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Diabetes Diet Tip 7

Elizabeth — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:37:33 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 7 – Track Your Progress It makes no sense to follow a healthy weight loss plan without checking whether it’s working. Monitoring your progress will provide encouragement when you see positive results and will highlight any areas where you’re struggling so you can work on these. It’s also important to record your efforts to [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tip 6

Elizabeth — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:35:04 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 6 – Learn To Relax Stress not only causes your brow to wrinkle: it also raises your blood sugar levels. You can easily reduce your stress levels using simple relaxation strategies and mood-calming mental techniques. When you’re feeling stressed, your body releases certain hormones that rev it up and prepare it to fight or [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tip 5

Elizabeth — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:11:16 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 5 – Take More Exercise Start to become more physically active by walking – just 10 minutes a day at first. Then gradually build up the time and introduce simple strengthening exercises into your routine. Weight loss experts agree that no weight loss plan is likely to work unless it includes physical activity. In [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tip 4

Elizabeth — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:34:12 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 4 – Trim The Fat Cut back on your total fat intake and substitute healthy fats for not-so-healthy ones. Fat contains more than double the calories of carbohydrates or protein, so it’s an obvious target if you are trying to lose weight. Simply by eating more vegetables, which you will do on a healthy [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tip 3

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:25:12 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 3 – Eat A Little Less Of Everything But Vegetables Portion control is essential to weight loss, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get enough to eat. On the contrary, you have permission to eat as much as you want – of vegetables. Consider vegetables the ideal food. They are a source of complex [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tip 2

Elizabeth — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:19:06 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tip 2 – Eat Balanced Meals Forget the protein versus carbohydrates debate. You need to include some of both at each meal, plus at least one fruit or vegetable. This is the best approach to controlling your blood sugar, feeling full longer and losing weight. It sounds simple, and it is. Yet clinical experience suggests [...]

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Diabetes Diet Tips

Elizabeth — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:12:17 +0000

Diabetes Diet Tips – The Key Principles of A Healthy Diabetic Diet A healthy diabetes diet plan should be designed to give you plenty of freedom to decide how you’ll meet your weight loss goal. But that doesn’t mean that the plan can completely unstructured or without guidelines. It is actually based on principles that make [...]

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Diabetic Food

Elizabeth — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:10:00 +0000

You may come across diabetic foods in supermarkets and health food stores. These products are not as beneficial as they sound because they usually contain a sweetener called sorbitol, which is high in calories and makes your blood glucose level rise just as ordinary sugar does. In large quantities, sorbitol will also give you [...]

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Diabetes Diet – Feel Great and Live Longer

Elizabeth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:49:00 +0000

By following a healthy diabetes diet you will be better able to control your blood glucose level and maintain it within the recommended range. This will help you feel better, more active and energized, and equally importantly, will greatly reduce your risk of developing long term complications. In case you have begun to suffer from [...]

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Type 2 Diabetes Diet and Weight Management

Elizabeth — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:32:00 +0000

Eating a healthy diet and keeping an eye on your weight is one of the most important things you can do to help manage your type 2 diabetes. If you’re overweight, you are at risk of a higher than normal blood glucose level, which can lead to high blood pressure, which in turn leads to [...]

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What is Diabetes

Elizabeth — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:00 +0000

Today about 200 million people worldwide have diabetes, and this number is increasing by more than 20 million each year. If you or someone close to you has diabetes, it’s important to understand as much as you can about the condition. This blog looks in detail at diabetes, explaining how the healthy body uses glucose (sugar) [...]

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