Category Archives: Diabetes
If you’ve always believed vegetable oils were good for you, you’re not alone. First, they’ve got the word vegetable right in there, so you’re kind of tricked into thinking these oils are healthy. Then there was all the advertising that hypnotized us into believing traditional fats like butter, lard and coconut oil were bad while canola, corn, cottonseed, and soybean…
I happen to be crazy about nuts. (I was going to say I’m a nut for nuts but I knew you’d probably roll your eyes at that one.) The taste alone makes me stock up on a variety so I always have some handy. But when I started learning about the health benefit of nuts, especially tree nuts, I became…
Here’s a pop quiz: What is eaten by almost everyone, yet understood by few in the health community? They are somewhat detrimental to many people’s health while being downright destructive to a few sensitive souls. If you said lectins you’re either brighter than the average lightbulb or, after reading the title, you put two and two together. Lectins… let’s talk…
The Hemoglobin A1c test sounds like something you would have had to take back in AP bio class, but it’s actually a fairly common blood test. Your doctor may even have suggested you have one done in the past. The A1c can be used to determine whether someone is diabetic or pre-diabetic based on the amount of sugar in the…
Probably the most common question I get from people on my Facebook pages, blogs, and programs, is about high morning blood sugar levels. They want to know why they wake up with a blood glucose level that was higher than when they went to bed. This is a logical question, and stems from much frustration. In fact, I completely understand…
Due to recent advancements in technology related to testing blood sugar levels, there are now a range of glucose (blood sugar) monitoring devices and applications available on the market that make diabetes management a little easier and a tad more fun. Anyone with diabetes is familiar with using a glucose monitor. This is important to provide information related to keeping…
Modern man is lucky to have things he didn’t have just a couple of hundred years ago. Electricity and running water in the home. Appliances that make life easier and more convenient. And technology that helps keep him informed and connected 24/7. But with the good things come the bad; namely, modern man is plagued with diseases that were not…
