The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic plays Serve, Taste or Trash! Food Game at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.
The Apollo Theater is a national icon with a legacy that resonates across generations, ethnic groups and continents. Since opening its doors in 1914 and introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a major role in the emergence of innovative musical genres including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel blues and soul. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill and countless others began their road to stardom in the Apollo stage.
Mr. Divabetic talks to Billy Mitchell, the resident historian and official tour guide for the Apollo Theater about some of the little known facts about the theater and the legendary people who performed there.
The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic visited SUNY Downstate Medical Center to play his food game, Serve Taste or Trash! Game with healthcare providers, staff members, medical students and patients. SUNY Downstate Medical Center is one of the nation’s leading urban medical centers, serving the people of Brooklyn since 1860.
Mr. Divabetic’s Serve, Taste or Trash! Game aims to encourage kids of all ages to become more open-minded eaters. Each game features three different food and/or beverage choices. To play you must decide which choice you’d serve, which choice you’d taste and which one you’d trash.
How many calories are your drinking? Today’s Serve, Taste or Trash! Game challenge features Coca Cola, Poland Springs Water and Brooklyn Summer Ale. Mr. Divabetic with special guest divabetic, Lorraine Brooks tested each player’s ‘Beverage IQ’ with questions ranging from how alcohol affects your blood sugars to the number of cans of soda a day it takes to elevate your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In addition, Downstate Medical healthcare providers and staff members offered their suggestions on how to increase your daily water intake.
Did you know? A new study indicates that drinking one or more cans of soda a day can increase one’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. One in five were at elevated risk of diabetes with as little as one can per day according to statistics published in the journal Diabetologia.
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The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic traveled to Harlem, New York to raise awareness of the new the journal Diabetologia’s findings that drinking just one can of sugary soda a day increases the risk of developing diabetes.
The findings agree with earlier studies in the United States, which found daily soda consumption increased the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 25 percent.
Residents of East and Central Harlem are more likely to drink sugary drinks, and to drink 4 or more sugary drinks daily, than are residents in other New York City neighborhoods according to the New York City Health Department’s annual Community Health Survey.
Mr. Divabetic’s new Serve, Taste or Trash! Food Game (coming soon on YouTube) features three popular sugar sweetened beverages near the Apollo Theater to help everyday people better understand of the relationship between consumption of sugary drinks and diabetes.
Mr. Divabetic and Billy Mitchell
The Apollo Theater is a national icon with a legacy that resonates across generations, ethnic groups and continents. Since opening its doors in 1914 and introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a major role in the emergence of innovative musical genres including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues and soul. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill and countless others began their road to stardom in the Apollo stage.
Mr. Divabetic talked to Billy Mitchell, the Apollo Ambassador and Tour Director about some of the little known facts about the theater and the legendary people who performed there.
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Drinking just one 12-ounce soda a day may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
A new study is published today (April 24) in the journal Diabetologia reports people who drank a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened soda daily were 18 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes over a 16-year period compared with those who did not consume soda. And people who drank two sodas daily were 18 percent more likely to have a stroke than those who drank one; those who drank three sodas daily saw the same risk increase compared with those who drank two, and so on.
The results held even after the researchers took into account risk factors for Type 2 diabetes such as age and physical activity levels, body mass index (BMI) and the total daily calorie intake.
The findings agree with earlier studies in the United States, which found daily soda consumption increased the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 25 percent.
Black breast cancer patients are more likely to diet han white patients, regardless of the type of cancer, according to a new study.
This suggests that the lower survival rate among black patients is not solely because they are more often diagnosed with less treatable types of breast cancer, the researchers said.
The researchers found that black patients were less likely than white patients to be diagnosed with either the luminal A or luminal B breast cancer subtypes.
“African-Americans were more likely to have the hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer subtype and had a lower likelihood of having the luminal A subtype, which tends to be the most treatable subtype of breast cancer and has the best prognosis,” study author Candyce Kroenke, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente, said in an association news release.
Kroenke and her colleagues found, however, that lower survival among black patients was consistent across breast cancer subtypes. Black patients were 2.3 times more likely to die from the luminal A breast cancer subtype compared with white patients, 2.6 times more likely to die from the luminal B subtype, 1.3 times more likely to die from the basal-like subtype and 2.4 times more likely to die from the HER2-enriched subtype.
“African-Americans with breast cancer appeared to have a poorer prognosis regardless of subtype,” Kroenke said. “It seems from our data that the black/white breast cancer survival difference cannot be explained entirely by variable breast cancer subtype diagnosis.”
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Serve, Taste or Trash! Food Game at Easter Parade in New York, NY
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Did you know that the cooking methods you use to prepare even good-for-you foods can put your diabetes health at risk?
A University of Illinois study found evidence that cooking methods using high temperatures, like grilling, frying, and broiling, are particularly risky because they produce “advanced glycation end products,” or AGEs, harmful compounds that may play a role in the development of diabetes-related complications.
Advanced glycation end products are sugar-derived substances produced naturally in small amounts by your body. They began forming when you were in the womb and continue accumulating as you age. When you have diabetes, you produce higher concentrations of AGEs because of the increased levels of glucose in your system.
AGEs are also produced in foods, especially those that are exposed to heat. Foods cooked at high temperatures are more likely to produce a higher amount of AGEs – and you can taste the results. These compounds are responsible for giving steaks their enticing charred grill marks and brownies their irresistibly crispy edges. Foods that are pasteurized or sterilized at high heat can also form AGEs. Animal-based foods that have high fat and protein are typically AGE-rich to begin with and more likely to form additional AGEs when cooked at high temperatures. On the other hand, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and milk have relatively few AGEs, even when cooked. Written by Mikel Theobald and Medically reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD
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Alcohol-related cancer may seem like something that would affect only heavy drinkers, but according to a new study, having even one drink per day can put you at risk for cancer.
