Can Supplements Help People with Diabetes Avoid Retinopathy?
In theory, Vitamins C and E and magnesium could help prevent or limit diabetic retinopathy (DR), a potentially blinding disease, since each nutrient causes the body to respond in ways that alter retinopathy mechanisms.

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Caffeine consumption associated with less severe liver fibrosis
Researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases determined that patients with chronic hepatitis C virus who consumed more than 308 mg of caffeine daily had milder liver fibrosis. The daily amount of caffeine intake found to be beneficial is equivalent to 2.25 cups of regular coffee. Details of this study are available in the January 2010 issue of Hepatology …

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Vitamin C Cures Fast Aging Mice from Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Failure, High Cholesterol
In the research report in the January 2010 issue, a team of Canadian scientists show that vitamin C stops and even reverses accelerated aging in a mouse model of Werner’s syndrome, but the discovery may also be applicable to other progeroid syndromes.

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Sleep loss may affect health by curbing exercise
A number of studies have linked chronic sleep deprivation to a heightened risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Now, a small study suggests that low levels of physical activity during the day may partly account for the connection.

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Help available for people living with diabetes
(ARA) – It’s a long drive out to the rural diabetes clinic where she makes her educational presentations, but Janie Burmester knows that the work she’s doing can have a huge impact on people’s lives. Burmester is one of about 15,000 Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs) in the United States.

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