Blogs

Dietary advanced glycation end-products and postmenopausal hot flashes: A post-hoc analysis of a 12-week randomized clinical trial (March 24, 2023) - click for the full study The participants in this study are postmenopausal women aged 40-65 and although living with diabetes was not a requirement of the study, the intervention is promising in reducing hot flashes while supportive of preventive health for women living with diabetes and/or insulin resistance. Objective: Dietary advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) may act as endocrine disruptors, this study examined the potential association of modifications to the intake of dietary AGEs with ...

This article was published on Diatribe.org in May, 2023. https://diatribe.org/how-to-change-your-attitude-about-diabetes by Lauren Plunkett RDN CDCES Are you feeling angry and fearful about diabetes? There’s a way to channel that negative energy into something productive and motivating. “My blood sugar was great yesterday, but today, I have absolutely had it. I’m all over the place. I’m putting the work in and still, my blood sugars will not stop moving. I am so pissed! ” If this resonates with you, perhaps you’re recalling that voice of criticism inside your head going off about time in range or a high blood glucose spike. If you beat yourself ...

Friends of PBN, This blog has been well-received by fellow dietitians and was inspired by an interview for a Spanish speaking radio show. Shout out to Lily @Bertha Gonzalez ! The first meal of the day seems to be one of the greatest challenges for people moving towards a more plant-centric lifestyle. I tapped into my own kitchen, hyperlinked some of my go-to products for eating high-fiber, and linked several recipes citing PCRM, Forks Over Knives, and other PBN resources. I hope you find this as helpful as I do! Click the pic to read the blog ​​ #plantbasednutrition

I first learned of a whole food plant based diet through our local state ADA meeting. I have always been interested in counseling my patients on diet, although as the pharmacist I tend to mainly discuss medication changes. After hearing another pharmacist talk about a plant based diet at a diabetes conference it piqued my interest. I dove into researching such a diet that claimed to be able to have incredible effects on chronic disease state outcomes. After listening to several podcasts and reading a few books I learned of the research backing the power of this diet. I adopted the diet for myself for personal health benefits, but also to be able to more effectively ...

This is a re-post of a blog posted on the website of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. I had the privilege of attending and testifying in front of the committee working on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Here is a brief on a letter that was sent to the committee by the American Medical Association. We are hoping the guidelines are more culturally sensitive and state that meat and dairy products are optional. In response to the Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), the American Medical Association has reiterated its call for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fight racial health disparities by ...

Author: Caroline Trapp, DNP, ANP-BC, CDCES, DIPACLM, FAANP Director, Diabetes Education & Care Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Thank you, Denise, for inviting me to write for the Plant-Based Nutrition COI! Since 2010, I’ve had the privilege of working with many citizens of the Navajo Nation to address diabetes. American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the United States. The people of the Navajo Nation, based in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, have also been especially hard hit by COVID-19, in large part because of preexisting diabetes, as well as factors that make the spread of the virus difficult ...