In this section I will post different TIPS and VIDEOS with how to get more healthy and how to exercise in some cases to help your body burn some of that extra fat.
You don’t have to be ashamed, we have all been there and it’s important to feel awesome with your body.
It’s important for all of us to get checked out for this every 12 months.
• With prediabetes, your blood sugars are around 100-125, with an A1C of 5.7-6.4%.
• With diabetes, your blood sugars are 126 and greater, with an A1C of 6.5% or greater.
It’s a known fact that 90% of the people that get Diabetes don’t find out until they are at Full Blown Diabetes. By testing our blood every 12 months it will help us determine where we stand with the Sugar Levels in our blood stream.
One Tea Spoon of sugar has 80mg and the average american consumes around 31 tea spoons of sugar a day from sweets, soda and other carbs that contain sugars.
The Pancreas works hard to create insulin to keep the sugar levels down but at one point your body becomes insulin resistant and that’s when your sugar levels starts to go up and will turn some of that sugar into cholesterol
Too much cholesterol in the blood stream can create blockages and eventually leading to Heart and Circulatory Diseases.
Our body considers excess sugar a danger and that can damage the inside of the arteries ( blood vessels that distribute oxygen-rich blood to your entire body).
We should cut the high carbohydrates and the frequent eating because that will cause the pancreas to release high ammount of insulin
High level of insulin is also very toxic to the body because it causes insulin resistance
You should:
–Eat a wide range of foods – including fruit, vegetables and some starchy foods like pasta
-Keep sugar, fat and salt to a minimum
-Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner every day – do not skip meals
-If you need to change your diet, it might be easier to make small changes every week.
Here are a few signs of Insulin Resistance:
1. Frequent Urination
2. Memory loss or lack of concentration
3. Hungry all the time
4. Craving at night for any food.
5. Tired after having a meal
6. Tingling feet or hands
After 10 – 15 years of insulin resistance the sugar levels will start to go up and turn into Full Blown Diabetes.
It’s a known fact that aprox 99% of the people don’t know that they have insulin resistance.
A good way to start avoiding this is to cut down the carbohydrates and start a intermittent fasting
What is intermittent fasting? Once you have your last meal at let’s say 6 PM then for 16 hours
you don’t eat anything to allow the body to consume the resources in your body and after that it will consume the fat to give you more clean energy.
Because of these changes in hormones, Short-Term Fasting may increase your metabolic rate by 3% to 14%
By helping you eat fewer and burn more calories, intermittent fasting causes weight loss by changing both sides of the calorie equation
Intermittent Fasting can reduce insulin resistance and thus lowering the blood sugar by 3 – 6% and fasting insulin levels by 20 – 31%, which should protect against Type 2 Diabetes
Intermittent fasting may reduce Cholesterol, blood triglycerides, inflammatory markers, blood sugar and insulin resistance, all these risk factors that can cause heart disease
Intermittent fasting can even increases the brain hormone BDNF and may aid the growth of new nerve cells. It may also protect against Alzheimer’s disease