You could be forgiven if your self-care suffered in 2020, what with quarantines keeping you away from the gym, the election and civil unrest causing added stress and perhaps job loss limiting (or eliminating) what you could spend on your health and fitness. Good news: You don’t need to spend anything on health and fitness….Read More >

While more than one in three adults have prediabetes, very few know it. That means the red-flag condition can’t send its important message that diabetes may be right around the corner (and that you may already be at risk for some serious cardiovascular issues.) Here’s how to recognize and manage prediabetes in time to turn…Read More >

Investigadores de Harvard recomiendan comer más frijoles, menos arroz blanco y menos carne roja para estar más sanos. En estudios de dieta de un periodo de 10 años encontraron que las personas que aumentaron las porciones diarias de arroz blanco con el tiempo tenían una presión arterial más alta y niveles más altos de azúcar y grasas nocivas en la sangre, señales…Read More >

Existen dos tipos fundamentales de diabetes: la Diabetes Mellitus tipo 1 y la Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 que se diferencian en las causas que las provocan, los síntomas, las características y el tratamiento. Mientras la diabetes tipo 1, menos común, ocurre cuando el páncreas no puede producir insulina (se detecta a una edad temprana); la diabetes tipo 2 está relacionada con el estilo…Read More >

Prediabetes means your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not yet high enough to officially be type 2 diabetes. That doesn’t put you in the clear by any means. Here’s why: Prediabetes is a critical sign that you are on the slippery road to type 2 diabetes, a chronic condition that affects how your…Read More >

Jim Edholm, 78, was briefly stumped when his doctor told him he was borderline diabetic. But the North Andover, Mass., resident then realized he’d been less active in the prior three months and had been eating lots of sweets—“mostly cookies.” Just over a third of American adults have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease…Read More >

I have always struggled with emotional eating. I would eat when I was happy, eat when I was sad, and eat when I was bored. Food has always been a comfort for me. At age 32, after having my children, my weight went up to 240 pounds, and it remained roughly the same for 11…Read More >

La escena se repite con frecuencia en los consultorios médicos. Vas a tu chequeo anual y, ‘de la nada’, el médico te da la noticia: sufres de prediabetes, una condición que afecta a 1 de cada 3 estadounidenses y que en el 40% de los casos no tiene síntomas. 9 de cada 10 personas en EEUU tiene prediabetes y…Read More >

With 88 million Americans or approximately 1 in every 3 adults, suffering from prediabetes in this country (and 34 million Americans, or 1 in 10, with full-blown type 2 diabetes), many people are walking around with a ticking time bomb in their bodies, and don’t even know they have the condition. Prediabetes is when your blood sugar…Read More >

Finding time in your busy day to exercise is a challenge. But new research suggests that you may only need 11 minutes of exercise each day to live longer, according to a study published in the British Journal of Medicine. Research has long shown that exercise can improve your life expectancy, because it lowers your risk of developing…Read More >