diabetes

If you want a healthy heart, you must constantly work to boost your heart health. Change never happens overnight, but there are some important decisions you can make right away to put you on the path towards a healthy heart. Here are six action steps to take right away to boost your heart health to prevent heart attacks, heart disease, strokes and the risk of peripheral vascular disease. 6 simple…

I love the fast food diet–more so because I have diabetes–and I am about to tell you why you should switch to it, too, and right away! The word diet always conjures up visions of banned foods—as if you can’t eat the foods you enjoy. Diet seems synonymous with starvation. The problem with most diets is, they do have restrictions of what you can eat and cannot eat. To me,…

The “badam” or almond is among the most nutrient-rich nuts. It boasts of high protein, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. We can safely call it a super-food for everyone, including those with diabetes. Almonds are members of the stone fruit family. The almond is the seed of the almond fruit. Some other fruits that belong to the stone fruit family are plums, peaches and nectarines. Almonds were initially cultivated in…

Working towards normal blood glucose levels ensures high energy levels, faster healing, fewer infections and a lower risk of diabetes complications. Being diagnosed with diabetes can be devastating, at least initially. Then again, here is the flip side: being diagnosed is a life saver, as we are all familiar with the havoc diabetes can wreak inside our body—most of the time, silently. For some, in spite of living a reasonably…