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.
People with insulin resistance often make too much insulin in response to eating. They may also produce too much insulin in order to maintain normal blood sugar (blood glucose) levels. The body cannot excrete excess insulin made by the pancreas; excess insulin is stored as fat in the body. This…
From stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, to ketosis, dehydration, sodium, and citric acid; here are 5 ways diet soda could be stalling your diet or even causing you to gain weight.
Looking to get to or stay at a healthy weight? Both diet and physical activity play a critical role in controlling your weight. You gain weight when the calories you burn, including those burned during physical activity, are less than the calories you eat or drink.
The BMI is a measurement of the ratio between height and weight. It is not an accurate tool to determine if someone is overweight or at risk for pre-diabetes. A more accurate method of determining metabolic health risks is calculating waist-to-hip ratio...
Dr. Atkins explains very simply why you may need to increase your fat intake if you are not losing weight on his plan: "it takes fat to burn fat." Here are heart healthy fats to increase to help you decrease.
Low carb diet stalled? Drink more water. Really. When your low carb diet is failing you, the first place to look (we assume you know when you are cheating on carbs) is at your water intake. The number one "non-cheating" reason people stall on low carb diets is because they…
Amy Tenderich, a well respected blogger about diabetes wrote an article worth reading, "10 Reasons Why the Actos Pre-Diabetes study is Dumb.". I want to point out that the Actos study is not an isolated "dumb" study. Her article also prompted me to want to point out something that really…
Definition of Whoosh: The word "woosh" is a popular term among low carb lifestylers used to describe any sudden drop in weight. An interesting thing about the woosh phenomenon and low carb dieting is that dieters may still go down in size (lose inches) without seeing a change in the…
Are BMI Charts accurate for determining of someone is overweight? Many doctors still use this somewhat ineffective method of determining whether or not a person is over weight...