Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes
March 1st, 2010 by Kim Bucknole
Drug therapy deferred
Mediterranean Vegetables and infused Olive Oil
Readers with newly diagnosed Type II diabetes, pre-diabetes or insulin resistance syndrome, may find interesting reading in the Annals of Internal Medicine, September 2009 151:306-314.
The relevant article is entitled, “Effects of a Mediterranean -style diet on the need for antihyperglycemic drug therapy in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial” and discusses the results of a 4 year study conducted by Katherine Esposito, MD, PhD and colleagues at the Second University of Naples, Italy. Continue reading ‘Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes’