Reducing Blood Sugar Spikes Day 4
Include protein with your meal. Reason: You won’t secrete as much insulin. Here’s a paradox: You want to blunt insulin spikes – but to do that, you need to start secreting insulin sooner rather than...
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Eat lightly cooked vegetables. Reason: You digest them more slowly. Both fruits and vegetables contain soluble fiber. As a rule, though, vegetables make better sugar blockers, because they have more...
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Have a glass of wine with dinner. Reason: Your liver won’t produce as much glucose. Alcohol has unique sugar-blocking properties. Your liver normally converts some of the fat and protein in your blood...
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Eat sweets for dessert only Reason: All of the above (see Days 1 – 6) If you eat sweets on an empty stomach, there’s nothing to impede the sugar from racing directly into your blood stream – no fat, no...
View ArticleDrinking Diet Pop
To most, the word “diet” equals weight loss. But diet soda may not be holding up its end of the bargain. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center Center at San Antonio recently...
View ArticleThe Dirty Word – Exercise
15 is the number of minutes of moderate exercise that is needed daily to extend your life by three years, according to new research published in The Lancet. Eating Well magazine, Feb 2012
View ArticleIs it Hunger or Just a Craving?
A French proverb says “A good meal ought to begin with hunger.” Well, there is some truth to that. Make sure you’re not experiencing a craving (which is just an intense desire for some particular...
View ArticleWeight Loss Classes
Weight loss classes start Saturday, September 15th, 10:00-11:00 a.m., 7-weeks, $10.00 wkly (+ $12.00 for workbook) – register at www.hendersoncounselingservices.com Questions? Call Kris at 457-5001
View Article2013 Change
Here we are again….deciding what new things we want to accomplish, and a lot of times the things we want to accomplish have to do with our diet. One of the ideas I want to encourage you to do is to...
View ArticleQuick Diet Trick…
Hey, how’s your New Year’s Goal going? Typically we always think of a New Year’s Resolution that has to do with our health – and actually, they say that is exactly what the majority of people do. And...
View ArticleWeight Loss After 40 – Why It’s So Hard and What Works
Hello Readers – I ran across this article by Melanie Haiken and thought it was great. I know it’s long, but it’s a must-read…… A 10-step plan to win the battle of the bulge By Melanie Haiken,...
View ArticleVitamin D & Weight Loss? Hmmm
Happy September Everyone! Insert “heavy sigh” right here – that’s my usual attitude about September. Sorry, it just is. Shorter days. Colder weather. Less sun. Oh boy. Ran into this article – another...
View ArticleTo Eat Carbs or Not – That is the Question!
I don’t always get it right. Especially when daughter-in-law brings over delicious Fall treats, or, your Mom makes the best apple pie on the planet. Thanks Mom! But a recent discussion with a friend...
View ArticleDieting & Depriving Yourself
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to ban the word “dieting” from our vocabulary. The word alone always implies something you go off of at a certain point rather than developing a healthy lifestyle of eating...
View ArticleDiets, Food, & Lifestyle Change
Think of all the interesting food plans or diets you’ve been on in the last….let’s say, in the last year. Are you still able to maintain that food plan? If not, why? It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon...
View ArticleDo You Have an Anxious Brain? Feeling Depressed?
Check out interesting information at www.hendersoncounselingservices.com under the “Depression/Anxiety” tab
View ArticleDieting? Right Now…I Can’t…No Way!
Well we are in full swing with the Holidays again and I got to thinking how many people get into full swing with their Holiday-eating-mentality. You know, the kind of Holiday-eating-mentality where you...
View ArticleSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
IS GRAY HERE TO STAY Fall has come and gone. The beautiful colors of autumn have been raked up and disposed of. Days have gotten shorter and darkness falls before dinner. We know that the brutal cold...
View ArticleWeighing in on the Weight Loss Industry
I saw a quote the other day that went like this, “You’re not rich until you have something that money can’t buy.” How do you take that? After pondering on that for a little while I came to the...
View Article4 TIPS ON MAKING WISE CHOICES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
Christmas is just over a couple of weeks away (at least it was when I started this blog). Now, when it gets posted is another matter. Anyway, there I sat wondering about what I should write about this...
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