How do you think the cast of ‘Cougartown’ would react to this news? On the show, Courtney Cox’s character, Jules and her friends are always drinking at least one drink or more.
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that alcohol-related cancer accounted for 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States in 2009 — and even light and moderate drinkers were at significant risk.
The link between cancer and alcohol consumption has been established by previous studies, but this new study quantifies the risk, death rates, and years of life lost in a way previously unseen.
Approximately 560,000 people died from cancer in 2009, the year for which the researchers analyzed alcohol-related cancer death rates. Of those deaths, nearly 20,000 were caused by alcohol-linked cancers, according to the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health.
“People talk about how to prevent cancer, and about avoiding tobacco and eating better, but this an issue that we think has been missed,” says David Nelson MD, study author and Director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute. “20,000 deaths is a large number.” Each of those deaths accounted for approximately 18 years of potential life lost, the researchers report.
Alcohol-related cancer affected men and women equally in 2009, but with different cancers. While women with alcohol-related cancer were most likely to die from breast cancer, men were most likely to have died from oral, pharynx, larynx and esophageal cancer,
While researchers are not exactly sure how alcohol may lead to cancer, it is clear that poor health habits – not just drinking – play a major role in cancer risk. Dr. Nelson says that people who drink a lot often also have a poor diet and/or smoke, which, coupled with alcohol use, puts them at a greater risk for developing cancer.But Nelson thinks the purported benefits of alcohol consumption are overrated when compared to the risks. “Even if you took into account all the potential benefits of alcohol,” he says, “it causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents worldwide.”
However, notes Jernigan, most people don’t want to hear that going to the bar after work could be setting you up for cancer down the line.
“The message that alcohol could be good for you resonates so much more pleasantly than the message that alcohol can kill you,” he says. “We are deeply ambivalent about alcohol because we want to enjoy it and not think about its health effects.”
The most important thing, Nelson believes, is to make people understand that alcohol is a carcinogen. While it may be impossible to get people to stop drinking, making them aware of the dangers can help them make smarter decisions.
“We spend a lot of time talking about potential cancer-causing agents, but alcohol is missing from the discussion,” he says. “If people really want to reduce their cancer risk, one of the things they can do is avoid alcohol.”
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People who eat a lot of low-fiber and processed foods that quickly spike blood sugars may, not surprisingly, have a significantly higher risk of the most common form of diabetes, according to a new study.
“By raising blood sugar and demanding that the pancreas keep pumping more insulin, meal after meal, day after day, a high-glycemic diet can put people at risk over the edge,” said Dr. David Ludwig, who studies obesity at Boston Children’s Hospital but was not involved in the work.
Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the new report from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Oxford University in the UK and others found that the 125,000 studied adults daily ate an average of 139 grams of sugar or its equivalent.
It’s important for the general public to better understand what high-glycemic and low-glycemic mean, researchers said, and how to figure out their glucose intake. A very ripe banana, for example, has far more grams of sugar than one that’s still green. Eaten raw, rather than cooked, sweet potatoes have a low glycemic index.
There’s a “jungle of information and misinformation out there,” clinical dietician Kari Kooi of Methodist Hospital in Houston told Reuters Health.
“For instance, fiber (in prepackaged energy) bars is not the same thing as natural fiber you get in fruits and vegetables,” said Kooi, who was not involved in the current study. “That’s deceptive to consumers, who also may not realize that just having fiber…doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing as being low-glycemic.”
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Let’s Talk About Sex! Here’s a sneak peak of Divabetic’s upcoming ‘Love On A Two Way Street’ free outreach program focused on ‘Sexual Health & Diabetes’ and presented at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on Sat., Feb, 9, 2013
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‘Eye-opening’ is the only I way I can describe my reaction to finding out how much sugar there is in the least likely places – like Hunt’s Ketchup! One thing’s for certain, sugar is one of those ingredients that shows up where you least expect it like ketchup. (See more foods on my ‘I Spy Sugar’ series on Pinterest)
Especially when you think that President Ronald Reagan actually wanted us to believe that ketchup is a vegetable! I’m referring to the proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) regulations, early in the presidency of Ronald Reagan, that intended to provide more flexibility in meal planning to local school lunch administrators. While ketchup was not mentioned in the original regulations, pickle relish was used as an example of an item that could count as a vegetable. (I promise to check the sugar content in pickle relish next week.)
Food manufacturers like to say that they add sugar to ketchup to even out the acidic taste. But the 58 teaspoons found in a 35 oz. bottle of Hunt’s Ketchup seems a bit excessive to me. Ketchup may be the condiment of choice for a million fast-food outlets and a staple sauce in homes around the world, but there’s more to it than meets the eye.
The excessive amount of sugar hidden in a bottle of Ketchup just might be one of the reasons you’re having trouble managing your weight or blood sugars.
Before a ‘Divabetic’ buys items that contain ketchup (like barbeque sauce or pork and beans) they should look at the nutrition label to see how high the sugar content is. Also check other tomato based products like spaghetti sauce.
Watch News Yorkers choose between a Yoplait yogurt, Nature Valley granola bar and 7-11 Beef and Cheese combo pack on Serve, Taste or Trash! Food Game. You might be surprised by the results.
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Diabetes & Exercise? New York women living with diabetes share their experiences dealing with blood sugars, marathons and motivation
’Movie Girl Workouts’ with Mr. Divabetic and fitness expert, Katherine Adamenko show how you can turn your favorite movie into a fun, exercise routine.
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