The Challenge of Halloween for Kids with Diabetes
Kids with diabetes face a challenge on Halloween: what to do with all the candy. While their friends are busy consuming their trick-or-treat booty, kids with diabetes must be more careful.
Kids with diabetes face a challenge on Halloween: what to do with all the candy. While their friends are busy consuming their trick-or-treat booty, kids with diabetes must be more careful.
Tips from fresh produce experts for bringing more fruit, veggies and other healthy foods to your family’s table without breaking your budget, including a great recipe for Grilled Balsamic Vegetable Pops.
Do you sometimes feel as though you’re stuck in a rut? If you’re finding yourself low on energy and in need of something to sharpen your ability to focus and make better decisions, then researchers may have a simple solution for you.
Move over gazpacho, there’s another refreshing cold summer soup made with zucchini and avocado!
Few things go together better than chicken and an assortment of summer vegetables all cooked so that the flavors mingle. Convenient and easy to prepare, this dish makes a great complete summer meal.
Inhaling the aroma of a steaming bowl of canned tomato soup, while gazing at its velvety orange-red color, recalls for many people comforting childhood memories. In fact, tomato soup ranks high on the list of American comfort foods.
It’s the end of the summer and you really only have two choices – ratatouille or gazpacho – to cope with an overabundance of tomatoes.
The effect of regular physical exercise alone on metabolic control in NIDDM is quite variable and frequently of small magnitude. Greater improvement in glucose homeostasis can usually be obtained by weight loss. Despite the relatively small impact of exercise demonstrated to date, regular physical exercise may be a therapeutic component supplementing diet in selected patients.
We are surrounded by messages about the importance of physical activity. So why do so many of us have such trouble starting or sticking with a plan to be more active?
Omega-3 fatty acids have been making sensational nutritional headlines recently, which seems to be at odds with health news about fat intake. What are these fatty acids?
Learn about a trendy snack that’s diabetic-friendly – and how you can make it at home. Great for school, work or on the go. You may be surprised by how tasty this is!
A bowl of steaming hot oatmeal is a good way to start a cold winter day. With four grams of dietary fiber in each cup of oatmeal, it’s a great way to boost fiber intake. Includes recipe for oatmeal pancakes.
People in sprawling counties weigh more, walk less in their leisure time and have higher rates of high blood pressure compared with more compact counties.
The EatSmart Nutrition Scale is the only scale on the market that includes a Nutrition Facts Calculator mode that allows you to determine the nutritional content of foods that come in packages, boxes, cans and other labeled containers.“
By entering the serving size and Nutrition Fact from the label it will calculate the nutritional value for the portion placed on the scale.