Diabetes Prevention
Can Apples Help You Prevent Diabetes?
It’s apple season again and fresh orchard apples are my favorite! I have been challenged this year to find time to get to a local orchard but I did make a quick trip last week and got the tasty apples you see in the bowl. I love apples as a snack, but also really love…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know about Sweets and Diabetes
Are you trying to eat less sugar to reverse diabetes? Eating less sugar today is much more complicated with all the different foods and products available. If you are trying to make better food choices, you might find it much more confusing than you thought. This article will hopefully help answer some of your questions.…
Read MoreTop 7 Questions about Prediabetes
Have you been diagnosed with prediabetes? We have a prediabetes epidemic in the US. The rate of Type 2 diabetes is 12.4%. The rate of Prediabetes 42.4% That’s 3.5 times the rate of type 2 diabetes!!! According to the American Diabetes Association, people with diabetes are burdened with costs of almost $10,000 per year directly…
Read MoreEating More of this can Help Prevent Diabetes.
Eating more cold water ‘oily fish’ has been proven to help in prevention of diabetes for people who have a risk of developing type 2 diabetes. New study: A recent report in the January Diabetes Care journal, talks about a large study showing how eating oily fish could significantly lower the risk of developing type…
Read MoreHow to Make Midwest Meals More Mediterranean
Here are 10 ideas for adding Mediterranean foods that can help you lower your blood sugars and cholesterol! Research shows that eating more Mediterranean foods can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by up to 30 percent! But how do you eat Mediterranean foods when you live in the Midwest United States? Like…
Read MoreHow Sensor Technology can help Prevent or Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
My professional and personal experience with continuous glucose monitoring. In my professional experience as a diabetes care and education specialist, CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) has been a game changer for many people trying to get control of their blood sugars. Unfortunately, the assumption has been that only people who are on diabetes medications, especially insulin,…
Read More10 Ways to Strengthen Your Immune System AND Fight Diabetes
Keeping your immune system strong is more important this winter than ever before. How do you do that? By having a healthy digestive tract! Did you know that your digestive tract is about 60% of your immune system? Here are 10 things you can do to help your body’s immune system get and stay healthy:…
Read MoreWhat Diabetes and Money Management have in Common
Your diabetes management and money management may have more in common than you think! Are your money habits and food habits similar? Today I am reviewing my budget for Christmas spending. Just like Thanksgiving dinner it’s too easy to go overboard when everything in front of you looks so tempting! And I am really good…
Read MoreWhat You Don’t Know About Diabetes CAN Hurt You
I often hear people refer to Type 1 Diabetes as “the really bad diabetes” because people have to take insulin. However, did you know that with Type 2 diabetes blood sugars start to go higher than normal up to 10 years before you are diagnosed? This means that for up to 10 years blood sugars…
Read MoreDiabetes Prevention Starter Carb Plan
If you are looking for a food plan with a little structure to get you jump started with blood sugar or weight management, this is a plan I have used. Here are some quick tips if you want to try this plan for yourself. 2-5-6 Plan 2-5-6 means that you eat 2 carbohydrate choices –…
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