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Eating to heal insulin resistance
You can now add to the library of how I’m putting together my own program: The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D. and Nancy Deville. This book is very much … Continue reading
Posted in Insulin resistance, Nutrition
Tagged books & resources (insulin resistance), books & resources (nutrition), Schwarzbein Principle (book)
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Low-carb?
I’m on low GI but not low carb. My sister got pretty sick from the Atkins diet & is only now recovering from it with the help of a nutritionally conscious acupuncturist. I was made to go on the Atkins … Continue reading
Rye bread
Since beginning to eat a low-GI diet, I have been using (organic) Bavarian whole grain bread, which is imported from Weissenstadt, Germany from a company called Heinrich Leupoldts KG (also does business as PEMA). We buy it from our local … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, carbohydrates, rye, The World's Healthiest Foods
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Cinnamon & spice & everything nice
186. 101 mg/dL. Well, the BG ain’t as good as yesterday morning, but it’s not like everything’s gonna change in a couple of days. Weight is actually hovering, wanting to go down to 185, but not quite. And another mouthful … Continue reading
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Tagged cinnamon, psyllium husk
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Under new management
186. 93 mg/dL. That represents, respectively, my weight when I got up this morning, & my fasting blood glucose (overnight fast since my last meal last night). By the weight measure, that means I’ve lost four pounds since beginning the … Continue reading
Posted in Fat loss, Insulin resistance
Tagged blood glucose, cinnamon
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Blogging health
The timeline goes something like this: On an unspecified date in the late 1950s (I won’t get more specific to evade identity theft), I was born in a hospital in small-town Montana at 11 pounds, 12 and 1/4 ounces. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged death, diabetes, How to Prevent and Treat Diabetes with Natural Medicine, Michael R. Lyon, Michael T. Murray, Mom
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On a health road
There’ll be a lot more to say about this. Suffice it for now to say that just over a week ago, one of my responses to Mom’s death became to take some pretty active steps to take care of my … Continue reading