Certain eating patterns that are known to provide protective nutrients for a healthy heart and brain. Take care of your heart and brain with these nutrition tips. Both the Mediterranean Diet and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertention) Diet provide the protective nutrients for your heart and brain. You can make some shifts in your current eating style to improve your brain and heart nutrition with these tips. Small changes are realistic and the benefits add up over time. Here are the Basics: Eat more plant-based foods---fruits and vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds. These foods … [Read more...]
The dietitian’s husband becomes domesticated
While I undergo breast cancer treatment, my husband, Bob offered to be my "guest blogger." He shares how he has expanded his cooking skills. In case you haven’t figured it out, I married the sweetest, kindest, most genuine woman I have ever met. Thus, it should come as no surprise that when I got married, several of Marcia’s friends called to congratulate me and simultaneously subtly threaten my life should I do anything adverse to their dear friend. I found this endearing, and hoped my friends would feel the same about me. They didn’t. Instead, after meeting Marcia, it was the … [Read more...]
How to Enjoy Christmas Cookies but Not Eat Too Many
Even when you have diabetes, you can enjoy Christmas cookies. The challenge is not eating too many. Here are Tips for not eating too many cookies. I've been making Christmas cookies ever since I was a young teen. In the early days my sister and I would make cutouts and decorate them with Mom's help. Over the years we would add other types of cookies to the yearly tradition. We had an active family of 8 and it was impossible to eat too many cookies back then. When I had my own daughter I was so excited to pass on the tradition of baking Christmas cookies. I had Norman Rockwell images … [Read more...]
The Sugar Scare! What to do When your Blood Sugar is Too High and you Don’t Eat Carbs
“It’s the Sugar Scare!” he said. That’s why he didn’t eat any fruit, bread, pasta and rice. Today let's talk about what to do when your blood sugar is too high and you don't eat carbs. “That orange looks and smells so good,” he added, “but I know it’ll jack my sugar up so I’m trying to stick to keto”. The “Sugar Scare” is when people avoid all fruit and starches (anything with carbohydrate) because they think it will raise their blood sugar too much. Instead, they eat only meat, poultry, fish, leafy vegetables and fats (butter, gravy, sauces, dressing and nuts). For many, this “no … [Read more...]
How to Take Care of Your Feet When you Have Diabetes
I’m sharing a “James story” with you today to demonstrate how important it is to take care of your feet when you have diabetes. A “James story” is something that happened when I was married to my first husband, James, who had diabetes. He made some catastrophic mistakes in managing his diabetes because he simply didn’t know what to do. (This was prior to and inspiration for my subsequent career in helping people manage and learn about their diabetes). Since working with people with diabetes for over twenty years, I’ve met many others who have made similar errors. I don’t want you to go down … [Read more...]
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