Welcome to mind and body education and mastery!
Want to learn about why you may be at risk for diabetes, why you store extra weight, why you crave certain foods, or why you overeat or over drink? Learn about your mind and body in an entertaining, practical and easily-understandable format by browsing the collections below.
What are insulin resistance and diabetes, and how do you reverse them?
How and why do you store body fat, and how do you decrease how much fat you store?
What are urges, cravings and habits and how do you stop them?
What is emotional eating, and how do you stop doing it?
How does sugar and alcohol addiction happen, and how do you get over it?
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USDA Food Guidelines - Good? Bad?
What is the history of those guidelines? How are they applied? Why do they matter? Have they worked to help us be healthy humans?
Is Following a Vegan Diet a Good Strategy for Best Metabolic Health?
Maybe, maybe not. It would require some data points!
Want to learn more about it?
Diabetes Medications
Well, if you HAVE type 2 diabetes, and you are taking medication for it, you’d want to know what those medications are doing inside your body, right?
And if you are PRE-DIABETIC, you might want to know what the future holds for you without lifestyle change!
And if you are neither one, knowing how those medications work helps you understand your own physiology, which in turn helps guide you in your food choices. Want to read more?
“Eat Lots of Fruits And Vegetables”
How often have you heard that phrase? As if those two categories of food affected your metabolic health equally? That is far from the truth.
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Food Addiction is a Real Thing!
I didn’t use to believe it, but I sure do now.
It’s a real thing, and it is caused by the food, NOT by YOU. Want to know more about it, including how to recognize it and what to do about it?
What should you know about your blood sugar?
Do you know about what YOUR blood sugar is doing? Do you KNOW it’s doing just fine? A full 30% of prediabetics are of normal weight and have no idea they have a metabolic problem. Could you be one of them? If you did start checking your blood sugar, what are you looking for? Learn all of that and more in this fascinating article!
What are the Current Theories as to Why We Get Fat?
There are two main schools of thought as to why we get (and stay) fat. Both have some validity, although I think there is at least one clear loser - the theory we’ve been operating under since about 1950!
We Need a New Approach To This Pandemic!
No, not THAT one. The one that is far more dangerous and prevalent, and which we are failing to get a handle on.
Why is it important to know what your blood sugar is doing if you are not someone with diabetes?
1 our of 3 people in the US right now has pre-diabetes, and 90% don’t know it. You cannot look at someone and suspect prediabetes, and yet the idea that you can is still prevalent, even among health care providers. That bias drives a lack of both testing and discussion.
YOU might be metabolically unhealthy - how would you know?
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Seed Oils!
What’s the problem with seed oils?
Well, it turns out quite a heck of a LOT, and I think after reading about it, you’ll be rather shocked that they are still a major player in our food supply!
Just One Teaspoon!
That’s all the glucose you should have circulating in your bloodstream! How does your body keep it from going lower? How does it keep it from going higher? What happens if it DOES go higher? I think learning about your body’s physiology can help you make more mindful choices.
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The Skin-Sugar Connection
Your skin reflects your health in many ways. Acne and premature aging are two reflections that can represent a diet high in sugars and starches.
Want to learn how and why there is this strong connection? And what to do about it?
The Sugar Cancer Connection
Sugar and cancer are intimately connected.
Learning the physiology of how this happens, and what to do about it, can be a cancer treatment game changer!
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Can You Measure Your Insulin Resistance?
Measuring blood sugar is easy. But how about measuring your Insulin? Or using those measurements to determine if you are insulin resistant? And how bad it might be? Yup, you can test for that!
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Is Sugar Addictive?
It has not been classified as an addiction in the DSM manual, but I don’t think that matters. I know, and you may know as well, that it sure does feel addictive.
Contrary Action!
This sounds like something a two-year-old would be good at!
But it’s actually an incredibly useful strategy when you are trying to change habits that fail to serve your best metabolic health.
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Resistant Starch
Another tool in the toolbox to decrease insulin resistance: Resistant Starch
What is “resistant starch” and why should you know about it? It is another tool in the toolbox to decrease insulin resistance and lower the risk of developing diabetes!
Read all about it in this article!
Chocolate!
Chocolate can be a highly valuable addition to your dietary plan for best metabolic health!
Does chocolate fit into a metabolically healthy diet?
It sure can! But not just ANY chocolate….
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Measuring Metabolic Health
What tests have you had that would assess your metabolic health? What should those tests be? How do you interpret them once you get them?
