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CAPPUCCINO PIE

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup room temperature coffee
• 1 envelope (1/4 ounce) unflavored gelatin
• 1/4 cup coffee liqueur
• 1 cup nonfat or light ricotta cheese
• Sugar substitute equal to 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups nonfat or light whipped topping
• 1 Chocolate-Almond Piecrust (click for recipe)
• 1-1/2 tablespoons shaved dark chocolate

Directions

1. Place 2 tablespoons of the coffee in a blender. Sprinkle the gelatin over the coffee and let sit for 2 minutes.
2. Bring the remaining coffee to a boil and pour over the mixture in the blender. Blend for 1 minute, until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Set aside for 5 minutes to cool slightly.
3. Add the liqueur to the blender mixture and blend to mix. Add the ricotta, sugar substitute, and cinnamon and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a large bowl and refrigerate for about 30 minutes, or until the consistency of pudding. Whisk until smooth and then fold in the whipped topping.
4. Spread the ricotta mixture into the piecrust, swirling the top.
5. Sprinkle the chocolate over the top.
6. Cover and chill for at least 3 hours, or until set.

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Research by scientists in the United States and Japan has found that diabetic nerve pain and degeneration starts because of a fusion between bone marrow and nerve cells that can lead to nerve death and dysfunction.

The study showed that too much blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes could mean bone marrow cells to start moving next to nerve and other tissue cells and fusing into them. As bone marrow cells fuse into nerve cells and cells of the nervous system, it results in the cells dying off early and malfunctioning.

The activation of a specific enzyme is known to be a major determinant for the development of diabetic neuropathy, and the team examined bone marrow from normal mice that were susceptible to diabetic neuropathy and transplanted it into mice resistant to the neuropathy, finding that the transplanted marrow made the mice susceptible to the diabetic neuropathy.

However, when they transplanted marrow from mice that were not susceptible to diabetic neuropathy was transplanted into those that were susceptible, the mice that got the transplant were seen to be protected from the problem.

Researcher Lawrence Chan commented on the study, which was published in the FASEB Journal, “Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common and most devastating complications of diabetes.”

He added “These experiments show the relationship between neuropathy and bone marrow cells in this disease, demonstrating that uncontrolled diabetes is, indeed, bad to the bone.”

SOURCE: http://www.diabetes.co.uk