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How to Delay or Prevent Diabetes Complications
Type 2 diabetes occurs when your blood sugar or blood glucose levels are too high, and when your body is unable to bring these levels back down to normal fasting values of between 70-100mg/dl. Over time, high blood sugar levels and having diabetes can put you at risk...
Create Healthier Recipes Without Salt and Fat
When you prepare your favorite recipe for dinner, do you find yourself adding salt and butter to make it extra mouth-watering? Here in the good ole South, the more salt and butter the better (ask Paula Deen), right? Although adding salt and butter to recipes may make...
7 Ways to Avoid Weight Gain with Portion Control
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and with it comes lots and lots of delicious food. Often we celebrate this holiday by overeating and—quite frankly—indulging to our heart’s desire. What’s the harm in a little weight gain anyway? Actually, quite a lot! The State of...
Thanksgiving Menu Ideas That Won’t Bust the Belt-Line
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and for most Americans this means eating – lots of eating, followed by weight gain. The average American consumes 3,000 calories and 225 grams of fat during one Thanksgiving meal. This doesn’t include the alcoholic drinks and high-caloric...
How to Maintain a Healthy Diabetic Diet
When you have diabetes, it is often confusing to know what foods are okay to eat with a diabetic diet. You have probably gotten advice from numerous people and have heard things like “just stay away from added sugar” or "avoid white foods." Blood sugar levels do rise...
Why Do I Stress-Eat and How Can I Stop It?
Do you eat when you are feeling stress? You are not alone and there is a very good reason for it. Stress causes the adrenal glands to release the hormone cortisol, which increases your appetite. If stress is persistent, cortisol levels in your body will stay...
How to Maintain Healthy Cholesterol Levels
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71 million Americans (nearly 34%) have high cholesterol, called hypercholesterolemia. Even the average adult American has a cholesterol level of 200 mg/dL. This is just at the borderline for being considered...
5 Tips For Healthy Eating
Healthy eating is about more than losing weight or maintaining a certain body weight or slimming down your waist size. In fact, healthy eating can lower the risk for conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even many cancers, not...
Gestational Diabetes: Prevention and Management
Gestational diabetes affects approximately 3% to 8% of all pregnant women in the United States, and can lead to delivery complications and health problems for both the mother and newborn child. Luckily, however, the symptoms and health impact of gestational diabetes...