Treatment • Lifestyle Tips • Diabetes Prevention
The Engine 2 Diet was created by firefighter Rip Esselstyn when he noticed that his firefighter co-workers had high cholesterol. The diet is a 28 day meal plan that lets you enjoy a variety of foods such as vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains. Although this is a plant based diet, however, it doesn’t completely forbid meat.
As with most low-carb diets, exercise is optional. Initial weight loss can be significant, but largely consists of water weight loss and from depleting your body’s store of glycogen. If you love meat, and can live without certain fruits, grains, and pasta for a while, this is an alternative to Atkins that you can try.
Who would not want to eat cookies and lose weight? Unfortunately, eating cookies — even “healthy” cookies adds calories and carbohydrates that may make it hard for some people to lose weight. The solution? Severely restrict overall calories.
The 5:2 diet is a plan the involves intermittent fasting (IF). If you have any issues with blood sugar, or a lifestyle or occupation that requires daily energy from food, this is probably not the best plan for you. If you are pregnant or nursing, this is not a good plan to consider.*
The Flat Belly Diet has two parts, a four-day start and the four-week eating plan. This is a reduced calorie diet with high amounts of monounsaturated fat (MUFA) that purports to slim down stomach area with little to no exercising.
Flexitarian is a combination of two words: Flexible and vegetarian. This diet allows you to be a vegetarian most of the time, but lets you have some animal protein if the urge strikes. Hardcore vegans and vegetarians may take offense to this term, arguing that you are either you are a vegetarian or not, which, in general sounds logical, but does an occasional burger mean you can no longer claim a vegetarian lifestyle?
The Atkins plan lets you eat almost unlimited animal protein including red meats, eggs, and fish. Atkins forbids pasta, breads, fruit, some vegetables, or dairy other than butter, cheeses, and cream.
There is also a vegetarian version of this diet called Eco-Atkins.
Regular physical activity can help keep your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age. It can also reduce your risk of depression and may help you sleep better. Research has shown that doing aerobic or a mix of aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities 3 to 5 times a week for 30 to 60 minutes can give you these mental health benefits. Some scientific evidence has also shown that even lower levels of physical activity can be beneficial. That’s great, but does sex count as exercise? (Hint: yes!)
“There’s no such thing as a little diabetes,†says Nicholas J. Solomos, M.D., a board certified family practice physician at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. “If your blood sugar is a little high, you should take aggressive action to manage that blood sugar. It’s a red flag that can lead to full-blown diabetes and a much higher risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney damage and other diabetic complications.â€
Coffee increases the risk of prediabetes in young adults with hypertension who are slow caffeine metabolisers, according to results from the HARVEST study presented at ESC Congress today by Dr Lucio Mos from Italy. People who drank more than three cups of coffee per day doubled their risk of prediabetes.
Lab tests that only check blood glucose levels are not sufficient to rule out insulin resistance. It is possible to have normal blood glucose levels but abnormally high insulin levels (insulin resistance).
The American Heart Association and the Institute of Medicine endorse using PE to reduce child obesity, yet a recent review in the New England Journal of Medicine classified the idea that PE classes reduce obesity as a “myth.†The American Academy of Pediatrics strikes a middle ground, endorsing PE but describing child obesity programs that rely on activity alone as “somewhat disappointing to date.â€
Start by asking what your body needs. Answering that question is not as simple as it sounds because your body often only tells you what it needs by showing signs of stress, illness, or nutritional deficits that may show in the teeth, fingernails, hair, eyes, skin, and other organs.
Not everyone who has pre-diabetes needs to lose weight so weight-loss isn’t the only focus of pre-diabetes treatment. Pre-diabetes is a medical condition that needs to be treated by making changes in your lifestyle, and, for some, may even require medication to help improve insulin response or lower to lower blood sugar. So what are these ‘lifestyle’ changes? That depends on the individual and may include a variety of things you will need to address that you may not even be aware of.
Diabetic retinopathy has been found in nearly 8 percent of pre-diabetic participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), according to a report presented today at the American Diabetes Association’s 65th Annual Scientific Sessions. Diabetic retinopathy, which can lead to vision loss, was also seen in 12 percent of participants with type 2 diabetes who developed diabetes during the DPP. No other long-term study has evaluated retinopathy in a population so carefully examined for the presence or development of type 2 diabetes.
“Age is the most important risk factor for diabetes, and we also know that family heredity plays a very important role. Telomere length is an inherited factor and may make people more prone to develop diabetes,†says Armanios.
People with pre-diabetes who lose roughly 10 percent of their body weight within six months of diagnosis dramatically reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next three years, according to results of research led by Johns Hopkins scientists.
Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by losing just 7 percent of body weight (such as 15 pounds if you weigh 200) through regular Continue Reading
The American Diabetes Association, American Medical Association, and the YMCA of the USA applaud the introduction of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act (S. 1131/H.R. 2102). Sponsored by Senator Al Franken (D-MN), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Representative Susan Davis (D-CA) and Representative Peter King (R-NY), the legislation would provide coverage for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) to Medicare beneficiaries at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Avalere Health estimates the legislation will save $1.3 billion over 10 years.
Start by measuring the circumference of your wrist with a tape measure to find out your body frame. If you do not have a measuring tape handy you can measure with your fingers. Wrap your thumb and middle finger around your wrist on the opposite hand to try touch the two.
If you have pre-diabetes you may be sensitive to gluten, have wheat intolerance, or even Celiac disease. Gluten is in all flours containing wheat and will be the main ingredient in most restaurant and commercial pizza crusts. If you feel bloated after eating pizza it may be the gluten in the crust.
