Articles in Weight Management category
How Low Can I Go?
More than once I’ve made myself a nutritional guinea pig; this time to address the nagging issue of elevated blood glucose. Like most Americans, for most of my pre-forty years I was a compulsive carbohydrate junky; surviving off of pasta, bread, cakes cookies and graham crackers ubiquitously found in hospital snack areas.
Tips for Keeping Healthy this Holiday Season
The act of sharing a celebratory meal with friends and family can be a health experience in itself. Holiday meals can be made to be healthy. Just the fact that people tend to cook fresh food is a step in the right direction!
Recipe Idea: Pumpkin Buckwheat Waffles
I’ve been experimenting with breakfast ideas, trying to trim wheat and some carbs out of the start-the- day-meal. Creating a healthy breakfast that doesn’t raise your blood glucose and contains healthy fats is a real challenge. Eggs certainly pass for healthy, but most classic breakfast ingredients do not. And sneaking vegetables into breakfast is a near impossible assignment.
Hunger Buster Smoothie
The key ingredients in this smoothie (coconut oil, chia seeds and protein powder) will suppress hunger for hours. They contain fiber, antioxidants, protien and essential fatty acids and are is especially ideal for those seeking weight loss, heightened athletic performance, maintenence of normal blood glucose, or recovery from chronic disease.
Maintaining Healthy Habits Over the Holidays
Right now you’re probably thinking about grabbing a mini snickers from that stash of leftover Halloween candy on your dining room table. Or maybe your thoughts are filled with pumpkin pies, baked macaroni and cheese, and fried turkeys. The holidays are upon us; and while it’s true that many people experience weight gain during these latter months, it is certainly avoidable. With a conscious effort to maintain healthy habits it’s easy to avoid the holiday bulge.
Glucose control, part II
In 2010 my New Year’s Resolution was to lower my average blood glucose. Last April, I posted the article How Low Can I Go and vowed to do everything I could to reach consistent fasting blood glucose levels below 90 and an Hb A1c of 5.0% without resorting to medical therapy.
Confessions of an Average American
I have a confession: I am an average American when it comes to diet and exercise. Most of us, me included, get so caught up in our daily activities and responsibilities that what we eat and how much we exercise is just an afterthought. Leaving diet and exercise as an afterthought is extremely dangerous to our future health. We may feel fine now but chronic disease will catch us in the end if we don’t pay attention now.
