A healthy diet is essential if you want to protect yourself from heart disease, diabetes, and other terrible health conditions. Keep your body in good shape with heart healthy foods. A good balanced diet is the best thing that someone can use to decrease the risk of numerous conditions and diseases, like heart disease and/or diabetes. The food you eat and how much you eat can … [Read more...] about Worried about Your Risks for Heart Disease and Diabetes?
Foods To Lower Blood Sugar
Good Foods for Diabetes – Finding the Right Fruits and Vegetables
What are good foods for diabetes? Even foods containing carbohydrates are important in a healthy diet. But choosing the right fruits and vegetables wisely is another part of the plan. Check out the video below for some simple tips and pointers about what to do when you wander around the produce section of your grocery store...Tell us what you have found most useful to you in … [Read more...] about Good Foods for Diabetes – Finding the Right Fruits and Vegetables
Foods High in Antioxidants – Best Beans to Eat for Protecting Against Oxidative Stress
What are the best foods high in antioxidants? It turns out that some beans (legumes) contain more antioxidants than others. A research group published a paper (Xu et al J Food Sci 2007; 72(7):5522-7) a while ago that directly compared a number of different legume foods.Their bottom line was that the protection against free radicals (oxidative stress) was higher for black beans, … [Read more...] about Foods High in Antioxidants – Best Beans to Eat for Protecting Against Oxidative Stress
Diabetic Desserts
There are plenty of diabetic desserts and other delicious desserts that are fine for diabetics to eat. So if you love your puddings and you have been diagnosed with diabetes, or if you are cooking for guests including one or more diabetics, do not despair. You have come to the right place. The first thing to realize is that you can have sweet foods in moderation if you are … [Read more...] about Diabetic Desserts
Bitter Melon for Lowering Blood Sugar and Preventing Pancreatic Cancer
One of the main natural products that can help lower blood sugar is bitter melon (Momordica charantia), which is a type of bitter-tasting edible squash-like vegetable food. As a plant, it contains a number of different natural ingredients, at least one of which can act as if it were insulin-like to lower blood sugar. That ingredient is called curcurbitane triterpenoids. These … [Read more...] about Bitter Melon for Lowering Blood Sugar and Preventing Pancreatic Cancer
