Enjoy these delicious meat and vegetable main dishes that are not only fast and healthy, but easy to make and taste terrific. Honey Mustard Chicken and Carrots, Pepper Rubbed Steaks with Carmelized Onions and Lemon Garlic Roasted Pork and Vegetables make meal…
Traditional slow cooker recipes often call for browning cuts of meat in oil or fat, then transferring the meat into the slow cooker. Even when trimmed of visible fat, these traditional meat cuts may still be relatively high in fat. By using the simple…
Chances are, no matter how strong a dieter’s resolve, sooner or later a craving will rear its ugly head. But even the strongest urge for a forbidden food doesn’t warrant abandoning your low-carb lifestyle. “You should diet as if your life depended…
More than 435,000 women have heart attacks each year and more than half die. In fact, while heart attack rates for men are falling, rates for women are on the rise. One in every two American women will die of heart disease.…
Water is crucial to any fitness or weight-loss regimen. When you exercise, water helps your body convert excess fat to energy and helps your kidneys flush out waste products from the extra fat and calories you burn. Water also keeps your body…
Do you drink enough water? If you don’t, you’re affecting almost every aspect of your health. Experts rank water second only to oxygen as essential for life. Water promotes good health in many ways, from reducing the risk of certain cancers to…
Many nutritional supplements can lessen the inflammation in diabetes, but it is essential that the underlying diet be corrected. That said, a key objective of supplementation should be to lower glucose levels and improve insulin function, which should in turn reduce inflammation.…
This article lists many supplements that are suggested as useful for hypoglycemia in the literature. Outlines the importance of the B vitamins in metabolizing fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Calcium, chromium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc are discussed. (Low blood…
Hypoglycemia can be the precursor to Type II diabetes and other insulin resistance related ailments. The good news is that treatment is easy to understand, and you can manage it yourself. Best of all, the treatment is without risk, whether or not…
Perhaps because it’s poorly understood and not commonly discussed, peripheral neuropathy is sometimes called the “silent disease”. Yet it affects more people than rheumatoid arthritis-a much better known ailment-with just as severe consequences in its worst form. (Neuropathy and Diabetes Education)