On Healthy Living

Managing the values of your blood sugar (glucose) is not critical for diabetics - only. Medical professionals recommend that patients who take certain medications maybe altering their carbohydrate metabolism. As a result, monitoring one’s blood sugar is vital. Quite often, blood glucose testing is used to diagnose hyperglycemia (an increase in blood sugar which may […]

You may have noticed I havne’t been posting a whole lot lately. You could consider it an early summer lull, but I haven’t slowed down a bit.
The fact is, I have a bit too much on my plate, and something has to give. When I should be happily anticipating a long weekend, instead I’m […]

More and more people these days are realizing the economic and health benefits of a meatless diet. As the public becomes aware of meatborne diseases such as mad cow, the effects of growth hormones on children who consume meat or dairy products from animals treated with hormones, and the emergence of resistant strains of […]

You’ve probably heard about the glycemic index, a way of categorizing foods based on how quickly the foods convert to blood sugar in the body. The theory is that foods lower on the glycemic index convert more slowly, thus make you feel full longer and don’t provide the crash that many high-carb sugary foods do. […]

According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield study released this week (in conjunction with National Employee Health and Fitness Week) 70 percent of Americans think they don’t have time to exercise as much as they should.
Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said they wold like to get more exercise than they currently do, and […]

A study released today (reported on here) suggests that a low-fat diet reduces risk of relapse in breast cancer patients.
The study of more than 2,000 women across the United States found that a group averaging 33 grams of fat daily had a lower risk or recurrance than those who made no change in their […]

The University of Michigan Integrative Medicine department has built a new food pyramid based around healing foods. The bottom of the pyramid is water, and the top is meat and “acompaniments” such as dark chocolate and alcohol. (You can see the pyramid here.)
In between are fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, seasonings, healthy fats, dairy and eggs. […]

We all know about the benefits of drinking red wine–but we don’t know just what causes some people to experience those miserable ‘red wine’ headaches. A recent MSN article offered three theories:
1. Sulfites

Sulfites are possibly to blame. They are compounds that contain sulfur and a less-than-optimal number of oxygen atoms. Consequently, they “grabâ€? oxygen before […]

A recent study published in the American Journal of Cardiology (I’d line to the abstract if I could find it) found that meditation reduces blood pressure and can even prolong life. The study of two older studies found that men and women who meidtated had lower blood pressure than those who did not, and that […]

A bunch of recent studies have dealt with foods and cancer risk, because everyone wants to know what they can eat or what they should stop eating in order to reduce their risk of cancer. Of course, there’s no silver bullet, no perfect diet that will completely eliminate cancer risk, but there are a few […]