Low-Dose Guar Improves Diabetic Control

Ileal interposition improves glucose tolerance in low dose streptozotocin-treated diabetic and euglycemic rats.

BACKGROUND The surgical treatment for obesity promotes massive weight loss and early improvement in co-morbid conditions such as type-2 diabetes. Because surgically mediated glycemic improvements are immediate, the mechanisms involved appear to be weight loss independent. Ileal interposition has been used to gain understanding of the relative role that the lower intestine plays in mediating met...

Guar crispbread in the diabetic diet.

Nine diabetic patients who were receiving various treatments supplemented their normal home diets (two patients) or metabolic ward diets (seven patients) with guar crispbread for five days. Their mean urinary glucose excretion fell significantly by 38% during the last two days. A significant fall in fasting blood glucose concentration of 1.1 +/- 0.4 mmol/1 (19.8 +/- 7.2 mg/100 ml) was seen only...

Low Dose Insulin Regimen for Diabetic Coma

Introduction Low dosage insulin regimens for diabetic "comas" have recently attracted considerable attention (Alberti, Hockaday and Turner, 1973; Page et al, 1974; Kidson et al, 1974; Semple, White and Manderson, 1974). These regimans have all originated from established diabetic centres, however the simplicity of these regimens, especially the intra muscular regimen (Alberti et al, 1973), woul...

Guar and Guar Derivatives

Low-dose estrogen supplementation improves vascular function in hypogonadal men.

It is widely accepted that in women, estrogens provide protection against the development of cardiovascular disease. However, the cardiovascular role of estrogens in men remains uncertain, despite preliminary evidence that endogenous estrogens produced by aromatization of androgenic precursors are of physiological importance. Hypogonadal men have very low levels of circulating estrogen. We stud...