1 in 4 Americans are Pre-Diabetic or Have Diabetes: Are You Safe?
Posted on July 19, 2008. Filed under: health, weightloss, wellbeing | Tags: Diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, lifestyle choices, metabolism, pre-diabetes, reversing type 2 diabetes |
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This report I found courtesty of Mercola.com, (thanks Joseph) should have every Aussie asking this question: “Am I on track to follow in the USA statistics?” Fellow Aussie’s we are closely following in the American’s footsteps when it comes to our dietary habits and therefore our Pre-Diabetic and Diabetic statistics: Are you going [...]
Simple Ways to Increase Your Metabolism
Posted on June 23, 2008. Filed under: weightloss, wellbeing | Tags: BMR, Dieting, Eating, Food energy, metabolism, weight loss |
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Everyone is talking about Boosting your metabolism, but do you know what that really means?
It means the rate at which you burn your intake of calories or energy. This is a highly involved process involving many structures and cellular and chemical changes within the body, including the mitochondria, the ATP cycle, [...]
Can the ‘Diet’ Drinks They’re Making You Fat!
Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: health, weightloss, wellbeing | Tags: artificial sweeteners, aspartame, fat, health, lose weight, metabolic, metabolism, saccharin, sugar, weight gain, weightloss, wellbeing, wellness |
“TO LOSE weight, bin the diet cola. That’s the message from studies showing rats got fatter on diets containing artificial sweeteners than on those with sugar.
Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, gave rats set amounts of yogurt sweetened with either sucrose or saccharin, plus an unrestricted supply of ordinary [...]
