You may feel at a loss to know how to deal with dietary changes for pre diabetes. But your quality of life and happiness really do depend on following these simple diet tips for the person with pre diabetes. If your doctor has advised you to follow a pre diabetic diet, you have probably been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or insulin resistance. This means that your blood glucose … [Read more...] about Simple Diet Tips for the Person with Pre Diabetes
Diabetes Basics
How to Prevent or Even Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
As if you didn't have enough to worry about, perhaps you are now concerned about a pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes diagnosis from your doctor. You know that diabetes is a risk factor for all sorts of bad health outcomes, including serious complications of acute COVID-19 infections as well as chronic problems with heart disease and stroke. So - where do you begin? Here are some … [Read more...] about How to Prevent or Even Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Exercise for the Sedentary Person
The benefits of a lifestyle that involves getting a good amount of exercise pays off. It impacts your health. Getting exercise adds benefits to your health while being sedentary subtracts benefits as well as years from your life. We're not talking about running a marathon next week or anything like that. It used to be that not getting the exercise a person needs simply meant … [Read more...] about Exercise for the Sedentary Person
Diabetes (and Obesity) Risk Increases with Age OR Pregnancy
The Basics on Risks Some health issues can develop at any time during your life. But the risk of being diagnosed with diabetes or becoming obese grow as you age. The risk also increases with pregnancy. Even when you recover from pregnancy-related (gestational) diabetes, you run the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. Multiple pregnancies can also add to the … [Read more...] about Diabetes (and Obesity) Risk Increases with Age OR Pregnancy
What is Diabetes?
There are some simple facts that can help you understand what diabetes is. This video from a leading authority organization on diabetes can help. Watch this and leave comments below the video. Remember that type 1 diabetics lose the ability to make insulin in their pancreas as a result of autoimmune (antibodies against their own cells) disease, whereas type 2 diabetics usually … [Read more...] about What is Diabetes?
