Health news 1 June, 2014.
Do you enjoy reading about health as much as I do?
Here are links to a few health and nutrition related articles I was reading today. Click on the links for the full article and to read them from the source. Hope you find them interesting.
Lyndal @ Lean Green and Healthy
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Exercise Snacks Control Diabetes Levels Better
This article was originally published on Health Central
All of us snack on food from time when we’re hungry and hope that it wouldn’t raise our blood sugar too much. But I wonder how many of us take “exercise snacks.” New studies on food and exercise snacks point us in different directions. Food snacking may not be what it’s cracked up to be, and I will report on that study soon. But a new concept of exercise snacking is showing that brief but intense exercise before meals can help us manage our diabetes better.
See more at: http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/169371/exercise-control-diabetes#sthash.TKEcX93Q.dpuf
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A smooth(ie) way to ensure nutrient sufficiency
This article was originally published on Diabetes Counselling Online
As suggested by a member of the Diabetes Counselling Online Diabetes Weight Matters closed Facebook group, today’s blog is on the topic of ‘smoothies’. It’s very timely as this being the week before Christmas (only 2 days to go!!) as so many of us are short on time.
Smoothies are a great topic to chat about because they can involve ingredients from all the major food groups, they’re convenient and easy to make, as well as being both nutritious and delicious. In today’s blog I’ll cover how they can help you meet your dietary guidelines in certain food groups as well as providing a few recipe ideas to get you started if you like the idea.
See more at: http://www.diabetescounselling.com.au/uncategorized/a-smoothie-way-to-ensure-nutrient-sufficiency-over-christmas/#sthash.aX45txiX.dpuf
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Coco-loco
This article was originally published on GI News
When does a regular food become a super food? When it has lots of dough spent on promotion. And the over-hyped, “super” food of the moment is coconut: the Kardashian of the food world due to abundant self-promotion. Its uber-cool aura has now drifted from the health nuts to normal folk who are apparently caught; hook, line and sinker.
I love coconut for its flavour, texture and versatility in the kitchen. What I hate is amateur nutritionists encouraging coconut oil in everything because “it helps lose weight”, and the shameless marketers and their misleading advertising and PR. If I see another dodgy, unfounded, exaggerated and pseudo-scientific claim about the superiority of anything to do with coconut I think I’ll scream.
See more at: http://ginews.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/nicoles-taste-of-health.html
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Fast Weight Loss May Mean Muscle Loss
This article was originally published on Web MD
If you lose weight too fast, you lose more muscle than when you shed excess pounds more slowly, a small study says.
The researchers put 25 participants on a five-week very-low-calorie diet of just 500 calories per day. Another 22 volunteers went on a 12-week low-calorie diet of 1,250 calories per day.
The investigators found that right after the end of their diets, both groups had similar levels of weight loss. The average weight loss was a little over 19 pounds among those on the very-low-calorie diet and just under 19 pounds among those on the low-calorie diet.
See more at: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20140529/fast-weight-loss-may-mean-muscle-loss
Here are links to a few health and nutrition related articles I was reading today. Click on the links for the full article and to read them from the source. Hope you find them interesting.
Lyndal @ Lean Green and Healthy
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Exercise Snacks Control Diabetes Levels BetterThis article was originally published on Health Central
All of us snack on food from time when we’re hungry and hope that it wouldn’t raise our blood sugar too much. But I wonder how many of us take “exercise snacks.” New studies on food and exercise snacks point us in different directions. Food snacking may not be what it’s cracked up to be, and I will report on that study soon. But a new concept of exercise snacking is showing that brief but intense exercise before meals can help us manage our diabetes better.
See more at: http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/169371/exercise-control-diabetes#sthash.TKEcX93Q.dpuf
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A smooth(ie) way to ensure nutrient sufficiency
This article was originally published on Diabetes Counselling Online
As suggested by a member of the Diabetes Counselling Online Diabetes Weight Matters closed Facebook group, today’s blog is on the topic of ‘smoothies’. It’s very timely as this being the week before Christmas (only 2 days to go!!) as so many of us are short on time.Smoothies are a great topic to chat about because they can involve ingredients from all the major food groups, they’re convenient and easy to make, as well as being both nutritious and delicious. In today’s blog I’ll cover how they can help you meet your dietary guidelines in certain food groups as well as providing a few recipe ideas to get you started if you like the idea.
See more at: http://www.diabetescounselling.com.au/uncategorized/a-smoothie-way-to-ensure-nutrient-sufficiency-over-christmas/#sthash.aX45txiX.dpuf
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Coco-loco
This article was originally published on GI News
When does a regular food become a super food? When it has lots of dough spent on promotion. And the over-hyped, “super” food of the moment is coconut: the Kardashian of the food world due to abundant self-promotion. Its uber-cool aura has now drifted from the health nuts to normal folk who are apparently caught; hook, line and sinker.I love coconut for its flavour, texture and versatility in the kitchen. What I hate is amateur nutritionists encouraging coconut oil in everything because “it helps lose weight”, and the shameless marketers and their misleading advertising and PR. If I see another dodgy, unfounded, exaggerated and pseudo-scientific claim about the superiority of anything to do with coconut I think I’ll scream.
See more at: http://ginews.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/nicoles-taste-of-health.html
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Fast Weight Loss May Mean Muscle Loss
This article was originally published on Web MD
If you lose weight too fast, you lose more muscle than when you shed excess pounds more slowly, a small study says.The researchers put 25 participants on a five-week very-low-calorie diet of just 500 calories per day. Another 22 volunteers went on a 12-week low-calorie diet of 1,250 calories per day.
The investigators found that right after the end of their diets, both groups had similar levels of weight loss. The average weight loss was a little over 19 pounds among those on the very-low-calorie diet and just under 19 pounds among those on the low-calorie diet.
See more at: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20140529/fast-weight-loss-may-mean-muscle-loss
