If you are a diabetic you must carefully plan your meals to maintain your blood sugar levels. While you shouldn’t have too much carbs, you can’t avoid it all together because too little carbohydrates may lead to hypoglycaemia. Also, many diabetics must monitor their weight because a larger obese population has diabetes. Our weight also […]
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How diabetes affects your feet
Statistics show 60 – 70% diabetics have foot problems. From varicose vain issues to diabetic neuropathy, high blood sugar makes your feet a breeding ground for all sorts of foot problems. In this article, we will look at how diabetes affects your feet and how you can keep your feet safe from any complications. The […]
How to Reduce Muscle Soreness after Working Out
You may have a great workout session in the gym, but the next day, when you wake up, you can’t move. DOMS or delayed onset muscle soreness is a common thing that occurs post-workout. Ideally, when your body feels the pain, you are less likely to move and damage your body further. So, it is […]
How To Help Someone Having A Hypoglycaemic Shock
Hypoglycaemia is a condition when a diabetic, particularly a type 1 diabetic, has a sudden drop in their sugar levels. It can happen from various reasons. Some of the most common reasons are as follows: They have taken their insulin prior to their meal but got busy and skipped the meal They took a high […]
The Atkins Diet – What it is and How it can Help Diabetics
The Atkins diet was a simple plan made by Dr. Robert C. Atkins in 1972. It was made to help overweight people loose weight and had a simple theory behind it that stated that by having lesser carbs we can reduce our weight even if our protein and fat intake is high. The Atkins diet […]
Popular Fitness Diets – How Efficient are They?
If you are an athlete or just someone who likes to stay fit, you would pay a lot of attention to your diet. There are so many diets out there that are made especially for athletes, some are extremely rigid while other diets are more flexed out. Let’s look at some popular diets that are […]
5 Summer Care Tips for Diabetics
With summer walking around our blocks we might as well prepare our self before opening the door. If you aren’t careful in the summers, you can experience significant nerve damage, frequent hypoglycaemia, infections and so on. Here is a summer care routine that will help every diabetic work through the difficult months with ease. Protect […]
Healthy carbs for diabetics
When you are a diabetic, the dietary choices you make has a great impact on your life. Unlike type 1 diabetics, type 2 diabetics can protect themselves from further complications just by having a good diet plan. Part of a good diet includes the kind of carbohydrates we include in our day to day meals. […]
Reasons Why Women Should Strength Train
Women are always told what to do and not do with their bodies. Exercises that will accentuate their beauty and those that would take away their femininity. Apparently women workout for one reason and one reason only – to look young and beautiful. Women were told not to train with weights because a bulky body […]
Can Proper Nutrition Affect your Feet?
Proper diet largely determines the state of your overall health. True, some illnesses are hereditary, and you just can’t control how you get them. But you can slow down the prognosis by maintaining a healthy diet. The question is, can an unhealthy/healthy diet affect the health of your feet? Of course, it can! Here are […]