Remember the 2004 documentary film Super Size Me? If not, here’s a quick summary: The filmmaker ate only McDonald’s food for a month, gained 24½ pounds and experienced, among other things, fat [...]
Category: Diabetes
Keeping tabs on the diet-soda trap
If you’re over 40, you probably remember Tab. Introduced in the 1960s and particularly popular in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, it was the diet cola of choice for many. It was one of the first on the [...]
Beat diabetes at breakfast
Now that the 2015 Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee has recommended banishing the government’s long-standing warnings against dietary cholesterol, I’m hoping some of my favorite foods finally [...]
More diabetes misinformation you need to steer clear of
Every once in a while, the great “powers that be” come up with something so ridiculous and so grade-school-ish it makes me wonder who put these clowns in charge of our health. I’m about to give [...]
The growing global obesity pandemic…and three simple steps you can take NOW to sidestep it
Get a load of the headline I recently stumbled across: “Global obesity response is ‘unacceptably slow,’ according to experts.” Gee—ya think? I have been fighting the obesity battle for over 20 [...]
Overweight? Here’s why you need nutritional supplements now more than ever
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The “all-natural” ingredient putting you on the fast-track to diabetes
Here’s some “breaking news” for you: In the first-ever review of human clinical trials on the topic, evidence suggests that eating processed foods with added sweeteners is contributing to the [...]
Diabetics: Get moving after dinner
I’m always encouraging you to take a walk after dinner. And now a new study backs up this advice. Researchers at the University of Missouri found that people with Type 2 diabetes get more health [...]
Yet another reason to get your Zs
I’ve spoken many times before about the importance of sleep, but I just read about a study that makes this point more starkly than I’ve seen in a while. New research published in the journal [...]
The economic disaster killing countless victims
According to a new analysis, the cost of managing diabetes is twice what it was two decades ago. That’s right. If you have diabetes, your expenses have doubled in the past 20 years. If you rely [...]