discovered adiponectin,…