Article tagged with Diabetes
Genetics: The Deciding Factor
Anyone who has seen the size of an average medical textbook would be obligated to wonder how so many diseases could come from such a short list of causes. The answer lies in our genes: Our individual genetic blueprints are so diversely different that an almost infinite number of diseases can come from a lifetime of exposure to a limited number of stress factors.
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.
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.
