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January 1, 2006

By David Mendosa


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Fit and Fat

  • Fit and Fat

    You can stop worrying about your weight. It’s more important — to say nothing of being more realistic — to become more active every day. Fitness trumps weight loss for people with diabetes, almost all of whom are overweight.

    This is the welcomed and inspiring message of Sheri Colberg, PhD. You can be healthy even if you have excess body fat. No matter what you weigh, regular exercise will make you healthier. Dieting probably won’t because it usually fails because of subsequent rebound in weight. This yo-yo dieting isn’t good for anyone’s health.

    As I read Dr. Colberg’s book, I kept thinking that it is even more important for overweight people with diabetes to exercise than it is for those of normal weight. Since I didn’t remember that she made that point, I asked her.

    “Yes, I would agree with that,” she replied. “Although it is better to be ‘fit and fat,’ it is always best to be ‘fit and thin’ if possible.”

    Her new book, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan, is the third book of this exercise physiologist and associate professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Last year I reviewed her second book, Diabetes-Free Kids, here.

    Dr. Colberg is not only an academic specializing in exercise. Equally relevant credentials are the diabetes that she has lived with most of her life and her own exercise regimen.

    When is the best time to exercise? I was fascinated with her report of a study showing that blood glucose levels of some men with diabetes who had moderate control dropped dramatically when they exercised two hours after eating breakfast. When they exercised before breakfast, their levels hardly dropped at all. These finding are based on “Prior meal enhances the plasma glucose lowering effect of exercise in type 2 diabetes” by Paul Poirier and his associates at Quebec’s Laval University. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise published this report in its August 2001 issue.

    Even if dieting is a mistake, a good diet certainly isn’t. Dr. Colberg in fact devotes as much of this excellent book to a healthy diet as she does to healthy exercise.

    Sheri R. Colberg’s 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan is a 262-page trade paperback listed at $15.95. Marlowe & Company in New York will publish it on January 10, 2006. The ISBN is 1-56924-331-X.

Joslin

Joslin Guide

  • Joslin Guide

    The oldest and most prestigious diabetes clinic is the first in the United States to endorse the concept of the glycemic index and glycemic load.

    Last year the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston published its diet and exercise guidelines for overweight people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. This “Clinical Nutrition Guideline For Overweight and Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes or at High Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes” seems to be to be the soundest and most up-to-date of any such recommendations.

    Dr. Colberg’s 7 Step book, which I reviewed above, brought this breakthrough in American acceptance of the glycemic index to my attention. And now the Joslin clinic has come out with the second edition of its Joslin Guide to Diabetes, which also endorses the glycemic index.

    The Joslin Guide has its roots in Joslin clinic founder Dr. Elliott P. Joslin’s Diabetes Manual. The first of 12 editions appeared between 1918 and the 1970s, when it evolved into the Joslin Guide.

    This is a first-rate reference book, but not something that you will want to read straight through. It’s so packed full of information that it’s not a book that you can read for pleasure.

    By Richard S. Beaser, M.D., and Amy P. Campbell, The Joslin Guide to Diabetes is a 431-page trade paperback listed at $16.95. It is a Fireside Book published by Simon & Schuster on November 1. The ISBN is # 0-7432-5784-7.

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I now send out Diabetes Update once a month. Previous issues are online:

