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Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.
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By Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times
Is Type 2 diabetes reversible?
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed in some people, at least temporarily, but it may take extreme measures.
Lifestyle changes like weight loss and exercise are most likely to have an effect early in the course of the disease, shortly after a patient moves from prediabetes to diabetes and is still producing some insulin. At that point, “if you can reduce your body’s requirements for insulin by losing weight, you may be able to go back to the prediabetes phase,” said Dr. Judith Fradkin, director of the division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times
Calcium, eaten in foods or taken as supplements, has little or no effect on bone density or the risk of fracture in people over 50, according to two large reviews of studies in BMJ.
One analysis reviewed 59 randomized controlled trials of the effect of dietary and supplemental calcium on bone density. Together, the trials included 13,790 men and women over 50. The data showed that more calcium in the diet or taken as supplements increased bone density about 1 percent to 2 percent – too little to have any effect on fractures.
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