All across America people are eating more and more sugar laden meals while also getting significantly more lazy. The end result is we have a majority of our citizens who are either over weight at a minimum, or straight up obese. Many of these people will visit their physician who might order a blood glucose…
Category: Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome
Develop Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life
What is the importance of creating healthy habits for a healthy lifestyle? This question seems simple enough to answer, yet there are far too many who have not established healthy habits in their lives and seem to have little if any grasp of doing so. This is evident by our rapidly expanding obesity problems where…
Kicking Sugar To The Curb
Being certified Nutrition and Wellness consultants, Brenda Sue and I are often approached by folks who want to know specifics on how they should go about losing weight. One of the first things we always tell these inquiring minds is to quit eating sugar. We then encounter a wide range of reactions from people appearing…
Diabetes, Obesity and Life Choices
In America, in this modern world where we have all the information in the world contained within the phone held in our hand, we as a nation have become nutritionally ignorant. It is now the norm for American citizens to be overweight and almost all adults will eventually have to take prescribed medications for heart…
Health Risks of Sugar Sweetened Drinks
New Incriminating Evidence A recent study found that the more sugary drinks we ingest the more likely we are to die from heart disease. Sweet beverages were also associated with a moderate increase in the risk of dying from breast or colon cancer. Artificial Sweeteners Artificially sweetened drinks did not produce the same effects. Researchers…
Going the Zero Added Sugar Route
At David’s Way we advocate a diet that excludes added simple or refined sugars entirely. This is truly the key to sustainable weight loss that will not leave you crazy from from carbohydrate cravings which is what typically derails almost everyone on most other diet plans. Of course, we are not a diet plan, rather…
Rest in Peace Laverne
Early Tuesday morning as I was enjoying my first cup of coffee and watching our local news and weather, I was saddened to learn about the death of Penny Marshall as a result of complications from diabetes. Ms. Marshall was a television and Hollywood icon, in the seventies I always loved watching her playing the…
Low Glycemic Index Foods
To make easy low glycemic index food choices, you will need to stock the right foods. Here are ideas for what to keep in your pantry, refrigerator, and freezer. These foods have optimum flavor and nutritional value and work well, in moderation, in a low glycemic index diet. What to keep in your pantry:…
Child Neglect/Abuse Related to Obesity
Hard Truth As much as I love to be a cheerleader, there are some hard truths associated with our struggles with weight, one of the gravest being the fact that obese parents tend to produce obese children. What better reason is there to get healthy than to spare our children the misery and ill health,…