  1. Diabetes Update Number 1: Diabetes Genes of December 10, 2000
  2. Diabetes Update Number 2: DiabetesWATCH of December 18, 2000
  3. Diabetes Update Number 3: Starlix of January 3, 2001
  4. Diabetes Update Number 4: Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tepary Beans of January 17, 2001
  5. Diabetes Update Number 5: Insulin Makes You Fat of January 31, 2001
  6. Diabetes Update Number 6: Available and Unavailable Carbohydrates of February 15, 2001
  7. Diabetes Update Number 7: Dates of March 1, 2001
  8. Diabetes Update Number 8: Quackwatch of March 15, 2001
  9. Diabetes Update Number 9: The Cost of Insulin of March 30, 2001
  10. Diabetes Update Number 10: Sof-Tact Meter of April 2, 2001
  11. Diabetes Update Number 11: iControlDiabetes of April 16, 2001
  12. Diabetes Update Number 12: Cinnamon, Tagatose of May 2, 2001
  13. Diabetes Update Number 13: Glycemic Index of May 15, 2001
  14. Diabetes Update Number 14: Eat Your Carrots! of May 31, 2001
  15. Diabetes Update Number 15: Glycemic Load of June 21, 2001
  16. Diabetes Update Number 16: Homocysteine of July 2, 2001
  17. Diabetes Update Number 17: Chana Dal Tips of July 15, 2001
  18. Diabetes Update Number 18: Lag Time in AlternativeLand of August 2, 2001
  19. Diabetes Update Number 19: Fiber of August 15, 2001
  20. Diabetes Update Number 20: How Diabetes Works of August 30, 2001
  21. Diabetes Update Number 21: Insulin Resistance of September 14, 2001
  22. Diabetes Update Number 22: Trans Fats, Honey, CU of October 1, 2001
  23. Diabetes Update Number 23: Pedometer Power of October 15, 2001
  24. Diabetes Update Number 24: Is Glycerin a Carbohydrate? of October 31, 2001
  25. Diabetes Update Number 25: Kill the Meter to Save It of November 15, 2001
  26. Diabetes Update Number 26: Protein, Fat, and the GI of December 1, 2001
  27. Diabetes Update Number 27: Insulin Index of December 14, 2001
  28. Diabetes Update Number 28: Fructose of January 4, 2002
  29. Diabetes Update Number 29: Aspirin of January 14, 2002
  30. Diabetes Update Number 30: Stevia of January 31, 2002
  31. Diabetes Update Number 31: Gretchen Becker’s Book of February 19, 2002
  32. Diabetes Update Number 32: The UKPDS of March 4, 2002
  33. Diabetes Update Number 33: Financial Aid of March 18, 2002
  34. Diabetes Update Number 34: Pre-Diabetes of April 1, 2002
  35. Diabetes Update Number 35: More Glycemic Indexes of April 15, 2002
  36. Diabetes Update Number 36: Gila Monsters of April 30, 2002
  37. Diabetes Update Number 37: Is INGAP a Cure? of May 15, 2002
  38. Diabetes Update Number 38: Native American Diabetes of June 3, 2002
  39. Diabetes Update Number 39: FDA Diabetes of June 19, 2002
  40. Diabetes Update Number 40: Diabetes Support Groups of July 1, 2002
  41. Diabetes Update Number 41: New GI and GL Table of July 15, 2002
  42. Diabetes Update Number 42: Diabetes Sight of August 1, 2002
  43. Diabetes Update Number 43: DrugDigest of August 18, 2002
  44. Diabetes Update Number 44: Hanuman Garden of September 3, 2002
  45. Diabetes Update Number 45: Guidelines of September 16, 2002
  46. Diabetes Update Number 46: Trans Fat of October 4, 2002
  47. Diabetes Update Number 47: Nutrition.Gov of October 16, 2002
  48. Diabetes Update Number 48: Our Hearts of October 31, 2002
  49. Diabetes Update Number 49: Our Kidneys of November 15, 2002
  50. Diabetes Update Number 50: A1C<7 of December 2, 2002
  51. Diabetes Update Number 51: Diabetes Searches with Google of December 16, 2002
  52. Diabetes Update Number 52: e-Patients of January 2, 2003
  53. Diabetes Update Number 53: Email News of January 16, 2003
  54. Diabetes Update Number 54: Third Generation Meters of January 31, 2003
  55. Diabetes Update Number 55: Hypoglycemic Supplies of February 14, 2003
  56. Diabetes Update Number 56: Food Police of March 1, 2003
  57. Diabetes Update Number 57: Vitamins of April 1, 2003
  58. Diabetes Update Number 58: Lancets of May 1, 2003
  59. Diabetes Update Number 59: Accurate Meters of June 1, 2003
  60. Diabetes Update Number 60: Chromium of July 1, 2003
  61. Diabetes Update Number 61: Traveling of August 1, 2003
  62. Diabetes Update Number 62: My Book of September 1, 2003
  63. Diabetes Update Number 63: Hot Tubs of October 1, 2003
  64. Diabetes Update Number 64: Home A1C Testing of November 1, 2003
  65. Diabetes Update Number 65: Detemir of December 1, 2003
  66. Diabetes Update Number 66: Erectile Dysfunction of January 1, 2004
  67. Diabetes Update Number 67: Acidic Foods of February 1, 2004
  68. Diabetes Update Number 68: Net Carbs of March 1, 2004
  69. Diabetes Update Number 69: Glycemic Index of April 1, 2004
  70. Diabetes Update Number 70: Dreamfields Pasta of May 1, 2004
  71. Diabetes Update Number 71: Cholesterol of June 1, 2004
  72. Diabetes Update Number 72: Meter News of July 1, 2004
  73. Diabetes Update Number 73: Pill Splitting of August 1, 2004
  74. Diabetes Update Number 74: GlucoMON of September 1, 2004
  75. Diabetes Update Number 75: Coding of October 1, 2004
  76. Diabetes Update Number 76: Sleep Apnea of November 1, 2004
  77. Diabetes Update Number 77: Keynote Address of December 1, 2004
  78. Diabetes Update Number 78: Mangosteen of January 1, 2005
  79. Diabetes Update Number 79: Noninvasive Dream of February 1, 2005
  80. Diabetes Update Number 80: Pelikan Sun of March 1, 2005
  81. Diabetes Update Number 81: Medtronic Monitors of April 1, 2005
  82. Diabetes Update Number 82: ExtendBars of May 1, 2005
  83. Diabetes Update Number 83: GlycoMark of June 1, 2005
  84. Diabetes Update Number 84: My British Book of July 1, 2005
  85. Diabetes Update Number 85: Disintegrating of August 1, 2005
  86. Diabetes Update Number 86: Meter Research of September 1, 2005
  87. Diabetes Update Number 87: Evaluating Meters of October 1, 2005
  88. Diabetes Update Number 88: When to Test of November 1, 2005
  89. Diabetes Update Number 89: Blogging of December 1, 2005

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