When you consume an excessive amount of calories or fat, your blood glucose levels can rise to dangerously high levels. This can lead to long-term complications, such as heart disease, over time. In the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 7 […]
Why is it that cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) increase the risk for diabetes? I’ll try to make this short and sweet, but it’s important you understand just how serious statin damage really is. Statin drugs do not cure heart disease. Quite the opposite: they cause it! In fact, there have been many studies proving that statin […]
If you have type 2 diabetes, you are undoubtedly conscious of what you eat and strive to maintain a healthy level of physical activity. However, there is another crucial aspect of controlling your health that you may overlook: sleep. You might have heard that getting enough sleep is critical to keeping healthy, especially if you […]
How is type 2 diabetes diagnosed? Type 1 or type 2 diabetes can usually be diagnosed in the early stages by a simple blood test. The type of diabetes that you have is determined through a combination of your symptoms: your body type and the results of a fasting blood sugar (glucose) test. An oral […]
Diabetes is referred to as a “silent killer” because it does not occur overnight. It is a silent, insidious disease that can creep up on you so subtly that you may not notice it. It is especially difficult to avoid added sugars with the increasing proliferation of sugar and sweeteners added to foods. Many foods […]
