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Reversing diabetes means making tough choices in foods, nutrition and exercise
In parts 1 and 2 of this article series, we talked about how dietary sugars (white flour, corn syrup, table sugar, etc.) alter blood sugar levels and how the body tries to regulate blood sugar through glycogen storage, insulin secretion and body fat creation. In this third and final part, we're exploring the causes of adult-onset diabetes and how people can both prevent and even reverse diabetes by applying fundamental knowledge of how the human body deals with dietary sugars and refined carbohydrates.read more…
Meal makeovers: Your favorite foods made healthier
Last summer, we asked which of your favorite foods you wished were healthier. You answered, and Food Network Kitchens created slimmed-down and nutrient-packed versions of your five faves, complete with nutritional information. These made-over meals contain fewer calories and less fat than their decadent counterparts, which means they are now meals that you'll be feel good about serving. [Includes recipes for hash browns, turkey burgers, seven layer dip, fried chicken, and brownies.]read more…
Butter vs. margarine: Which is better for my heart?
Margarine usually tops butter when it comes to heart health. Margarine is made from vegetable oils, so it contains no cholesterol. Margarine is also higher in "good" fats - polyunsaturated and monounsaturated - than butter is. These types of fat help reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol, when substituted for saturated fat. Butter, on the other hand, is made from animal fat, so it contains cholesterol and high levels of saturated fat.read more…
Diabetes Menu Planning: What Do I Eat?
A registered dietitian, preferably one who is also a certified diabetes educator (or CDE) and/or is experienced in diabetes care, is an essential resource for learning more about individualized menu planning and food choices with diabetes.
While food is a factor in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes management, the rationale behind dietary adjustments in each is different. Those with type 1 diabetes base their insulin dosage in part on what they eat. Those with type 2 diabetes often use their dietary choices as a method (for some, the primary method) of controlling their blood glucose levels.read more…
13 Keys to a Healthy Diet
Developing healthy eating habits isn't as confusing or as restrictive as many people imagine. The first principle of a healthy diet is simply to eat a wide variety of foods. This is important because different foods make different nutritional contributions.read more…
Diabetes Super Foods: 10 foods for better diabetes control
10 super foods: vegetables, fruit, beans, cereal, fish, chicken breast, nuts, olive oil, yogurt, cinnamon.read more…
Low Fats, or Low Carbs?
While politics, religion and sports each create their fair share of bloody rivalries, nothing beats the level of animus generated by differing dietary philosophies. A case in point would be physicians espousing low fat diets vs. those advocating low carbohydrate diets. The low fat diets, promoted most publicly by Dean Ornish and Nathan Pritikin, stress fat-avoidance and the ingestion of high carbohydrate meals. The low carbohydrate diets, pushed most prominently by the recently deceased Robert Atkins (who died, we are assured, of non-cardiac causes,) stress a radical avoidance of carbohydrates in favor of fat and protein.read more…
Diabetes: Food Management
Understanding how the food your child eats affects blood sugar is an important part of managing diabetes. Your diabetes care provider will help you make a meal plan that works for you. Most plans are based on measuring carbohydrates (carbs) in food because carbs have the biggest affect on the blood sugar level. The three types of meal plan are: 1) Constant carbohydrate, 2) Carbohydrate counting, and 3) Exchange.read more…
Joy's Bauer's top 10 healthiest foods
Want to increase your energy, improve your mood and reduce your risk for cancer, heart disease, obesity and more? Be sure to include these super nutritious foods in your diet. [salmon, broccoli, spinach, swiss chard, beans, skim milk, soybeans, berries, wheat germ, turkey breast]read more…
How can people with diabetes use the food label to help with their diets?
They can begin with the Nutrition Facts panel, usually on the side or back of the package. A column headed % Daily Values shows whether a food is high or low in many of the nutrients listed. People with diabetes should check the % Daily Values for fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. As a rule of thumb, if the number is 5 or less, the food may be considered low in that nutrient. The goal for most people with diabetes is to pick foods that have low % Daily Values for fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol and high % Daily Values for fiber. Other label nutrition information can help people with diabetes see if and how a food fits into their meal plan.read more…
The Buff Buffet: 8 superfoods that will help pack on muscle before and after the gym
Eight foods are on the list: eggs, almonds, olive oil, salmon, steak, yogurt, water, and coffee. Add these ingredients to your stomach and faithfully follow the directions on the package - "Lift heavy weights" - and you can whip up a batch of biceps in no time.read more…
Diabetes foods: Is honey a good substitute for sugar?
Honey is quite similar to sugar, so there is no real advantage from substituting honey for sugar… If you prefer the taste of honey, go ahead and use it - but only in moderation.read more…