Today’s Diabetes is NOT Your Grandma’s Disease
Each and everyday, we learn more and more about what causes diabetes, and thus new ways to treat it. If what you know about diabetes is from observing what your family members do or have done, you are missing the boat. When a new diabetes patient comes to my office, I try to explain to…
Read MorePumping Iron to Improve Your Diabetes Control
To maintain a healthy body and to promote good diabetes control, your body needs iron! You may remember from your high school chemistry that iron is a strong, hard, magnetic, silver-gray metal that is atomic number 26 in the chemical element list. Iron is found naturally in the foods we eat, and iron is a…
Read MoreHow Are You Bathing Your Cells? The Key to Appetite Control
I wish I had a dollar for every time a client stated, “If only I had more willpower I would not have a weight problem” or for when they asked me for a medication to decrease their appetite. First of all, realize that there is NO such thing as willpower. Willpower is nonexistent, and the…
Read MoreDark Chocolate: A Tiny Piece is All It Takes for Health & Pleasure
It’s now less than one month after Christmas, and I am posting an article about “chocolate.” Did you get your fill of chocolate over the holidays? Does anyone ever get their fill of this delectable treat? It is soon to be February, which as you know is a very popular time for chocolate. Do you…
Read MoreTo Weigh or Not to Weigh
If you are trying to lose weight like most people these days, you might find yourself becoming fairly attached to your bathroom scale. However, there is a better “weigh,” pardon the pun, to monitor your weight loss progress than to rely on this “irrelevant” and out-dated method. Is this you? When the number on the…
Read MoreShould People With Diabetes Avoid Potatoes?
Should People with Diabetes Avoid Potatoes? Should people with diabetes avoid potatoes? Myths about foods people with diabetes should eat or not eat are numerous. Potatoes are one of these foods that have gotten a very bad wrap, and because potatoes are known to be a “starchy” vegetable (and break down into sugar), it is…
Read MoreWhat Are You Doing to Prevent Sarcopenia? Use It or Lose It!
Have you ever had major surgery? If you have, you will know that once the anesthesia has worn off, the first thing the doctors and nurses require of you is to “get out of bed” and move! But, “wait a minute,” you cry, “I just had major surgery–let me rest.” Thankfully, however, for you, that…
Read MoreTop Ten Tips for Reducing Stress, Weight & Promoting A Balanced & Healthy Life
It’s no secret that harmful hormones produced during times of stress, such as cortisol and adrenaline, can wreak havoc in all areas of our life, including causing weight gain, decreased immune response, and illness. Follow these simple guidelines and you will decrease your level of stress, increase your immune response, increase your metabolism, and provide…
Read MoreShould People With Diabetes & White-Coat Syndrome Be Treated?
Many people experience what has been termed, “white-coat” syndrome or hypertension (high blood pressure). It has been dubbed “white-coat” syndrome due to the anxiety that is experienced by patients when visiting their healthcare providers (who often wear white lab coats). This phenomenon is correctly termed “isolated clinic hypertension, “ where their blood pressure in the…
Read MoreObesity & the Metabolic Syndrome
In recent years, scientists have found that some of the complications of obesity, which include diabetes, hypertension, insulin resistance, and heart disease, were more clearly related to the central distribution of fat (excessive fat tissue in the abdominal region), than to overall level of obesity. This central location of fat and the release of fatty…
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