Wishin’ For Nutrition
This is a simple and healthy combination that I enjoy when I feel like a healing meal. Lima Bean Soup Ingredients: 1 cup dried baby lima beans 1 onion, chopped fine 2 medium carrots, sliced 2 celery stalks and leaves, chopped 1 yam, diced 1 cup green beans 1 cup chopped kale (can substitute chard […]
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Exercise and Blood Sugar Management In Type 2 Diabetes
This is the continuation of an article started in the last issue discussing type 2 diabetes and how to manage blood sugars during and after exercise. A number of key ideas regarding the fundamentals of fuel metabolism in conjunction with exercise were discussed in the first article in Fall Equinox, Vol. 4, No. 2. I […]
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ACCORD Study
ACCORD stands for Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes. In people with diabetes good control of blood sugars, blood pressure and blood fats (cholesterol) has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes as well as the long-term complications of kidney and eye damage. With that in mind the question has […]
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From the Editor
Here we are again with the warm weather upon us and all the flowers in bloom. Perhaps you should get a nice cold ice tea, take this issue and find a nice place outside to sit and read it. For starters you’ll find the second half of the type 2 diabetes and exercise article begun […]
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Preventing Type 2 Diabetes
Defining Diabetes It is often said that you either have type 2 diabetes or you don’t. Your physician may tell you that you can’t have just a touch of diabetes or be a little bit diabetic. Why is this? The main reason is that there is a definition of diabetes based on several strict criteria […]
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Nuts About Nutrition
Yes I’m ranting again. Nuts and seeds continue to get a bad rap because of their fat content but consider this. Nuts and seeds contain precious oils/fats that are essential to your health. These omega-3 and -6 oils provide your body with the building blocks for tissue repair and maintenance. Furthermore, if your taking a […]
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“Live Well With Diabetes”
Presented by the BC Endocrine Research Foundation Let this video help you and your family better understand type 2 diabetes so you can live a long healthy life! This 55 minute video takes you through the basics of type 2 diabetes symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Specialists in diabetes care present the facts to enable you […]
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Exercise and Blood Sugar Management In Type 2 Diabetes
This is the second in a two article series on Diabetes and Exercise. This article will discuss type 2 diabetes and how to manage blood sugars during and after exercise. A number of key ideas regarding the fundamentals of fuel metabolism in conjunction with exercise were discussed in the first article in the last issue […]
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From the Editor
Welcome to the winter issue. If the lead-off article looks familiar it is because a very similar version appeared just over a year ago. I have had so many requests for this article that I have decided to reprint it with some updates and hope the message will ring loudly and clearly; type 2 diabetes […]
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Exercise and Blood Sugar Management In Type 1 Diabetes
The general rules for blood sugar management in conjunction with exercise will vary depending on whether you are a type 1 diabetic or a type 2 diabetic. With that in mind this article, the first in a series of two articles, will discuss what is known about the basics of energy metabolism in our bodies, […]
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