Diabetic Nutrition

The human body needs both to function properly, and indeed, human taste buds are programmed to seek out salty food. Consuming too much sodium, however, can contribute to numerous health problems… Read More “Cutting Back on Sodium”

Maybe primitive humans had it better than we think. Sure, they had to forage and struggle just to eat, but what they ate was actually more nutritious than what many modern humans consume daily in industrialized countries like the United States. Even the food in many developing countries today, usually grown locally without advanced agricultural techniques, is more nutritious than the typical American diet… Read More “Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease”

Choosing the healthiest foods from the thousands of items available at your local supermarket can be one of the most challenging aspects of learning to eat well with diabetes. Consider the fact that a medium-size U.S. grocery store sells 45,000 different… Read More “Food Scoring for Better Nutrition”

If you’ve read a newspaper in the past 40 years, you’re probably already aware that not all fat is created equal. There are three major categories of fat in the diet: unsaturated fat, saturated fat, and trans fat. Unsaturated fats are considered… Read More “Trans Fat Begone!”

Oxygen is a Jekyll and Hyde element. We need it for critical body functions, such as respiration and immune response, but the element’s dark side is a reactive chemical nature that can damage body cells and tissues. The perpetrators of this… Read More “Antioxidants”