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Dietary tips for treating Anxiety?
Fear and anxiety differ in one key respect, fear is a response to a real threat or danger while anxiety is a similar response to an imagined or perceived threat. Anxiety disorders are very common.
Does Pomegranate Juice eliminate muscle soreness?
Researchers from the Human Performance Lab at the University of Texas at Austin have found that men who supplemented with pomegranate juice experienced…
- increased elbow flexion strength, and
- decreased elbow flexor muscle soreness
… after performing a series of eccentric strength exercises.
Which supplements work for diabetes?
The incidence of diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. Worldwide, approximately 250 million people have diabetes—according to the World Health Organization. In Canada, the number of patients with diabetes is projected to increase from 1.4 million in 2000 to 2.4 million in 2016 [1]. What’s more is that the health care cost associated with this increase in Canada will jump from $4.6 billion in 2000 to $8.14 billion in 2016.
Keep in mind that even these projects do not include people who have type 2 diabetes, but haven’t yet been diagnosed. As well, approximately 90% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes.
Studies suggest that anywhere from 8 to 49% of patients with diabetes use nutritional supplements. A recent review article published in the journal, Current Diabetes Reports, provides a review of the effectiveness of various supplements for preventing or treating diabetes [2].
On their list of potentially effective supplements, they include:
While the standard treatment for type 2 diabetes includes lifestyle modification (diet, exercise) along with pharmaceutical drugs, an increasing number of patients with diabetes are using complimentary and alternative therapies. Of those listed as potentially effective, which ones actually work according to the previously cited review study?
