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The CDC estimates that 1/3 of adult Americans are obese and over 29 million Americans have diabetes. But you don’t have to miss out, if you like a sweet treat, because there are alternatives to artificial sweeteners, which recently have been linked to weight gain, obesity, and diabetes. So, here are 3 desert recipes free of artificial sweeteners.
Everyone eats for comfort now and then. Maybe it is when you’ve had a stressful day at work, or at home with the children. Maybe it’s after an upsetting argument with your significant other. Perhaps you’re most likely to stress eat on the days when you are particularly hormonal. Whatever the case, emotional eating can quickly derail your health goals, or even cause you to gain weight.
My story begins with a simple idea, an idea that evolved into a goal, a goal that became a journey, and a journey that became a vegan lifestyle and weight loss.
You have likely heard the buzz about turmeric. This cousin of ginger, common in Indian cooking may be the most effective nutritional supplement you can add to your diet. Keep reading for my recipe for a delicious turmeric latte that you will want to drink every day.
In the United States alone, more than 29 million people are living with diabetes, and 86 million are living with prediabetes, a serious health condition that increases a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas is no longer able to make insulin, or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that acts like a key to let glucose from the food we eat pass from the blood stream into the cells in the body to produce energy. All carbohydrate foods are broken down into glucose in the blood. Insulin helps glucose get into the cells.
Diabetes is an ever-growing health crisis. Worldwide, over 300 million people suffer from Type 2 (formerly called “adult onset”) diabetes, and those numbers continue to rise. Researchers in Sweden have identified a compound in your mom’s favorite crunchy green vegetable that may change how we treat diabetes.
This one plant called Moringa Oleifera plant, also known, as drumstick tree or horseradish tree has been scientifically proven to have anti-diabetic and anti-obesity capabilities. Keep reading to know more about what scientists observed!
Celery juice can be life changing and good, especially for diabetics who suffer with kidney, heart, liver and vascular complications, when taken daily due to its anti-inflammatory and blood pressure lowering properties, which are backed by research.
Couples where one or both are type 2 diabetics, as well as believers in God, are better able to care for one another according to new science. This helped them to overcome the disease.
Diagnosed with prediabetes? You might want to head straight to the gym instead of the pharmacy. New research has found that weight training is a good thing, particularly when it comes to reversing prediabetes and dodging type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes has had many screw-ups particularly when it comes to natural treatments, recommended foods and addressing deficiencies, which is central in both avoiding and treating the disease.
How Jessica Knorr wanted to renew her life, gave up soda drink and and lost remarkable amount of weight on a low carb diet, improving her blood sugar. Knorr shared her story with EmaxHealth to encourage and inspire our readers in their weight loss and diabetes journey.
The brain, muscles, liver and all your cells need sugar to carry out their bodily functions optimally. However, according to updated research, sugar cravings come from the liver. Therefore, what to eat while craving sweets can range anywhere from processed foods to fruit.
Childhood type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented by early exposure or by owning a dog, however, increased risk for type 1 diabetes was seen among children exposed to retrievers.
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have developed a must have diabetes app that can tell you what your blood sugar will be based on the food you are about to eat.
New research as found that exposure to mildly cold or warm environments that are higher or lower than room temperature — about 70 degrees F — speeds metabolism, according to a new study out of the Netherlands “thereby targeting obesity and by counterbalancing excess energy intake,” The bonus takeaway was improved glucose metabolism in colder temperature for diabetics.
Research now suggests just changing your indoor temperature setting could help regulate blood sugar and tackle major metabolic diseases. Scientists say the effect on treating type 2 diabetes is as beneficial as exercising and medication to control blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.
The idea that diabetic retinopathy can be managed or stopped on its tracks through nutrition, is good news. Since, blood vessels in the retina of DR sufferers become damaged overtime, and this may lead to blindness. The foods that will help you manage and halt diabetic retinopathy need to be rich in two carotenoids called: lutein and zeaxanthin, because they both act in the retina.
Dr. Pawan Gupta, a vitreo – retina specialist, believes that nutritional therapy can halt the development of diabetic retinopathy, but its efficacy depends on how far along the disease has progressed. While he agrees that Nutritional therapy is beneficial to those suffering from diabetes. He said that: “ nutritional therapy has a role if the disease has not set in.” But, once diabetic retinopathy has set in “… the therapy has only an adjuvant role.”
The popular natural remedy and anti-inflammatory ingredient curcumin, found in turmeric, has been shown in studies to vastly improve, and in some cases prevent type 2 diabetes and it's associated symptoms, though further research has been lined-up.
PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome is a difficult condition for women. Risks associated with the ailment include type 2 diabetes. Now researchers have found electroacupunture could help women suffering from PCOS by regulating blood sugar; in turn preventing type 2 diabetes.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is thought to be the most common chronic liver disease in the Western world. Now, a European study confirms that high protein diets cause non-alcoholic fatty liver, type 2 diabetes and that fructose (natural sugar from fruit) is not the cause of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
It is a little known fact that if you ate only protein, you would starve to death. Conversely, if you eat high amounts of protein, while keeping carbohydrates in your diet low, you’re still starving yourself, only at a much slower rate. A high protein is what many people who want slim down turn to, particularly diabetics, much to the detriment of their health. That being said, high protein should be among the foods to avoid for diabetes,
Nature and science are finally coming together to help reverse diabetes permanently. Once you understand these three science-backed truths, you can take the steps to address diabetes naturally and move forward with your life.
Thickened blood spells trouble for diabetics who are chronically dehydrated due to their recommended dietary habits. It's important to find ways to bring foods into the diet that are hydrating in order to avoid vascular, heart, kidney and liver conditions that complicate the disease.
Not surprisingly a vicious rumor has been spread that fruit is taboo for diabetics. This rumor has run rampant in the medical community because fruit has a tendency to raise blood sugar levels in diabetics for short periods of time. For this reason, diabetics needlessly suffer with a number of diet-related conditions that have come to be accepted as complications of the disease. Symptoms such as constipation, anxiety, GERD, indigestion, weight gain, kidney problems, eye issues and fatty liver have become part and parcel with being diabetic. Many, if not most of these accepted conditions are attributed to the physiological stress of eating the high protein, low carbohydrate diet suggested by many nutritionists and medical practitioners – but hey, the blood sugar is under control.
Science claims the number of cases of diabetes can rise to more than 100,000 cases each year thanks to Global Warming -- the term used to describe the gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans.
Researchers are baffled about why type 1 and type 2 diabetes is on the rise among children.
Constipation is a major complaint from diabetics, which is easily remedied by understanding the negative effects of the high protein, low carbohydrate diet on digestion that is recommended by medical practitioners to control the disease.
Dandelion herb benefits are innumerable. Many see dandelions as an unsightly addition to their front lawn without ever knowing how powerfully healing they can be for the liver, which is a major cause of type 2 diabetes and other diseases. Relatively little research has been done on this bitter herb that grows liberally in your garden, and yet has the power to heal you on so many levels. The time has come to bring dandelion herb benefits to light.
