Simply walking 10,000 steps a day can reduce your risk for diabetes. An Australian study of close to 600 middle-aged adults, who walked 10,000 steps a day had lower body weights, smaller waists, and better insulin sensitivity. Walking daily can both lower your risk for diabetes and help manage the condition once diagnosed. Coffee, your … Read More
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Everywhere you turn there is news about Paula Deen’s recent revelation that she has been dealing with type 2 diabetes for the last 3 years. Some say they are not surprised given the type of food she cooks and recommends. Some say they expected it because she is so overweight. Others feel she should not … Read More
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Prediabetes, also know as metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance syndrome is not a disease but a cluster of symptoms that doubles your risk for heart disease and quadruples your risk for diabetes. It is estimated that 79 million people have the condition The guidelines for prediabtes were set by experts to cast a wide net … Read More
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Foods high in sugar aren’t the best choices for you, but sugar and sugary foods do not cause diabetes in healthy people. Making poor food choices, not being active, and gaining too much weight are the major risk factors for type 2 diabetes. … Read More
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated 79 million Americans are prediabetic, a condition that puts a person a risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Yet very few of these people know they are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the next decade. A recent study published in … Read More
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The Diabetes Counter is celebrating 20 years in print, with over a half million satisfied readers. Eight percent of the U.S. population—24 million people—has diabetes and 59 million have prediabetes. Every 24 hours, 4,100 new cases are diagnosed. That’s 1.5 million new cases a year. The Diabetes Counter has been helping people manage diabetes since … Read More
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We love to try new foods. Some are great and become staples in our kitchen. Others don’t measure up. See what you think. Meals To Live, a line of frozen meals designed specifically for people with diabetes, was launched in September. Since many people with diabetes also have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart … Read More
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How to lower blood pressure and protect against heart disease and diabetes? Can a chocolate bar truly do all that? It sure is tempting to believe. Let’s start by giving you an end point. If you have a cup of cocoa for breakfast, green tea for lunch, and a glass of red wine for dinner … Read More
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Every 24 hours, 4,100 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in the US. What is diabetes? When you have diabetes, there is too much sugar in your blood. People with diabetes either don’t make enough insulin—the substance that helps sugar get from the bloodstream into cells to be used for energy—or their cells don’t recognize … Read More
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