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“Autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis occur when the immune system mistakes the body's own proteins for those released by invading pathogens.”

“A dose-response meta-analysis of 30 prospective studies, including more than 1.18 million participants, associated each additional daily cup with about a 6 percent lower incidence of type 2 diabetes, with similar patterns for caffeinated and decaf coffee.”

“Overeating – whether it's an occasional practice or a chronic problem – can promote weight gain and a host of other health problems such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Mindfulness has emerged as a powerful strategy for breaking harmful habits like overeating because it helps people be more aware of their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations as they eat.”

“The participants with prediabetes and diabetes were more likely to have fewer butyrate-producing bacteria in their guts. Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid produced during bacterial fermentation in the human colon. It has wide-ranging effects on human physiology.”

“A new clinical trial finds that eating 12 eggs per week for a year did not increase cardiovascular risk factors in people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and they achieved equivalent weight loss to those eating less than two eggs per week. Previous studies have shown men who ate approximately 4 eggs per week had a 37% lower risk of type 2 diabetes than those that ate 1 egg per week.”

“Interestingly, the same type of microbiome restructuring was not observed for control mice without diabetes that were fasted, indicating that the diabetic microenvironment may play a role in the specific microbiome restructuring observed in this study.”

“Prenatal folate supplementation prevents an estimated 70 percent of neural tube defects, but additional therapies are needed. A recent report describes the relationship between maternal diabetes and abnormal cell aging in the fetal nervous system in mice.”

“Other parts of the body may be affected, too, including the kidneys, brain, skin, and olfactory tissues. Evidence from a recent study indicates that SARS-CoV-2 infects pancreatic beta cells, increasing the risk of developing diabetes.”

“People with preexisting health conditions such as diabetes are at higher risk of severe illness and even death with COVID-19. The retrospective, multi-centered study reviewed 7,337 cases of COVID-19 patients in Hubei Province, China.”

“Researchers analyzed the findings of six randomized controlled trials that investigated the effects of omega-3s in women with gestational diabetes. The studies included more than 330 pregnant women, and the duration of the various trials was six weeks.”