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Anyone who has diabetes or has cared for someone with diabetes knows that testing your sugar is essential to dealing with diabetes. But just pricking yourself once in a while is not sufficient enough to really get a picture of your sugar levels... Continue reading

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I know this is another salmon recipe, but I have to be honest. I love salmon and you can't beat it as a fish from a nutrients quotient perspective. I promise. I won't have another salmon recipe. ;-) OK, with that out of the way, being from Texas I love southwestern food. What I like about this recipe is that it satisfies all of my requirements for a good recipe. In my house we have a cooking objective. It is called balance. Sweet vs. Sour. Hot vs. Mild. Acidity vs. Alkaline. This recipes accomplishes all of these requirements. The combination of the sweet potatoes against the spices with the orange slices knocks it out of the park... Continue reading

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My father passed this past September.  It was a trying time for me.  When I came back to Maryland from Texas after the funeral.  I had a lot of stuff to do, so the thing that suffered the most was my workouts.  I figured no big deal.  I am in great shape.  A couple of months won't hurt.  Well I started back about two weeks ago and for some reason… Continue reading

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I love to cook. And coupling that with my quest to be healthy has been one of the fun aspects of keeping myself healthy. I am going to showcase a recipe per week of recipes that I have come upon during my quest to be healthy. The first recipe is... Continue reading

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I recently wrote a post about an article in the Washington Post on the rising cost of diabetes medication and how being healthy could benefit both the health of your body and your finances. Not two days later another article talks about the rise in the number of diabetes cases. Both articles have a startling and equally scary reality. This rise has been 100% over the last 10 years (7 years for the rise in cost). Here is a breakdown by state... Continue reading

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Yesterday morning and I heard something that got my attention. The news story was discussing the cost of diabetes medication. According to the story between 2001 and 2007 the price of diabetes medication has more than doubled. It went from 6.7 billion in 2001 to... Continue reading

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As a type 2 diabetic, I rarely concern myself with regard to low blood sugar. Type2 diabetics typically battle with elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia), but not paying attention to low blood sugar got me into some trouble. And to be truthful, of the two conditions, hypoglycemia is a lot scarier, literally... Continue reading

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I am not addicted to sweets, but I do find myself having a sweet tooth every now and then. When I became a diabetic I thought the days of tasting anything sweet were long gone. Over time I developed strategies to overcome the limitations of not being able to ingest a lot of sugar. This usually involved the use of artificial sweeteners, such as, Aspartame or Splenda. But we are beginning to find out as we have more data, that artificial sweeteners aren't all they are cracked up to be. Then I was introduced to a natural sweetener that has been a serious life improvement for me... Continue reading

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As a diabetic one of the things I must watch out for is strokes or aneurysms, etc. When diabetes is not controlled it can wreak havoc on the small blood vessels in our organs. This can over time cause those blood vessels to hemorrhage and this can manifest itself in a variety of ways... Continue reading

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