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Geriatric Medicine: Graceful Aging (Transcript 4 of 4)

Carbohydrates Can Kill, a book by Robert K. Su, MD

Welcome back to the “Carbohydrates Can Kill” show. I am Robert Su, M.D. Let’s continue my presentation, entitled, “Geriatric medicine: Graceful Aging.” [1] For instance, the readings of four individuals’ fasting and two-hour postprandial blood glucose are within normal limits. However, the excursion of each individual’s blood glucose between the time points at fasting and…

Geriatric Medicine: Graceful Aging (Transcript 3 0f 4)

Carbohydrates Can Kill, a book by Robert K. Su, MD

Welcome back to the “Carbohydrates Can Kill” show. I am Robert Su, M.D. Let’s continue my presentation, entitled, “Geriatric medicine: Graceful Aging.” [1] Of course, cancer is one of the most serious diseases, and takes its victim’s life away untimely. Cancer happens in various organs. In a series of articles that I published on my…

Geriatric Medicine: Graceful Aging (Transcript 2 of 4)

Carbohydrates Can Kill, a book by Robert K. Su, MD

Welcome back to the “Carbohydrates Can Kill” show. I am Robert Su, M.D. Let’s continue my presentation, entitled, “Geriatric medicine: Graceful Aging.” [1] As I cite in my book, Carbohydrates Can Kill, and my writings, besides its roles of being inflammatory, pro-inflammatory, and pro-thrombotic or pro-clotting, hyperglycemia is also pro-hypertensive or vasoconstrictive, arteriosclerotic and atherosclerotic,…

It is the time to revisit dietary therapy for diabetes mellitus.

Below is a comment [*] published in the BoMed Central, Cardiovascular Diabetology, on the article, “Therapies for type 2 diabetes: lowering HbA1c and associated cardiovascular risk factors.” Congratulations to Kurukulasuriya LR & Sowers JR of University of Missouri on their excellent analysis, “Therapies for type 2 diabetes: lowering HbA1c and associated cardiovascular risk factors”, to…

An Overview of Dieting for Health: The Principles

Witnessing the rising trends in obesity and diseases of both the US and global populations, epidemiological studies have found a significant relationship between the changes in the diet of the populations and the deterioration in their health during the past 50 to 60 years. Consequently, changing the individual’s dietary style is the top priority for…