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Balancing the Blood Sugar Equation: Natural Approaches to Metabolic Health
New information, key ingredients and myths around blood sugar and metabolic health. Unfortunately, individuals who work out, eat a healthy diet and get enough rest and relaxation may still suffer from poor metabolic health. And while it’s easy to track some metrics through the scale, a pedometer or a nutrition app, it’s more difficult to ...
That’s So Meta (bolic)!
People are finally seeking to tackle their metabolic health, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Ballooning waistlines tend to be the factor that opens people’s eyes that there may be something more insidious going on inside them—chiefly, metabolic dysfunction. And unfortunately, those with metabolic dysfunction, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes comprise a very ...
Blood Sugar & Metabolic Health: What’s Next?
Lifestyle changes and natural supplements may help improve blood sugar and metabolic health. When thinking of preventing heart disease, many people aren’t automatically considering metabolic health. In fact, most people aren’t aware of what metabolic syndrome even is. This is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cluster ...
How Sweet It Is: Helping Patients Manage Blood Sugar
High blood sugar is years in the making, but you can help your patients take control with dietary supplements and lifestyle changes. Before type 2 diabetes sets in, you can help your patients potentially stave it off. But it appears that there may be several baked-in misunderstandings about the cause of erratic blood sugar and ...
The Choice: Healthier Blood Sugar Status
Reducing high blood sugar is likely a need for many of your patients/clients. Here are some suggestions. Diabetes is Optional, is the name of a best-selling book by medical expert Jacob Teitelbaum, MD. The crux? Developing type 2 diabetes is indeed set in motion by dietary choices. Even after blood sugar numbers begin to creep ...
New Coalition to Push For Low-carb Diet to Be Added to U.S. Nutrition Guidelines
A new group called the Low-Carb Action Network (LCAN), a coalition of doctors, academics, and average Americans with personal success stories using low-carb diets, has launched to urge U.S. nutrition leaders to include a true low-carb diet as part of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). LCAN members point to a large and rapidly ...
Evening Eating Linked to Poorer Heart Health For Women
Women who consumed a higher proportion of their daily calories later in the evening were more likely to be at greater risk for cardiovascular disease than women who did not, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2019. Researchers assessed the cardiovascular health of 112 women (average age ...
Twin Study Shows What’s Good For the Heart is Good For the Brain
Emory University researchers are giving us double the reasons to pay attention to our cardiovascular health—showing in a recently published study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that good heart health can equal good brain health. The American Heart Association defines ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) across seven modifiable risk factors (blood sugar, serum cholesterol, blood pressure, body ...
The Blood Sugar Battle
Diet and exercise are the keys to metabolic wellness, but when the lock is jammed, practitioners can help support the metabolic system naturally. Metabolic syndrome, also known as insulin resistance syndrome, is the combination of risk factors that raise the likelihood of heart disease or other health problems like stroke or diabetes. There are five ...
Battling Blood Sugar
As metabolic syndrome becomes a larger problem in the U.S., practitioners are urging patients to make lifestyle changes. Blood sugar issues have become a major issue in the U.S. According to the American Diabetes Association, 29.1 million (9. 3 percent) of Americans had diabetes 2012. That number jumped from 25.8 million (8.3 percent) just two ...
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