Science News Says Drinking Milk at Breakfast Lowers Blood Glucose

Science News reports that drinking milk or eating milk with your cereal for breakfast reduces your blood glucose levels throughout the day. This is good news for people with Type II diabetes or people with pre-diabetic blood sugar levels.

I have whole milk now instead of low-fat milk with my cereal on weekdays because my father died recently of Parkinson's disease at age 93. So I started researching Parkinson's. Studies show that people who drink low-fat milk three times a day have a significantly increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease because excess levels of calcium in brain cells may lead to the formation of toxic clusters that are the hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Drinking five or six six-ounce cups of coffee per day is considered protective against Parkinson's. It's sad that my father gave up coffee in the hopes that it would help him. Coffee has powerful anti-oxidants. Maybe he gave up coffee because of the five strokes he had. One of his strokes was such a humdinger he gave up drinking for good.

Weirdly, Exenatide, a drug for Type II diabetes has been shown to be promising in treating Parkinson's disease.

I wish scientists the best in finding more treatments and better yet, cures, for the debilitating diseases that cause so much misery and death. I will follow their research with interest and contribute where I can. I remember when my beloved kitty Georgie was dying of feline leukemia, and I called Sloan-Kettering on a weekend. A veterinarian researcher answered the phone and comforted me. He said they'd have a feline leukemia vaccine available in five years.

Sure enough, they did. Although Georgie died, I've gotten feline leukemia shots for my other beloved cats ever since. It's a highly contagious virus in cats.