Do you have a casual attitude toward sugar? When you indulge in a piece of cake or a soft drink, do you just think “I’ll work it off later”? Do you feel that the extent of sugar’s effect on your body is that it “adds a few extra pounds”? Well, processed sugar has more far-reaching effects on your health than...Continue Reading
Do you have a sweet tooth? If you find yourself with your hand in a cookie jar or opening your fifth pack of candy for the day, you are probably plagued with sugar addiction. But fear not, you are most certainly not alone. Even if you’re not into sweet treats themselves, don’t forget the other not-so-obvious sources of sugar, such...Continue Reading
When you go to your local coffee shop and get your regular drink order, how is it sweetened? Is it with artificial sweetener, natural sweetener, or regular sugar? Have you been told that a sweetener is a healthier, lower-calorie choice? That may be true … but it may not be. Let’s discuss 4 different types of sweeteners and how they...Continue Reading
There are so many ways to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Practicing the right lifestyle habits, eating right, and taking supplements can put your blood sugar levels into the healthy “normal” range. That’s right! You have a lot of power over your blood sugar levels! After all, you don’t want high blood sugar levels, do you? Of course you don’t!...Continue Reading
If you’re making pizza, pasta or other treats, wheat is not the only flour you can use. Considering that many people have wheat intolerances and allergies, it is good news that there are many unexpected plant foods that can be turned into flours. Some of these foods might be surprising - you may have never thought they could be turned...Continue Reading
You better believe that high blood sugar is bad. It causes a lot of damage to your body, contributes to nearly every degenerative disease, and accelerates aging. That’s why it's so important to balance your blood sugar and keep it at lower, healthier levels. Besides the long-term effects, if you do indeed suffer from high blood sugar, you’ll probably notice...Continue Reading
High blood sugar can kill!! Chronic high blood sugar and diabetes is responsible for much of the ill health in western countries. If you have diabetes or chronic high blood sugar levels, you’ll be at a higher risk of developing the following health problems: Cardiovascular disease Kidney failure Blindness Obesity Accelerated aging Accelerated organ damage In short, high blood sugar...Continue Reading
Type II diabetes is caused by the chronic elevation of glucose and insulin in your body. When your blood sugar is too high, your body produces a lot of insulin in order to remove the sugar from your blood and put it into your cells for usage. Unfortunately, you become numb to the effects of insulin because your cells are...Continue Reading
If you are reading this then you know processed sugar is really bad for you! Naturally-occurring sugars in fruits, veggies, and whole grains are packaged with lots of good nutrients and don’t tend to spike your blood sugar. But the pure sugar that manufacturers add to food is too much for your body to handle. Sugar destroys your health in...Continue Reading
Your cells rely on glucose to power them. We need some sugar in our blood to function normally. But that’s not an excuse for going to grab a candy bar! The sugar your body uses should come from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. It is true that your body can also generate its own sugar, if necessary, from non-sugar nutrients...Continue Reading
Diabetes indicates the inability of the cells of our body to absorb and utilize glucose. There are two types of diabetes - type I and type II. Both types involve the malfunction of the hormone insulin, which clears glucose from the blood and transfers it into cells for use. Diabetes is very harmful to one’s health, as it damages not...Continue Reading
Carbs have the greatest influence in keeping our body in motion as it serves as our fuel to go through our day. For someone who is diabetic, one of the things that they need to watch out is their carbohydrates intake. They have a very delicate metabolism that they need to eat a specific amount of food to maintain their optimum...Continue Reading
Diabetes is a lifestyle disease. According to WHO, The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 20141. This can be treated and its consequences avoided or delayed with diet, physical activity, medication and regular screening and treatment for complications1. Let us focus on the diet part of managing diabetes. Maintaining a healthy...Continue Reading
Eating the right food makes a difference especially if you already have a lifestyle disease like Diabetes. Here are the top 20 power foods you need to be eating when you have diabetes. Asparagus Blueberries Grapefruit Beans Broccoli Carrot Fish (Tuna, Salmon) Flaxseed Cranberries Apple Melon Nuts (Walnuts, Almonds, Pistachios) Oatmeal Red Onion Raspberries Spinach Soy Tea Tomato Yogurt Exclusive...Continue Reading
