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Your bones might help you beat diabetes

SHERYL UBELACKER

Canadian Press

Latest comment posted at 12:58 PM EDT 14/08/07

Researchers say the skeleton appears to secrete a hormone that helps regulate sugar and fat ...Read the full article

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  1. F M from Toronto, Canada writes: Maybe that's why exercise is helpful in controlling diabetese, it stimulates the skeletal system to excrete the hormone; better than using drugs!! Time will tell.
  2. J. Cobb from St. Albert AB, Canada writes: Sign me up! Seriously, sign me up!
  3. Jorly fuster from Canada writes: And don't forget to drink lots and lots of milk as that is the only known source of calcium known to man that won't kill you or change your gender.
  4. globefan EH from Canada writes: FM from Toronto, that's an interesting point, when the medical community catches up with you, I think you may well be right.

    I still remember the medical community telling women we had to take HRT. I always wondered how other women had managed without them throughout the centuries, thank goodness.
  5. X. T. from Waterloo, Canada writes: Bones? But how can I eat my own bones? I see my son is chewing his finger, maybe that's a good sign.
  6. George Hall from Canada writes: Yes blood cells are produced in the bone marrow ...that is why when I tyeach tai chi to those with diabetes I talk about bpushing from the bottom of the foot or pulling from the tips of the fingers.....it not only bulids bone mass but also stimulates circulation and the creation of new blood cells...just the tip of the ice berg overall.
  7. John McMortimer-Boyles from An Undisclosed Underground Location Safe From Nuclear Attack, Canada writes: An interesting development.

    Hopefully that doesn't mean the truly spineless produce less osteocalcin and are thus at a greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
  8. Brian Lilly from Moncton, NB, writes: It is no wonder that in my daily medications, (I am a type 2 diabetic) that I am prescribed 3 x 500 mg. calcium, 2 x 25 mg. vitamin D to help the body absorb the calcium, and finally, 3 x 250 ml. of skim milk. The exercise I get from golf and walking does not hurt either. I hope that the hormones from milk do indeed help the bones, and further inhibit Type 2 diabetes.
  9. lary waldman from Qualicum Beach BC, Canada writes: It took me five years to get a grip on my type II. I was in denial, I guess. Now I am doing the work, and it is paying off, but it is a lot of work, exercise, testing three times a day, watching what I eat, taking the meds, it ads up to, well a headache and long term worry. I don't have any reason to believe or dis-believe this, but I sure hope it turns out to be a simpler and more effective form of treatment.

    lw
  10. Jay Wortman MD from Vancouver, Canada writes: Lary Waldman, there IS a much simpler and more effective treatment. Diabetes is a metabolic intolerance of carbohydrate foods. If you treat it the way we treat all other dietay intolerances by eliminating the offending food, it gets better, just like other food intolerance syndromes. If you try it you will have to get off your meds for blood pressure and blood sugar quickly or you will feel ill.
    I recommend "Atkins Diabetes Revolution" by Vernon and Eberstein.
    Or have a look at Dr. Richard Bernstein's website: http://www.diabetes-normalsugars.com/
  11. B H from Toronto, Canada writes: "And don't forget to drink lots and lots of milk as that is the only known source of calcium known to man that won't kill you or change your gender." I happen to be a huge milk drinker and milk lover myself, but what you're suggesting is simply false. Most of the world is lactose intolerant and most of the world has always gotten its calcium primarily from high-calcium vegetable sources (kale, brocolli, bok choy, collards, swiss chard, seaweed, beans, etc).

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