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Best Beverage Choices For Diabetes

Even if you eat a perfect type 2 diabetes diet, what you drink can wreak havoc on your diabetes management. Oftentimes, what people drink is overlooked as a reason for their high blood sugars. Beverag...

Uncovering the Truth of Plant-Based Diets

"Eat more plants" has been common nutrition advice for many years but the plant-based movement is fairly new. A plant-based diet is becoming increasingly popular as it has many benefits for overall he...

Easy Diabetic Diet for Beginners: 4 Tips &Tricks

Most forms of diabetes are manageable with proper medical care and maintainable lifestyle changes. If you have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, it may be hard to know where to start. Our dietitians...

Dangers of the Keto Diet

The popularity of the keto diet increased over the last few years and now seems to be fading slightly. For a period, you saw highly processed keto items with unhealthy ingredients popping up everywher...

Type 2 Diabetes Diet: Essential Insights and Tips for a Healthy Life

An estimated 37.3 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is over 10% of the population. With rates of diabetes increasing, it is crucial to raise awareness and combat the abundance o...

Are "Net Carbs" Important for Weight Loss?

It is very likely if you’re reading this you have been hit by the low-carb and keto craze over the last few years. It seems like everywhere you turn there are remnants of this diet trend. This c...

Are Your Headaches Linked to Your Diet?

Next time you are out at a public event, glance around and try to keep track of every sixth person that walks by you. Did you struggle? Was it too many people to count? According to the National Libra...

Is a Very Low-Carb Diet for Weight Loss Effective?

Very low carbohydrate diets are very popular right now due to the quick weight loss that they can produce. But is a very low carbohydrate diet better than other diet approaches when it comes to losing...

Best Advice For Carbs On The Label

Food labels can be very confusing but we all know how important they are. Oftentimes people don’t know what to look for to determine if a product is good for them. I have one very simple trick f...

Healthy Alternatives to Donuts

It’s National Donut Day! It’s true that donuts are synonymous with unhealthy, but that doesn’t mean you have to skip out on celebrating completely. Donuts are one of the only foods t...

What Are Smart Carbs?

Our bodies need carbohydrates to survive, as it is the body’s preferred energy source. Many people believe that carbohydrates only come in the form of bread, pasta and cereals, but that certainl...

Eating Right with Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disorder where the body struggles to maintain healthy blood sugar (glucose) levels. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form, accounting for 90-95% of all cases. It occurs when th...

Avoiding Empty Calories

A calorie is defined as a unit of energy. In the same way that we put fuel into vehicles to make them run, we must also put calories into our bodies to essentially “fuel” them. Maintaining...