Do we need breakfast? Our body goes through hormonal changes during the night from growth hormone releases in the middle of the night to stress hormones close to the dawn (morning). Our body releases stored glucose from our glycogen stores to get body read for the next day work and hunting (as it was in […]
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How to calculate your daily calories need (Daily Energy Expenditure) Here is the easy equation to calculate your daily need of calories, or what is called Daily Energy Expenditure. DEE = BMR + PA + TEF DEE = Daily Energy Expenditure BMR = Basal Metabolic Rate PA = Physical Activity TEF = Thermal Effect of
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When Should I Take Insulin? If you are type-1 diabetic and you are not producing any insulin or producing very little insulin then you must take insulin to survive. If you are type-2 diabetic, you probably already producing a lot of insulin but you have insulin resistance and your insulin is not being properly used.
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How to tell if you are healthy or not? Being fat, or overweight doesn’t mean that you are healthy. Being slim doesn’t mean that you are ill. To understand how healthy you are, you need to check your heart health and your metabolic health. For this you can do few tests which are simple and
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Why morning (fasting) sugar is high and how to control it? n diabetics, fasting sugar after several hours of eating may go high due to several reasons but mainly because of “dawn phenomenon” and “insulin resistance” because your liver dumps sugar from your glycogen stores to get you ready for the day. In non-diabetic healthy
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How to Calculate Your Carbohydrate Threshold? Please see how to calculate your carbohydrate threshold from the below calculations and learn how to maintain your sugar levels in the right range if you have type-2 diabetes. Please remember sugar is present in every food except proteins and fats. Some food has more sugar like rice, flour,
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Sugar spoons in different foods This is a great informational video on how much sugar spoons different foods contain. This is to show that diabetics not should avoid the sugar only but also other high carbohydrate foods as well, because carbs convert to sugar after digestion and raise your blood sugar ultimately. Download the tables.
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What are Different Types of Diabetes There are mainly two types of diabetes, namely Type-1 and Type-2. n Type-1 diabetes, autoimmune disease destroys pancreatic beta cells and very little or no insulin is produced. This happens mainly in young age or childhood. Type-1 must take insulin to survive. Type-2 diabetes normally happens in the middle
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