Posts Tagged ‘ Diabetes ’

Living longer is a goal for almost everyone. The headlines are full of healthful information about how to extend you life expectancy, the problem is that you have to look further down the road.

Startling new statistics on diabetes released by the National Institutes of health this week show that the rates of diabetes and impaired blood sugar in American are increasing at alarming levels.

I'm sorry to say this to you if you don't know it, but medicine is never going to find a cure for cancer, or multiple sclerosis, or diabetes, or heart disease or hundred of other slow-developing diseases.

Today marks the beginning of a new feature here at OlsonND.com, the weekly Health News Digest. I will compile and review the latest research on a variety of health news items. Health News: HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (HRT): HRT and the risks of breast cancer were reviewed in a recent symposium. It appears that even...

Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows that I’m a big proponent of eating better. I support eating better because it is the most powerful way to change your health. Yes, it is more powerful than drugs and even supplements. The second most powerful way to improve your health is exercise.

This article will piece together the bits of information out there on sugar and brain function to get a better understanding of what sugar is doing to our brains.

Exercise is a powerful way to change how you feel and it can actually alter or reverse many diseases. If exercise were a drug, doctors couldn't keep it on the shelf. Exercise is truly the best drug ever, and the incredible part about the exercise story is that this "drug" is free and it...

Diabetes Doubles According to recent research, the number of people with diabetes has doubled in the last 10 years.1 The report, by the Centers for Disease Control or CDC, shows that the nation (and really the whole developed world) is becoming heavier and heavier (see YouTube video) and with that excess weight comes an...

Addictions can be tricky to define; there are both physical and psychological addictions. Proving something is an addiction is a bit difficult, but the test below is a test that would work for any addiction. Give it a try:

What you should notice about this chart, or any glycemic index chart, is that there are a number of foods that are missing. The reason why these missing foods are not on the chart is that they don't have any effect on your blood sugar at all.