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The postmenopausal survivors of breast cancer have a higher risk of developing diabetes and should be examined more carefully in order to detect the disease, suggest a new study.

The researchers analyzed medical data from the years 1996-2008 in the province of Ontario, Canada, to determine the incidence of diabetes among the nearly 25,000 breast cancer survivors 55 years of age or older and nearly 125,000 women in the same average age without breast cancer.

During a median follow-up of more than five years, nearly 10 percent of all women in the study had developed diabetes. Compared with those who had not had breast cancer, diabetes risk among breast cancer survivors was 7 percent higher than two years after the diagnosis of cancer and a 21 percent higher 10 years after cancer diagnosis, the researchers found.

The risk of diabetes, however, decreased over time among breast cancer survivors who had undergone chemotherapy. Your risk compared to women without breast cancer was 24 percent higher in the first two years after diagnosis of cancer and 8 percent 10 years after diagnosis of cancer, according to the study.

May chemotherapy treatment may contribute to the early development of diabetes in susceptible women. An increase in the rate of weight gain can be observed after receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer, which may be a factor in increasing the diabetes risk in women receiving treatment.

Skip taking medication in treatment can cost you. From waste to health economic issue, to life-threatening. It has been shown that the risk of a stroke, for example, is reduced by nine percent among patients compliant drug administration that have been given.

How to improve compliance with the treatment?

Set simple guidelines and accessible. Ensuring the comfort in the sense that the patient does not have to transform your life patterns too, and as you can combine the dailies with their daily activities, for example to associate a meal or other activity.

Motivation and seeks to motivate the patient by self index cards, custom software, track improvement, or by the learning of techniques in handling devices such as blood pressure, diabetes pen, etc … can be fostered if the reward compliance optimal treatment, by greeting, or recognition of the effort that has been subjected to the same course.

Set reminder systems. It involves using technology using warning systems that distribute mobile alerts the patient. Also included individualized dosing systems.

Efficiency in control. Seeking greater efficacy regarding the administrative and scheduling appointments, including patient reminders, which would avoid costs by repetition and forgetfulness.

Education. Promoting patient education through information to be able to prevent and treat the disease more effectively.

The supplements containing one of the compounds found in curry spice may help prevent diabetes in people at high risk, according to a Thai study. The researchers found that after nine months, a daily dose of Curcumin appears to prevent new cases of diabetes among those with prediabetes call, ie abnormally high levels of blood sugar that can progress to type 2 diabetes.

Curcumin is a compound of the spice turmeric. Previous research has suggested that can combat inflammation and oxidative damage called body cells. These two processes are believed to feed a variety of diseases, including type 2 diabetes.

The study included 240 adults with prediabetes Thais were randomly assigned to take turmeric capsules or a placebo. Those who took six capsules curcumin supplement ingested per day, each of which contained 250 mg of “curcuminoids”. After nine months, 19 of the 116 placebo-treated patients had developed type 2 diabetes. The figure compares with that none of the 119 patients treated with curcumin.

The researchers found that supplementation appears to improve beta cell function, which are the cells of the pancreas hormone releasing regulating blood sugar, namely insulin. They hope that the anti-inflammatory effects of curcumin help protect beta cells from damage.

However, further testing is necessary to consider the daily calories of each patient, their exercise habits and rhythms. It is also impossible to determine whether the spices containing compound marketed and how much is presented.

It is essential for over 300 different chemical reactions in the body, including the maintenance power level, which helps to relax, and the maintenance of health of the heart and blood vessels. Unfortunately, in most developed countries, magnesium deficiency is probably the most common nutritional deficiency. Because it has many crucial functions, and it seems protects us from serious diseases that more common in the developed world, the magnesium is really the “miracle mineral”.

One of its most common uses is to relieve constipation, you may recognize it as the active ingredient in laxatives common in the market. It is also a natural blocker of calcium channels - many integrative medicine practitioners have used supplement magnesium to help lower blood pressure and maintain a healthy blood pressure.

While we often hear about the importance of calcium for bones, magnesium is another mineral essential for healthy bones. In addition, because many people take calcium without magnesium pills, may actually have a greater need for magnesium to calcium in people who are more vulnerable to osteoporosis. 

Magnesium is probably the most important nutrient for our energy enhancer, heart, and muscle helps the heart work better. Magnesium also helps protect blood vessels, which is where most of what we call heart disease actually happen. Magnesium is also a natural blood thinner, like aspirin, so many doctors and researchers believe it may help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Perhaps the area in which the magnesium could have the greatest impact in preventing diabetes : Scientists have shown that magnesium levels are low in people with diabetes, people with higher levels of magnesium do not develop diabetes, and magnesium supplementation seems to help reverse pre-diabetes.

As with all minerals in food, the ore has to be present in the soil where food is grown. The best sources of magnesium include beans, especially soybeans, whole grain, including the bran, nuts like almonds and Brazil nuts, and seeds, including flaxseed, sesame and sunflower. The cocoa powder dry, and dark chocolate are also a great (and delicious) source.

Job stress doubles the risk of developing diabetes in women who have little or no control over what they do at work, according to a new Canadian study. The same does not apply to men.

According to Peter Smith, author of a study conducted for nine years by researchers at the Institute for Work and Health and the Institute for Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, men and women react differently to stress labor.

Smith suggests, as a possible explanation of the results, that women under stress may be more likely to resort to foods high in fat and sugar than men .

The main reasons given in the study to the increased risk for women are interruptions to the operation of the neuroendocrine and immune system and increasing or prolonging the release of the cortisol hormone and sympathetic reaction to stress , and changes in diet and energy expenditure that this implies, possibly as survival mechanisms.

The researchers looked closely at 7443 women working in the Canadian province of Ontario, without filing a prior diagnosis of diabetes. Results showed that 19 percent of diabetes cases in women were due to what is understood as ” little control over their work “, a higher percentage than factors such as smoking, drinking alcohol or a low level of physical activity, although lower than obesity.