One of the most important things for a diabetic to do is control his or he diet. While everybody should strive to eat as well as possible, for a diabetic, this is even more critical. In this article, I'm going to cover some basic things that a diabetic should do when planning a diet.
It is extremely important for a diabetic to keep his weight down. So all diets have to be structure to achieve this goal. There are many ways to go about doing this, but probably the easiest is to count calories. The question is, how many calories should a diabetic get per day? To simplify this process, take your ideal body weight, which can be calculated by starting with 100 pounds and adding 5 pounds for every inch over 5 feet. So, if you're 5' 5" tall, your ideal body weight, as a diabetic, should be 125 pounds. Then for every pound in your ideal body weight, you should eat about 15 calories per day. So, a person who's ideal body weight should be 125 pounds, they should be eating about 1875 calories per day.
Aside from watching your calories, a diabetic also has to watch his sugar intake. Many diabetics think this just involves refined sugar products such as donuts, cakes and pies. The truth is, a diabetic has to be careful of any kind of sugar, even natural sugar that is contained in fruits. The reason is because there body doesn't produce enough insulin so even natural sugars can raise the blood sugar level. Everybody is going to be different, but a good rule of thumb is no more than one serving of fruit per day.
The hard part about balancing a diabetic's diet is that carbohydrates need to be limited. However, because of this, it is important to eat foods that have a little higher fat content. The problem with this is that these foods are generally not very good for you. So, in order to compensate for this, it is recommended that a person with diabetes eats foods that contain monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which are much better for you than saturated fats.
The key to a diabetic's diet is counting carbohydrates. A gram of carbohydrate contains about 4 calories. So, if you are on that 1875 calorie diet, you want to each about 50% of those calories in carbohydrates, or about 938 calories. Dividing that by 4, you want to have about 234 grams of carbohydrates in a day. While that may seem like a lot, it's not. One slice of bread alone is 15 grams of carbohydrates. Most foods have carbohydrate information on the package.
By following these few simple tips, it becomes a lot easier to control your diabetes.
To YOUR Health,
Steve Wagner
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By S. Wagner
Monday, September 3, 2007
Best Anti Aging Cream Includes Scientific Breakthrough Ingredients
Anti aging means you stop, or reverse the aging process. This can be accomplished with the proper anti aging wrinkle creams, and/or proper use of vitamins to relieve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Around midlife, the most sought after concept is to get older without looking older, or to become successful at the anti aging process and look younger every day (that would be a perfect world!)
There are many sensible life style choices that you can make that will help prevent the skin from wrinkling prematurely.....like not smoking, not drinking alcohol, wearing protective clothing, wearing sunglasses and using a sun block with a SPF of 15 or better.
Most dermatologists recommend a diet that is high in whole grains, fruit and vegetables for preventing or at least prolonging the appearance of wrinkles in the skin.
By the way, did you know that when the eye sees a wrinkle, it's actually just seeing the shadow created by the wrinkle? That makes me think that the best anti aging cream a person could buy would have an ingredient that refracts light so other people's eyes can't see your wrinkles (and neither can you)!
There are also vitamins that will keep your face looking younger than your years, and you should take a good multivitamin everyday in addition to the following:
Vitamin C: If you really want to have beautiful unlined and unwrinkled skin well into your later adult years, you should be certain that you get at least 500 mg of Vitamin C everyday. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. It is also the stuff that develops connective tissue, which keeps the skin more elastic and less prone to wrinkles.
Vitamin C is also important for anti aging skin care as it aids in the formation of collagen. Unfortunately, collagen is touted in most skin care products as the best anti aging cream you can use. I say unfortunately because collagen is manufactured inside the body and is a very BIG molecule - applying it to the outside of the body has no effect because the molecule cannot penetrate the skin.
Vitamin E helps Vitamins A and C more easily absorb. It also provides natural protection from ultraviolet rays.
Selenium: Selenium is a trace mineral but an essential one for maintaining healthy anti aging skin because it consumes free radicals caused by sun damage.
There are natural herbs included in some of the best anti aging creams, but again, you want to be careful what you use. Dermatologist warn that most anti-aging and anti-wrinkle skin care products, even from the most expensive lines, contain irritants and inflammatory ingredients like peppermint, lemon, camphor, menthol, coltsfoot, arnica, and so on. All these ingredients further contribute to forming lines, wrinkles, age-spots and dark circles.
So, be sure to check your anti aging wrinkle creams and make sure they do not include the above named harmful ingredients. And, good luck with your venture back in time.
"Find out How A-List Hollywood Actors, Celebrities, Super-Models And Even...European Royalty... Use A Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery To Keep Their Skin Looking Young, Beautiful, And Age-Free Without Cosmetic Injections Or Plastic Surgery!" http://www.ahealthstop.com
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By Evelyn Grazini
Around midlife, the most sought after concept is to get older without looking older, or to become successful at the anti aging process and look younger every day (that would be a perfect world!)
There are many sensible life style choices that you can make that will help prevent the skin from wrinkling prematurely.....like not smoking, not drinking alcohol, wearing protective clothing, wearing sunglasses and using a sun block with a SPF of 15 or better.
Most dermatologists recommend a diet that is high in whole grains, fruit and vegetables for preventing or at least prolonging the appearance of wrinkles in the skin.
By the way, did you know that when the eye sees a wrinkle, it's actually just seeing the shadow created by the wrinkle? That makes me think that the best anti aging cream a person could buy would have an ingredient that refracts light so other people's eyes can't see your wrinkles (and neither can you)!
There are also vitamins that will keep your face looking younger than your years, and you should take a good multivitamin everyday in addition to the following:
Vitamin C: If you really want to have beautiful unlined and unwrinkled skin well into your later adult years, you should be certain that you get at least 500 mg of Vitamin C everyday. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. It is also the stuff that develops connective tissue, which keeps the skin more elastic and less prone to wrinkles.
Vitamin C is also important for anti aging skin care as it aids in the formation of collagen. Unfortunately, collagen is touted in most skin care products as the best anti aging cream you can use. I say unfortunately because collagen is manufactured inside the body and is a very BIG molecule - applying it to the outside of the body has no effect because the molecule cannot penetrate the skin.
Vitamin E helps Vitamins A and C more easily absorb. It also provides natural protection from ultraviolet rays.
Selenium: Selenium is a trace mineral but an essential one for maintaining healthy anti aging skin because it consumes free radicals caused by sun damage.
There are natural herbs included in some of the best anti aging creams, but again, you want to be careful what you use. Dermatologist warn that most anti-aging and anti-wrinkle skin care products, even from the most expensive lines, contain irritants and inflammatory ingredients like peppermint, lemon, camphor, menthol, coltsfoot, arnica, and so on. All these ingredients further contribute to forming lines, wrinkles, age-spots and dark circles.
So, be sure to check your anti aging wrinkle creams and make sure they do not include the above named harmful ingredients. And, good luck with your venture back in time.
"Find out How A-List Hollywood Actors, Celebrities, Super-Models And Even...European Royalty... Use A Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery To Keep Their Skin Looking Young, Beautiful, And Age-Free Without Cosmetic Injections Or Plastic Surgery!" http://www.ahealthstop.com
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By Evelyn Grazini
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