Let’s face it, we live in a world that moves at breakneck speed that keeps many of us running all day long. It may often keep you burning the midnight oil as well with not enough time left for relaxation or recuperative sleep. Being attached to nonstop technology that offers a continuous stream of texts, … Read more
December is the time of year of many holiday celebrations that involves eating more food than usual. Special holiday sweets – cookies, candies, cakes, and pies – are always part of the merrymaking that most people look forward to creating and eating. It helps draw our attention to a disease that limits thousands of Americans … Read more
We all love to eat, but unfortunately everything we love to eat has some traces of sugar in it. Sugar is not always a bad thing. All our cells and organs depend on it, including our muscles and brain, and it serves as an important source of energy. Although we can’t exist without it, there is a darker side to sugar. When consumed in certain forms or in excess, sugar has damaging effects on our health. In particular, high insulin levels, a risk factor for diabetes, are closely related to sugar. Let’s take a closer look at what this food does to the body.