Sugar Overload at Retail Checkouts
Today, the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a new study on retail stores’ promotion of sugar, candy, soda, and other unhealthy foods at checkout. Food marketing isn’t only advertising: product placement at checkout is a common and powerful tool the food industry uses to manipulate us to buy and eat more calories. […]
Diabetes Savvy – The Significant Seven Risk Factors
But what if type 2 diabetes could be reversed? What if intensive lifestyle and dietary changes could improve it? Pre-diabetes and diabetes exist on a continuum and both dramatically increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, cancer, infertility, sexual dysfunction, depression and dementia. You don’t have to get diabetes to be at risk for all […]
How Are Glycemic Index and Weight Gain Related?
Often we are told weight gain is just about lack of willpower. Well, listen up. because the science tells us something different. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. Let me say that again. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. When the insulin receptors do not work properly, the body thinks there is not enough […]
Glycemic Index Made Easy
The body needs carbohydrates for the glucose they provide for fuel, especially to the brain. Our brain needs sugar to work and the body has a sophisticated regulatory system designed to keep blood sugars in a narrow window where the body operates optimally The glycemic index (GI) is a NUMERICAL system from 0 to 100 […]
Processed Meat Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
Processed Meat Linked to Type 2 Diabetes from www. FoodConsumer.org Want to reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes? Try to reduce intake of processed meat! A new study released in the Jan 25, 2012 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that eating processed meat, particularly SPAM may boost the risk for type 2 […]
The Secrets of Salsa
THE SECRETS OF SALSA I use salsa as my secret to low glycemic eating. Not all salsas are the same. I recommend reading the label carefully. I go to my local health food store and look at all the choices. I found one today that has no sodium. Here are my TOP TEN BENEFITS […]
My Yummy Low Glycemic Vegetable Snack
Look at this beautiful snack I created. It looks so beautiful and colorful on the plate. Jicama (cut up in little French Fry sticks) Baby Carrots Cherry Tomatoes Snow peas It looks and tastes wonderful and it is easy to make.
Where do people live the longest?
With all of the technological advancements, vaccines and education system in the great country of the United States of America, you would think we would have the longest life expectancy. Sadly, we don’t. A new report suggests that life expectancy is rising among other countries in the world as of 2011. The latest study suggests […]
Broader Risks seen in Type 2 Diabetes
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Adults with type 2 diabetes who did not have a known vascular disease died an average of six years earlier than those who did not have diabetes, recent study results revealed. “About 40% of the years of life lost from diabetes can be attributed […]