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Well at least now I have an excuse.
Seriously, my grandmother died from diabetes, so this is important news for me.
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Not having read the article, is it a glass a day or just drinking it in general? I wonder if a wine cooler will work? Then again I rarely drink any more and I didn't drink that much before I got sick. These days I usually just have a wine cooler once in a blue moon. *sigh* I guess I should read that article, not that I have anything to worry about. No one in my imediate family has had diabetes. Just my very exented/distant family.
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Beer fights heart disease: officialMore good news for those of you who like a swift pint or two: beer doesn't just fight cancer and make you clever but also blocks "interferon-gamma-induced chemical processes".
This is a good thing, trust us, because what the Innsbruck Medical University team behind this revelation has shown - in layman's terms - is that beer offers a resultant anti-inflammatory effect which may have a "beneficial impact on coronary heart diseases".
More specifically, in vitro tests on peripheral mononuclear blood cells demonstrated that beer extracts blocked the effects of said interferon-gamma - "one of the most important messengers in inflammatory response and mainly produced as part of the cellular immune response".
To cut right to the chase: "Beer extracts inhibit, among other things, the production of neopterin and the degradation of tryptophan by suppressing T-cell response."
The team notes that "this suppression might be connected with the calming effect of beer since its normalising effect on the tryptophan balance improves the availability of the 'happiness hormone' serotonin".
Agreeably, the alcohol content of the beer is irrelevant, although lead boffin Professor Dietmar Fuchs inevitably cautioned that the potentially beneficial effects discovered "must of course be weighed against the negative effects and dangers of drinking alcohol".
Fuchs added: "The effects could indeed be observed on extracts of alcohol-free beers. Our findings must, therefore, not be understood as an encouragement to drink alcohol."
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The anti-inflamatory response comes at a high cost. Reduced interferon and t-cell suppression. In other words reduced immune response to pathogens invading your body or cancerous cell growth.
So what'll ya have gents? Improved inflammatory heart disease or the stronger immune response? 10 bits either way!
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Cocktail of drugs offers hope for reversing diabetesDoctors have developed a cocktail of two drugs which can reverse diabetes.
Scientists described the discovery yesterday as "an important step towards a potential cure". It could mean an end to the daily insulin injections and rigid dietary restrictions suffered by millions worldwide.
The drugs cocktail has so far only been tested on animals but each of its constituents is already being tested individually in human clinical trials. The treatment is for Type 1 diabetes, which usually starts in childhood. It occurs when the immune system turns on itself and attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.
The cocktail, developed by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego, California, combines a monoclonal antibody which calms the immune system with a peptide that acts like a vaccine to protect the insulin-producing cells.
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Associated PressHere's good and bad news for chocoholics: Dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure - but it works only if the amount is less than two Hershey's Kisses, a new study suggests.
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