Reading Food Labels
Reading Food Labels Reading food labels is one of the most effective ways of determining the right kind of food to buy in the supermarket. It lets you make sensible food selections. The food label includes valuable information, especially to a diabetic. Admittedly,...
Obesity and Diabetes: Know the connection!
People with diabetes have higher than normal blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels. The digestive tract breaks down carbohydrates, sugars, and starches found in many foods, into glucose, a form of sugar that enters the bloodstream. The pancreas, through insulin,...
A Dozen Reasons to Resist the Diabetes Miracle-Cure Hype
A Dozen Reasons to Resist the Diabetes Miracle-Cure Hype Not all diabetes products are hype, but many are. While some true experts offer good non-prescription solutions, many are less than beneficial “miracle cures” created by marketers. How do you tell the...
Next Challenge
Don't rest on past success. Take the next challenge. Set the bar higher. Amaze others. Amaze yourself. You'll be glad you did! Go for it!
Glowing Contact Lens Could Prevent a Leading Cause of Blindness
Worn during sleep, the lens interrupts the process that destroys cells of the retinaHundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or diabetic retinopathy, that comes with the disease in its more advanced...
Glucose-monitoring patch could mean no more finger-pricking for diabetics
Scientists have created a non-invasive, adhesive patch, which promises the measurement of glucose levels through the skin without a finger-prick blood test
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Adding to Weight Loss Confusion
I just read an article that proclaimed scientists have discovered “something” in the blood of overweight people that isn’t there for those who are not overweight. Apparently, it prevents overweight people from ever losing weight “even when they do everything right.” ...
Is Hype Stealing Your Progress?
Trying to reboot your health? Not making the progress you expected? If you’re going by all the hype from ads, you’ve been set up to fail! Let’s look at a couple of reasons that might be frustrating you and how to change that. If you already have a plan, and you’re...
Beginning Steps to Brain Training
How would it feel to be able to resolve challenges with greater ease, increase career and family success, and gain the respect of others? Or even reverse health issues?
The Right Training
The Internet has leveled the learning playing field with training, information, programs, and new opportunities every day. When it comes to getting that easy business windfall as advertised by so many online pitches, it’s easy to feel like all we really need is the next training or product we just heard about. But beware of Wishes in the form of Bright Shiney objects that scream This One is that elusive, no-effort-required, magic bullet. None are. But wait…the next one might be…
The Challenge of Wishes
Did you know that most lottery winners are broke in five years? Why? Winning isn’t a skill. Lotteries are wishes, and while some wishes do come true, it’s more luck. Those lottery winners didn’t learn to manage their money well before their wish came true. Learning those skills isn’t sexy. It doesn’t sound like fun. It’s easier to think “It’s mine, so I’ll spend it any way I want.” Until it’s gone.
A Better Perspective
Have you ever had this happen to you?
I decided to make some lifestyle changes and immediately started recognizing pushback, procrastination, and just plain resistance.