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It is important that we all follow a healthy, well-balanced diet in order to have long, healthy lives. For diabetics, a healthy diet is even more important than it is for others. More than 23 million Americans suffer from diabetes, and millions more may be at risk of developing the disease, or may even have it and not realize it. There are three types of diabetes – Type 1 or juvenile diabetes (about 5-10% of all cases), Type 2 diabetes (which is the most common, and seen in approximately 95% of all cases of diabetes) and gestational diabetes. Continue reading →

By definition the word “diet” means many things including: the foods that humans and animals eat;, a regular intake of anything, and a regulated intake of foods meant to promote weight loss. The word comes to the English language via an ancient Greek word meaning “course of life” and an old French word. Continue reading →

Each year, more than 16 million people across the globe die from cardiovascular disease, and this disease is also the cause of more than 30% of all deaths worldwide. In the United States alone, heart disease and strokes are the cause of more than 40% of all adult deaths. In 2006, more than 450,000 coronary bypass surgeries were performed in US hospitals, followed by more than 2,000 heart transplant surgeries in 2007. There are a number of risk factors for heart disease, including: Continue reading →

Everyone knows that we eat to give our body energy and raw materials to function, heal, and grow. Even the most avid couch potato burns energy sitting on the couch and watching TV. The human body is a machine, which means it needs energy to operate at all times. A sleeping person may not look like he’s doing much of anything, but there are still brain impulses racing around, the heart is still beating, the lungs are still inhaling and exhaling. Hair and nails are growing, and skin is regenerating. If there’s no energy for the body to operate, none of this will happen. More and more body functions will be cut off in an attempt to conserve power. And as everyone knows, starvation can lead to a great many problems – even before it gets to the point of being life-threatening. Continue reading →

Bariatric surgery has been around since the 1950′s, however since that time there have been many improvements to the procedures that are used. One of these changes is the use of smaller incisions or no incisions at all. The less invasive that a surgery, the less time that is needed for recovery and the less chance of infections and complications that can endanger a patient’s life. The most common type of surgery is the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, which makes a small pouch from a portion of the stomach and then bypasses part of the small intestine. This is only one of many types of weight loss surgery that can be considered. Continue reading →