Diabetic Diet Reviews

Until you’ve been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it isn’t too late to begin working to prevent it. Some serious research indicates that people over the age of 60 can take steps that will actually prevent Type 2 diabetes. The steps are simple, too. There really isn’t anything all that hard about it, and the [...]

There are all kinds of weight loss myths out there, and some of most ridiculous ones have amazingly long lifespans. There is one and ONLY one formula for weight loss: eat fewer calories than you burn. That’s it! There’s no magic formula. There’s no magic diet pill or no magic combination of foods, either. Calories [...]

It seems that the entire weight loss industry promotes weight loss diets and products to women. You’d think that ONLY women could possibly ever need to lose weight. That’s hardly the case. Men can and do have problems with weight control, and it seems that the weight loss industry has finally taken note of that [...]

Athletes at every level have special dietary needs. Athletic activities facilitate a more rapid burn of energy over short periods of time. We all watched Michael Phelps shatter all of those Olympic swimming records and rack up the most amazing gold medal count in history at the Beijing Summer Olympics of 2008. Michael ate an [...]

Hypoglycemia is a medical condition that is the flip side of diabetes. Diabetics are HYPERglycemic — they have too much sugar in their blood. HYPOglycemia literally means “undersweet blood.” The blood sugar level is too low. The cause of hypoglycemia is unknown. It can occur at any age, and it doesn’t appear that heredity has [...]

Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, diabetes must be managed. You can’t simply ignore it and hope it goes away. It isn’t going to go away, and if you don’t manage your diabetes and manage it well, it can kill you. Oh, diabetes is never listed as the CAUSE of death, but [...]

When the kidneys are working as designed, they do a marvelous job of keeping our bodies functioning well. The glomeruli (tiny filters that are in the kidneys) keep proteins inside of your body. Protein is necessary to many bodily functions and are vital to keeping us healthy. Diabetes causes a high concentration of glucose in [...]

The all-in-one blood glucose meters are being touted as the next big thing in blood glucose level meters and thus blood glucose level control. The all-in-one blood glucose meters do have some very distinct advantages over the older-type blood glucose meters. The new all-in-one meters are smaller, lighter, and much easier to use on the [...]

According to some sources, we can put on as much as five pounds of body weight between Thanksgiving and the second day of January. When you add all of those hundreds of additional calories we consume each year at all those parties and all those family dinners together, they can add up to a lot [...]

A high-fiber diet is one of the healthier diets and also one of the best for effecting weight loss. There are some drawbacks, of course. (Aren’t there always?) A large amount of fiber in the diet causes gas to form in the digestive system. Intestinal gas, abdominal bloating, and cramping can occur when a great [...]