Managing diabetes can seem like a careful balancing act as you try to maintain a consistent blood glucose level. Often our focus is on reducing calories in a bid to lose as much weight as possible, but how many calories can you safely skip when you have diabetes? For some diabetics, low blood sugar [...]
One of the main reasons I recommend having two meals, one of which being a small meal such as an appetizer, is to help avoid overeating. This may sound counter intuitive, but with busy schedules we can tend to eat late or not have much time and therefore end up gobbling up as much food [...]
I once ran a 10K on St. Patrick’s day. At the finish line, rather than bagels and bananas and bottled water, we were greeted with a beer tent and each given three tickets for big plastic cups of Guinness. I’ve heard of carb loading before and after a race, but never thought about beer as [...]